Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Radhe Krishna! I have witnessed and also experienced the power of prayer. When my elder sister's husband was stuck in Burma for three years from 1942 to 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Burma during the second world war, and his whereabouts were totally unknown, my sister, who was hardly 15 years old, used to get extremely worried, and getting hysterical everyday. Our relatives, instead of consoling us and offering help, used to tell my father that my b-in-law from whom there was no news for 3 years, could as well be taken to be dead in the war, and advised my father to get my sister married again to somebody else. My father who was a Sanskrit scholar and a firm believer in God, asked my sister to repeat with wholehearted devotion, the prayer to Bhagavathi, and explained the meaning to all of us. And we were all repeating this prayer along with my sister all the time. I was hardly 10 years old at that time, but even today, remember that advice. The prayer was, " SARVA-MANGALA MANGALYE SIVE SARVARTTHA SADHAKE SARANYE THRYAMBAKE GOURI, NARAYANI NAMOSTHU THEI. SARANAGATA DEENARTTHA PARITHRANA PARAYANE SARVASYA AARTTHI HAREI DEVI, NARAYANI NAMOSTHU THEI " My b-in-law's message that he was all right, sent every month from Burma came to us by post as a bunch of letters by end of 1945 and the latest one, a week later, as soon as the communication system was resumed after the war He himself came back in December 1945 or so and they lived happily. My b-in-law is still living at 96 years of age, although my sister has passed away, some years ago. I later realised that this prayer is part of the Ekadasa addhyaya in the Devi Sapta-sati, and I repeat it with devotion along with other prayers to Lord Krishna and other gods, and I have found that this prayer has helped me in times of need, whener I used to be in trouble, whether during my working life or even now. It does not matter to which God one prays, but what is important is that the prayer should be with ardent devotion One can unload all his worries to te Lord and sleep peacefully. One can pray with desires to be fulfilled or as a thanksgiving to the Lord when He has granted a wish, or without any desires, which is called, " Nishkama Bhakti " . It is said that " Nishkama-bhakti " is the best form of prayer, but such devotion can arise in te mind only after all mundane desires cease to be aroused and the mind is free from all impurities of thought. Love KVG .. Rajesh Vasudevan wrote: >I found this question in Answers and found it extremely intersting. I penned a few a lines as my opinion and thought that i should share it with you all...Let me know how do you feel about it. > How have you experienced the power of prayer in your life? > In an increasingly stress-ridden world with growing religiosity, more and more people are turning to prayer. Often when you are grateful or helpless you turn to prayer. How have you experienced the power of prayer? > > > Rajesh V > > > Prayer is like a personal conservation for me. I fix no time or any fixed routine to " talk " to my creator. There is no plan, i mean any pre-planned agenda. It comes spontaneously. Like a child, who rushes back home from school to narrate to his dear ones, all that happened that day narrate everything to god. That's prayer for me. I don't deny that i ask him for material comforts, but i do that only after i feel i have the right to do so. >There is one thing to be noted here, i have no fixed place to sit and talk. I choose the one i feel is OK. I close my eyes for a while so that i become one with HIM. Then i ensure that there is nothing that interrupts this conversation. It might take a few minutes to few hours: it all depends on how much i have to talk and what i have to tell. Once this is over, i feel i am reborn-gathering immense strength, courage and a strong will to endure-for a new cause. I feel so light, like a song, like a running stream, like spring water, like a lamp that glows singularly in darkness, like a newborn... >I cannot even think of a day without this personal conversation. I need to tell HIM, thank HIM, and ask HIM...it goes on... >Prayer, for me, is a realisation of what I am, what i have to be, and what i shouldn't be... > > > > > > Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Answers > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Namaste everybody, Thanks to all your prayers and wishes, I am getting better after chicken pox, though it is not yet time for bath. The blisters are healing. I had a very tough time last week, but thank God, I could manage. Now the major thing is I have to do some tests next month to know about the baby for which I might be coming to Kerala, during which time I am planning to have bhajan in Guruvayoor. I will pray for all in the group. Rajeshji, The question is really interesting. Every person will have his or her own way of prayers. When I was a school going kid, my kathakali teacher who is also like a brother to me, asked me what I prayed to God when I was coming back from the temple and I told him that I prayed for good marks in the exams. Then he told me that we are not supposed to ask anything to God. Kuchela never asked Krishna anything, but he was blessed in abundance. Since then, I try not to pray for anything, but just chant the prayers. I know Guruvayoorappan will be knowing what I need. True, a very few times in life I have prayed for something or the other which have been granted also. But after the prayers the mental peace that one gets is uncomparable with anything in the world. Jai Sree Krishna Seema --- Rajesh Vasudevan <rajeshamruth_vasudevan wrote: > I found this question in Answers and found it > extremely intersting. I penned a few a lines as my > opinion and thought that i should share it with you > all...Let me know how do you feel about it. > How have you experienced the power of prayer in > your life? > In an increasingly stress-ridden world with > growing religiosity, more and more people are > turning to prayer. Often when you are grateful or > helpless you turn to prayer. How have you > experienced the power of prayer? > > > Rajesh V > > > Prayer is like a personal conservation for me. I > fix no time or any fixed routine to " talk " to my > creator. There is no plan, i mean any pre-planned > agenda. It comes spontaneously. Like a child, who > rushes back home from school to narrate to his dear > ones, all that happened that day narrate everything > to god. That's prayer for me. I don't deny that i > ask him for material comforts, but i do that only > after i feel i have the right to do so. > There is one thing to be noted here, i have no fixed > place to sit and talk. I choose the one i feel is > OK. I close my eyes for a while so that i become one > with HIM. Then i ensure that there is nothing that > interrupts this conversation. It might take a few > minutes to few hours: it all depends on how much i > have to talk and what i have to tell. Once this is > over, i feel i am reborn-gathering immense strength, > courage and a strong will to endure-for a new cause. > I feel so light, like a song, like a running stream, > like spring water, like a lamp that glows singularly > in darkness, like a newborn... > I cannot even think of a day without this personal > conversation. I need to tell HIM, thank HIM, and ask > HIM...it goes on... > Prayer, for me, is a realisation of what I am, what > i have to be, and what i shouldn't be... > > > > > > Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - > Answers ______________________________\ ____ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Travel to find your fit. http://farechase./promo-generic-14795097 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Jai Sri Krishna!! Ulluruki bhagavaneyonnu vilichal, Kazhiyilla bhagavanu verutheyirikan. If we call Him just once with sincere devotion [like Gajendra's prayer in Gajendramoksham], He cannot sit idle even for a second. He is not judgemental as to who is calling Him but how He is called. Jai Srikrishna!! "K.V Gopalakrishna" <gopalakrishna.kv wrote: Radhe Krishna!I have witnessed and also experienced the power of prayer. When my elder sister's husband was stuck in Burma for three years from 1942 to 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Burma during the second world war, and his whereabouts were totally unknown, my sister, who was hardly 15 years old, used to get extremely worried, and getting hysterical everyday. Our relatives, instead of consoling us and offering help, used to tell my father that my b-in-law from whom there was no news for 3 years, could as well be taken to be dead in the war, and advised my father to get my sister married again to somebody else. My father who was a Sanskrit scholar and a firm believer in God, asked my sister to repeat with wholehearted devotion, the prayer to Bhagavathi, and explained the meaning to all of us. And we were all repeating this prayer along with my sister all the time. I was hardly 10 years old at that time, but even today, remember that advice.The prayer was,"SARVA-MANGALA MANGALYE SIVE SARVARTTHA SADHAKESARANYE THRYAMBAKE GOURI, NARAYANI NAMOSTHU THEI.SARANAGATA DEENARTTHA PARITHRANA PARAYANESARVASYA AARTTHI HAREI DEVI, NARAYANI NAMOSTHU THEI"My b-in-law's message that he was all right, sent every month from Burma came to us by post as a bunch of letters by end of 1945 and the latest one, a week later, as soon as the communication system was resumed after the war He himself came back in December 1945 or so and they lived happily. My b-in-law is still living at 96 years of age, although my sister has passed away, some years ago.I later realised that this prayer is part of the Ekadasa addhyaya in the Devi Sapta-sati, and I repeat it with devotion along with other prayers to Lord Krishna and other gods, and I have found that this prayer has helped me in times of need, whener I used to be in trouble, whether during my working life or even now.It does not matter to which God one prays, but what is important is that the prayer should be with ardent devotion One can unload all his worries to te Lord and sleep peacefully. One can pray with desires to be fulfilled or as a thanksgiving to the Lord when He has granted a wish, or without any desires, which is called, "Nishkama Bhakti". It is said that "Nishkama-bhakti" is the best form of prayer, but such devotion can arise in te mind only after all mundane desires cease to be aroused and the mind is free from all impurities of thought.LoveKVG.Rajesh Vasudevan wrote:>I found this question in Answers and found it extremely intersting. I penned a few a lines as my opinion and thought that i should share it with you all...Let me know how do you feel about it.> How have you experienced the power of prayer in your life? > In an increasingly stress-ridden world with growing religiosity, more and more people are turning to prayer. Often when you are grateful or helpless you turn to prayer. How have you experienced the power of prayer?> >> Rajesh V > >> Prayer is like a personal conservation for me. I fix no time or any fixed routine to "talk" to my creator. There is no plan, i mean any pre-planned agenda. It comes spontaneously. Like a child, who rushes back home from school to narrate to his dear ones, all that happened that day narrate everything to god. That's prayer for me. I don't deny that i ask him for material comforts, but i do that only after i feel i have the right to do so. >There is one thing to be noted here, i have no fixed place to sit and talk. I choose the one i feel is OK. I close my eyes for a while so that i become one with HIM. Then i ensure that there is nothing that interrupts this conversation. It might take a few minutes to few hours: it all depends on how much i have to talk and what i have to tell. Once this is over, i feel i am reborn-gathering immense strength, courage and a strong will to endure-for a new cause. I feel so light, like a song, like a running stream, like spring water, like a lamp that glows singularly in darkness, like a newborn...>I cannot even think of a day without this personal conversation. I need to tell HIM, thank HIM, and ask HIM...it goes on...>Prayer, for me, is a realisation of what I am, what i have to be, and what i shouldn't be... > > >> >> Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Answers > >Om Namo Narayanaya: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Dear Gopalakrishnaji, When I read the mail from Rajesh, I was just waiting for your reply and as expected; your recount of experiences always takes us a few steps closer to Guruvayoorappan. Om Namo Narayanaya Pravin guruvayur [guruvayur ] On Behalf Of K.V Gopalakrishna 02 April 2007 15:58 guruvayur Re: [Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] Power of Prayer Radhe Krishna! I have witnessed and also experienced the power of prayer. When my elder sister's husband was stuck in Burma for three years from 1942 to 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Burma during the second world war, and his whereabouts were totally unknown, my sister, who was hardly 15 years old, used to get extremely worried, and getting hysterical everyday. Our relatives, instead of consoling us and offering help, used to tell my father that my b-in-law from whom there was no news for 3 years, could as well be taken to be dead in the war, and advised my father to get my sister married again to somebody else. My father who was a Sanskrit scholar and a firm believer in God, asked my sister to repeat with wholehearted devotion, the prayer to Bhagavathi, and explained the meaning to all of us. And we were all repeating this prayer along with my sister all the time. I was hardly 10 years old at that time, but even today, remember that advice. The prayer was, " SARVA-MANGALA MANGALYE SIVE SARVARTTHA SADHAKE SARANYE THRYAMBAKE GOURI, NARAYANI NAMOSTHU THEI. SARANAGATA DEENARTTHA PARITHRANA PARAYANE SARVASYA AARTTHI HAREI DEVI, NARAYANI NAMOSTHU THEI " My b-in-law's message that he was all right, sent every month from Burma came to us by post as a bunch of letters by end of 1945 and the latest one, a week later, as soon as the communication system was resumed after the war He himself came back in December 1945 or so and they lived happily. My b-in-law is still living at 96 years of age, although my sister has passed away, some years ago. I later realised that this prayer is part of the Ekadasa addhyaya in the Devi Sapta-sati, and I repeat it with devotion along with other prayers to Lord Krishna and other gods, and I have found that this prayer has helped me in times of need, whener I used to be in trouble, whether during my working life or even now. It does not matter to which God one prays, but what is important is that the prayer should be with ardent devotion One can unload all his worries to te Lord and sleep peacefully. One can pray with desires to be fulfilled or as a thanksgiving to the Lord when He has granted a wish, or without any desires, which is called, " Nishkama Bhakti " . It is said that " Nishkama-bhakti " is the best form of prayer, but such devotion can arise in te mind only after all mundane desires cease to be aroused and the mind is free from all impurities of thought. Love KVG .. Rajesh Vasudevan wrote: >I found this question in Answers and found it extremely intersting. I penned a few a lines as my opinion and thought that i should share it with you all...Let me know how do you feel about it. > How have you experienced the power of prayer in your life? > In an increasingly stress-ridden world with growing religiosity, more and more people are turning to prayer. Often when you are grateful or helpless you turn to prayer. How have you experienced the power of prayer? > > > Rajesh V > > > Prayer is like a personal conservation for me. I fix no time or any fixed routine to " talk " to my creator. There is no plan, i mean any pre-planned agenda. It comes spontaneously. Like a child, who rushes back home from school to narrate to his dear ones, all that happened that day narrate everything to god. That's prayer for me. I don't deny that i ask him for material comforts, but i do that only after i feel i have the right to do so. >There is one thing to be noted here, i have no fixed place to sit and talk. I choose the one i feel is OK. I close my eyes for a while so that i become one with HIM. Then i ensure that there is nothing that interrupts this conversation. It might take a few minutes to few hours: it all depends on how much i have to talk and what i have to tell. Once this is over, i feel i am reborn-gathering immense strength, courage and a strong will to endure-for a new cause. I feel so light, like a song, like a running stream, like spring water, like a lamp that glows singularly in darkness, like a newborn... >I cannot even think of a day without this personal conversation. I need to tell HIM, thank HIM, and ask HIM...it goes on... >Prayer, for me, is a realisation of what I am, what i have to be, and what i shouldn't be... > > > > > > Here's a new way to find what you're looking for - Answers > > Om Namo Narayanaya: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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