MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES AND SUPER SAINT - SADGURU SAI NATH

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The Place of Prayer in Spiritual Life

Without Prayer, the life of man is as dry and dark as that of beasts. Our

worldly life often becomes poisonous with duality, malice, jealousy, deceit,

competition, envy and crookedness. We burn ourselves by the ambers of

anger. We run after thousand and one objects of quenching our thirst for

pleasure. We lose the sense of proportion and discrimination, lose sight of

real inward happiness and fall down as pray to the objects of senses. The

mind that thinks of mundane dross objects, itself becomes of their dross

nature. It is necessary to wipe away this cross. That is the beginning of

spiritual life. Desire, pride, thirst for joy and pleasure, lust are to be

killed. The beautiful qualities of the Soul are to be awakened and

developed. Prayer is the best method, the best helpful instrument for this

purpose, When a man considers that God is always before him, and accepts his

actual faults and cries out for relieving him out of the dross, he starts

getting an equilibrium and a peace never tasted before, humility, pity,

forgiveness, compassion to take full possession of the mind.

To be free of egoism, one has to surrender his self to the Greater Self,

which is omnipotent. That Self is God, the Being- Moving-Joyful. The

Sat-Chit-Anand Ishwara. When in all humility, the mind surrenders its

activities to this Universal Action of God, it loses its pride of

separateness and the dawn on divine compassion in all its simplicity takes

place.

In prayer, we remember the qualities of God, which are pity, love, charity,

control, good action, good conduct and the highest bliss. Contemplation

over these qualities manifesting in the Universe as attributes of God,

creates in our mind a steadfast faith in Him and the dirty thought trash is

thrown out like dead leaves in a great tempest.

Prayer is a system of conversation with our Beloved God. In prayer, the

one who prays speaks with his own heart and the Universal Heart listens.

Prayer is a way to be unified with the power of the Atma, which creates,

sustains and protects the entire Universe endlessly and ceaselessly. A real

devoted prayer is heard by him and full response comes from Him for it.

Prayer is essential for spiritual enhancement. The dualities of desire can

be discarded only through real prayer. True prayer relieves the mind of

its burdens, awakens the knowledge of the true and brings light in the

darkened hearts.

Prayer is therefore a “Must” in our daily life. It is the bread of our

spirit.

 

 

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