Prayer is for the mind what food is for the body

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Prayer is not the pronouncing of words. Prayer is the yearning one

experiences to awaken the divinity latent in the heart. A heart without

words is far more precious than words without a heart. Words cascade

from the tongue but they are mere froth...Prayer must emerge from the

effect to the cause. The individual self has to yearn for the Supreme

Self. It must emerge from a pure heart. Prayer must be clean both on

the outside and the inside. Prayer should not arise out of the tongue,

as music rises out of a gramophone record. When the song does not come

from your depth, when you are not involved in it, how can it draw God

unto you? Your self must achieve confidence. Then, that self-confidence

will lead to self-sacrifice and self-realisation.