Prayer is for the mind what food is for the body

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Prayer is for the mind what food is for the body

 

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.