Shubal's post on Prayer

[Guest guest]

Greetings Shubal,

Is this our guitar-playing, bhajan-singing Shubal from the East?

If so, nice to hear from you on this forum.

That tretise on the meaning or purpose of prayer is provocative.

It suggests a few things: that there is a mutual/reciprocal

relationship between the Creator and Us. We find ourselves in life's

circumstances, in struggle, in trouble, in confusion, in crisis, and

often times, initially, it is the crisis that takes us to the creator:

"Why"? "Why me"? "Why now"? "What do you want from me"? "What do you

want me to learn from this"? If it takes a crisis to START the

dialogue between us and our Creator, then OK. If prayer is the channel

for the dialogue to flow, both to and from the Creator, then OK. If

the Creator wants us to be Co-Creators, to take life as it comes to us,

and to transform ourselves, to change, to make ourselves more perfect,

then OK. "What IS our present circumstance" through prayer and

surrender in prayer, gets transformed (along with us) into something

more harmonious, more loving, more peaceful.

Of course, we sadhus don't wait for the crisis to start the

prayer. We can pray anywhere, anytime, anyway, and to any form of the

Creator we choose, and for any purpose that serves the good of All. Do

we? What do you think? Kamala

[Guest guest]

Kamala-ji, it is Shubal, I've been enjoying the various levels of the

group since the beginning, and I'm just now beginning to have some

fun with it...so the only prayer is for God to provide the most

appropriate next step...anything else and look out you might get

it...and the more we chant Her names the more we can find joy in that

step, whatever it entails...

 

My reply was tongue in cheek because, of course, what sense on earth

does this quote make

The Divine Plan: "Prayer is a part of the divine plan for making over

that which is into that which ought to be."

 

The whole of the Divine Plan is to make us into that which is and

there is no such thing as ought...

 

Love

 

Shubal