Prayer: Communicating with the God

‘Prayer’ is the way of life in all the religions of the world. Every culture has certain rituals related to show the gratitude towards the God. Prayers are done daily but still we find people who say that they do not know when the God responds to their prayers.

What is prayer? Does the recitation of certain scriptures and stanza work?

These are the questions which have often boggled my mind.

Around 10 years back when I was passing through a rough patch of my life, I found prayers to be the strongest way to anchor myself in that situation. Yes, I relied on the ritual recitation of the certain stanzas from the religious literature. It was a guidance or a discovery, I could not make it out now, I started to talk to the deity I was worshiping those days. This communication started as if I talk to somebody in person. This communication started to prolong could go for more than 40 to 45 mins sometimes. I was saying things as clear as I could. Sometimes, I still remember, I fought with that higher energy present in the form of deity. I cried, shouted, pleaded and even asked favors. Gradually I started feeling an energy coming in me which gave me some guidance. That guidance was all from inside, and yes, the situation started to move towards a solution, and finally I got direction in 2006.

The above incidence gave me a firm belief that, along with our religious rituals and ethos, communication is must. Of course, the religious rituals have deeper meanings which work, but communication with the Higher Energies adds a booster to it. It is actually the transmission of our thoughts to the universe. When we address it to higher energy (god/creator/deity) as per our religious/cultural belief, we have such a firm belief about the solution that, it works to attract the solution out of the blue. We call it a miracle or grace of the almighty. It works meta-physically. It is also true, even if we can do it by full concentration without associating to any religious belief, it will work.

Prayer is the process of aligning us to the universal energy which is positive. That is why; we have systems in religions which advocate prayers for many times a day. Islam has the system of prayers (Namaz) for five times. Same way Hinduism has Surya Pooja for three times a day. All religions advocate worship/prayers for a few times a day. All these disciplines are the ways to induce the positive energy and align the human brain with the Higher Energies.  

The good part is, all of us do it at some point or other, but never do it knowingly as the part of our schedule of the prayer.

 In my practice of astrology, I added this aspect while prescribing remedies to the people. All those who followed communication along with the ritual, got good results to their problem.

The motive of sharing this here is not to challenge any belief system. It is just to add an aspect that, communicative prayers add a new dimension to our own faith and strengthens it.

Have a week, full of trust and faith in the creator, ahead...

Anurodh

Krisa Advisory Service