My Dear friends,
Most
of pray to God or some like me to God-particle, don’t we? Well what is
prayer? Can it have a commercial or
utilitarian motive? Well, let’s all walk-the-talk with the friendly sage we
happen to know.
Ravi: Happy evening Shri.
GRK. Kindly make us understand what is the meaning and essence of a ‘prayer’?
What is not a prayer?
GRK: Happy evening to you
and to our friends. Well, Prayer is not a bargain. It does not have utilitarian
purpose or commercial motive behind it.
Ravi:
Awesome. But many of us pray to primarily seek favors from God or God-men/women!
Prayer is a song of
sublimation
GRK: Ravi, Prayer is a
communion with your higher self or nature or God. It is the consecration of
yourself to the unknown, to the nature or to the God. Prayer is a song of sublimation. Unfortunately, many of us have
made it so mechanical, so dry and so routine-like that the prayer lost its
thrill, its joy and it’s ecstasy. Many of us carry our daily anxieties, care
and cravings to the prayer hall. As a result, we fool ourselves that we are praying
but actually we do not pray.
Ravi: Shouldn’t we
surrender ourselves and self and society imposed image when we pray?
What is the meaning of a TRUE
prayer and meditation?
GRK: Prayer is a
reflection of our self, nay an introspection of our self. It is and unfolding,
rather surrendering of oneself and one’s ego before the altar of the higher
self. Prayer is a highest sacrifice, nay, a renouncing; it is a quest for
identifying with, nay merging with universal spirit or cosmic soul.
Ravi: Many a time I try to
pray, I get disturbed by external sounds. That’s why I don’t pray in an
organized way.
GRK: Ravi, you need not
have an organized set-up to pray. That’s a skewed notion. A true
prayer needs a ‘still’ brain. A ‘still’ brain is a vacuum state of brain or
a zero frame of brain. A ‘still’ brain is a meditative mind. Highest form of
meditation is prayer. This prayer itself
is an ecstasy or bliss.
However, a
chattering brain or a roaming brain like yours, full of strivings, desires and
conflicts cannot pray. Nor does praying with a material purpose behind it. No
prayer with a commercial or material longing, is a true a ‘holy’ prayer.
Ravi: The corpus collosum connects the RIGHT and
the LEFT brain. If we want to still the brain, we do know that meditation
helps keeps the corpus collosum ‘still’ so that both the brains are made
‘still’. How about this new-but-no-new understanding from brain scientists
perspective?
GRK: Awesome understanding
of understanding of meditation from the brain perspective. Neuro science is
evolving and many of us cannot understand. However we can experience.
How did our elders pray,THEN?
GRK: Our elders prayed that
“Sarve jana sukhino bhavanthu.“ “Let happiness and prosperity be to all”.
That prayer reflected the highest concern and the greatest compassion to all,
which made it a holy consecration. Thus, Summum-bonum or the substance of prayer
is ‘peace’ and ‘bliss’.
What is samadhi state?
Ravi: What is Samadhi state,
THEN. Is it something when we get to the grave?
GRK: Not at all. This
perpetual ‘bliss’ through ‘stilling’ the brain is Samadhi.
Thank
you for this understanding Shri. GRK. Shall endeavor to ‘still’ my brain to at-least
10 minutes to start with! My prayer
would be “Let Universal Love and compassion
to anyone and everyone engulf this beautiful world, to make it a better place”.
With Love and
prayers for all.
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