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The Power of Prayer By Sri Radhakrishna Swamiji

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When we recite Vishnu Sahasra Namam or say 'Namo Narayanaya', we are

saluting to the Supreme Lord with reverence and love. Even if the chanting

were mechanical, it does not matter much, as the verbal expression is

endowed with potency. Let us not doubt as to whether God hears our prayers

or not. He does and enters the scene only at the appropriate time that is

best for us.

 

A person usually looks up for God when he is in rough weather. Unable to

bear the pangs of life, he relies on a power higher than he does. Trials and

tribulations give him wisdom, strength and devotion. When my Guru, Sri

Narasimha Swamiji, was admitted in the General Hospital at Madras for a

fracture of the thigh bone, after an accidental fall in 1953, he had

converted his ward into a miniature Sai Mandir. He tolerated the pain with a

smile!

 

There is nothing wrong if a prayer starts off for one's own betterment, as

in course of time it covers his family members and later extends to his

fellow beings in society, as he begins to perceive the Lord dwelling in all

beings. Look at the gigantic Banyan tree and the sprawling branches it

spreads, as it grows. Prayers made for others, their happiness and

well-being, goodwill and peace to the world at large, are appreciated and

quickly responded to, by God, in the form of granting the devotee an

expanded awareness.

 

Surrender to God is the toughest thing to accomplish. If a person says

outwardly that he has surrendered to God's will but in day-to-day life

quarrels with everyone on petty causes, he has not understood what

'surrender' means. Look at others with God's eyes, is the instruction. We

must develop an euonymus vision in all our activities, under all

circumstances. We may fail repeatedly in this arduous task, as the old

'samskaras' would raise their ugly hoods quite often, but let us strive to

rise every time we fail.

 

Curbing the ego, therefore, forms the basic discipline when we tread on the

path of spirituality. An egotistic man is possessive and cannot bow his head

when he comes across personalities endowed with wisdom. Unless he cultivates

a loving attitude towards existence as a whole and shares a part of what he

has with others, he soon abandons his efforts in a huff.

 

One need not be a man of letters to pray. In God's vision, there is no low

or high - a prince or pauper is held in the same esteem. Patience and

perseverance of a high order are needed in cultivating this art. Let us

chant His name as Hanuman kept on chanting Rama's name always.

 

http://www.saileelas.org/magazines/saipadananda/april2002.htm#ThePowerofPray

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