PRAYER: AN IMPORTANT PART OF SEEKING
Prayer is an important component of our life especially if you are a seeker. Just like breathing, prayer becomes a very important part of you. Prayer just becomes you! I am not saying to you, for you. This means that one part of you should become a prayer.
Prayer is very important component, very important part of your life,
especially if you are seeker. But you always need to know the right context and understanding you need to hold during prayer.
When you pray to a deity or Guru have this context: I am praying to the source where you and me are one and the same.
I do not know whether that source is here or there, because in the beginning when you are too much inside, the source will be outside. Slowly, slowly when you start becoming lighter and lighter, the source will move inside.
In the beginning when you are too much occupied inside, the source where you and the Guru or God meet will be outside. Because you are too much inside, how can the source be here? But, slowly, slowly when you become lighter and lighter, more and more have completion, the source moves inside.
So pray, 'Oh the source, where you and me are one and the same, I pray to you, you make this into reality.' Whatever you want to say, say it.
In this way, you will never feel cheated. If you have too much incompletion inside you, naturally the source will be on the Guru's being. If there is less incompletion, more completion in you, the source will start moving towards you. When you become completely complete, the source will be centered on you.
So you don't even have to worry where the source is. Just say, 'Oh the source, where 'me and you' are one and the same, make this prayer into reality.' Ask for whatever you want to make it into reality.
You can also put a footnote, 'if something I am asking is not right for me, then give me the intelligence to develop myself' or you can also say, 'even if you think it is not right, I want only this..' You have a right. All I am asking you is: have the right understanding so that the prayer becomes a beautiful process for you to experience Oneness, Advaita.
Whether we understand or not, catch it or not, the reality is SO'HAM ASMI. Whether you got it or not the reality is SOH'AM ASMI, I Am He.
In this way, your every moment of prayer will be a process for you to achieve Oneness, Living Enlightenment. Go on praying, even if you have not got what you wanted, you will get what HE wanted. Prayers should be put in the right context.
Your life should be a long prayer from the context of SO'HAM ASMI. From the wrong context, prayer will always be painful. With the right context, prayer can be an amazing process for Oneness. Prayer can be amazing spiritual process f or you to experience Oneness.
Never ever a prayer uttered from the right context goes to waste or unheard. Never think, never doubt, it goes waste or unheard. You can shake the sun and you can move the moon, with prayers, you are not just a developed version of a monkey.
Prayer from the right context will directly lead you to Enlightenment without any of the feeling of being cheated. If you have wrong context about prayer, then only will you feel cheated. 'Oh I prayed for ten years for this, He did not give it to me.' When you pray from the right context, He may not give what you asked for, He would have given Himself to you.
Remember the right context of prayer and pray. He will give Himself to you. The words uttered during prayer
gets bolted in your muscle-memory, the context you hold gets bolted in your bio-memory. Whatever gets bolted in your bio-memory becomes Reality.