Need For Spirituality
Saints’ Blessings
to the Sanatan
Clarification of Doubts
Did You Know?
Messages to Seekers
Practical Guidance
Spiritual Practice for Awakening Spiritual Emotion
Children's Corner
Activities Worldwide
Religious Festivals
Implied Meanings
Spiritual Practice for Destroying Ego
Spiritual Experiences
Experiment of the
Subtle Dimension
Saints' Quotes
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(Continued from Issue 217)
To awaken spiritual emotion rapidly, initially
one needs to make constant efforts at the level of the mind and
intellect. In the last Issue, 217, a few examples of how The Lord
helps when one prays with spiritual emotion were discussed. In
this Issue we will discuss some errors in prayer.
Errors in prayer
A. Praying to overcome worldly problems: Seekers should certainly pray to the
Guru to guide them appropriately in overcoming certain exceptional worldly
problems, which pose obstacles to spiritual
practice. However, they should
not ask for solutions to day-to-day problems, because this unnecessarily wastes
spiritual practice and draws the seeker away from his prime objective of God-realization.
B. Praying without making proper use of willful action
(kriyaman): When it is
necessary to pay attention to willful action, one should not trouble the Guru
unnecessarily with prayer. Once, in the Sanatan’s ashram in Dhamse (Goa,
India), it was decided to perform aarti (arati) along with a pre-recorded aarti
hymn, to help the aarti occur with spiritual emotion. At that time, we noticed
that that the aarti on the cassette was not sounding right. It began playing
properly after seekers prayed. Actually, the audiocassette was lying around unused
(gathering dust) for several days. Also, since the cassette was of an inferior
quality, it should have been checked before playing. But without doing all this,
seekers immediately prayed for it to play properly. Here seekers’ (use
of) willful action was incorrect, and God had to spend His energy to salvage
the situation.
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