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Remembrance of everything should merge into the Remembrance of One – the Ultimate
God, less is our attachment to the world; thereby we make
quick progress in spiritual life.
Prayer leads man to the path of spirituality after crossing the obstacles of materialism, Praying with sincerity love, devotion and faith ultimately takes us to higher achievements in life.
Those who bear the troubles without any murmur and only pray for strength to face them belong to a mediocre class and who accept everything as God’s wish and firmly believe that whatever happens is for their own good are true devotees.
A prayer makes sense only it if is lived. Unless they are lived, unless prayer and life become completely inter woven, prayer becomes a sort of polite madrigal which we offer to God/Master at moments when we are giving time to Him.
Very often we do not find sufficient intensity in our prayer, sufficient conviction, and sufficient faith because our despair is not deep enough.
It is said that thro’ prayer one can tap the source of spiritual power and the most powerful form of energy one can generate. It is a force as real as terrestrial gravity.
Prayer like radium is a source of luminous, self- generating energy. When we pray we link ourselves with the inexhaustible motive force which spins the Universe. Even in asking, our human deficiencies are filled and we arise strengthened and repaired. Whenever we address God in fervent prayer we change both soul and body for the better.
Unless the prayer which we intend to offer to God is important and meaningful to us first, we will not be able to present it to God. If we are inattentive to the words
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