Month: September 2016

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – POWER OF PRAYER

THE POWER OF PRAYER

 

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GOD HIMSELF …………………………………

Get up early in the morning and repeat some prayers. Pray in any manner as you like.  Be as simple as a child.  Open the chambers of your heart.  You will get everything.  Discard all types of bad thoughts.  Pray fervently now, start from this very moment.

Prayer can do miracles.  Pray from the bottom of your heart.  Cultivate a meek receptive attitude of mind.  Prayer with such an attitude of mind is, at once heard and responded to by GOD.  You must have a strong conviction in the omnipresence and omnipotence of God.

Prayer is the effort of man to commune with the Lord.  Prayer is a mighty spiritual force.  Prayer frees the devotee from any form of fear.  Prayer keeps the mind in tune with God.   He who prays regularly, has already started the spiritual journey towards the everlasting peace.

 

 

 

Food for thought

Success

The whole secret of real peace, true happiness and real success is faith in Self-confidence or GOD.

When we will come to have faith in the grace of God and begin to act in conformity with the Divine Will, all the Divine forces will start helping us and success will kneel-down before us and court us.

When faith in God develops in us, we will feel that God is shouldering the entire responsibility of our well-being, immediate as well as future, that He is guarding us against every chance of a fall.  Then a natural sense of fearlessness and carefreeness will dawn on us.

Sakti Upasana

 

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A devotee wanted to pray, “O Bhavani, please bestow on me, Your self, a compassionate glance”.   So he began with the words “Bhavani tvam”.  So eager was the Goddess to fulfil Her devotee’s wish that She did not realize that the devotee’s pause after “tvam”, meaning “You”, was only the interval between successive words Taking the request as complete, She immediately granted him “Bhavani-tvam” or the state of being Bhavani: that is, She made him one with Herself.  Bhagavatpada has stated this in His Soundaryalahari.