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Selfless Prayer with Required Insight Attracts Universal Results
We know that the power of prayer is real; i.e. it invokes a response
from the Divine. It is no myth. For example,
when there is a problem in the community or collective, such as lack of
rain, we pray for the solution so that our own personal situation will
be eased. There may be some result. A better way is when our prayer is
issued for the sake of the whole community or collective, of which we
too are an individual. That prayer will be even more powerful if we
study and understand the problem from its myriad of angles, consider
every way that the solution will benefit the society, and overcome a
related personal deficiency, such as the wasting of water. Such a
universal prayer will organize the energy into a spiritual power that
will result in a universal life response solution to the problem.
(Inspired by MSS insight)
Forgetting Prayers that
Have Been Answered
We ask for a result through an intensity of prayer. When we receive its
results later on, it may strike us as a negative event or results, even
though its precisely what we asked for! We forgot our past intent, lost
in the present attachments.
Answer to Prayers
-Prayers will be answered according to our level of selfishness.
-Our prayer should not be made known to anybody. Then there will be no
room for selfishness. (MSS)
Answers to Prayer Beyond the Level
Through Which We Believe
The Divine grants our prayer
through what we believe in. One who believes in influence to get a
government job will get it through his influential contacts. Suppose one
can use money, has VIP contacts, status, etc., but disregards them and
relies ONLY on the Divine, She grants his
prayer by a procedure not in the department or life.
That is pure Grace. Devotees have received orders from the government in
defiance of the rules to the contrary. (MSS, slightly
modified)
Prayers to the
Force are Always Answered
When you pray, your prayer touches this world. That is why prayers so
far unanswered are now answered. Prayers to the Supramental Force never
fail. All prayers, without fail, are answered. (MSS)
Answers to our Prayers
As long as our needs are genuine, sincere, what we need, what we have
aspired for long, our prayers all get sanctioned. There are occasions
when we assert our ego, or are self-opinionated, or ask for something
the Divine has not approved of. That prayer never is answered, unless we
shed our ego first, remove the inner obstacles or realise our prayer is
directly against the Divine's expressed wishes.
The very first condition is that the Grace acts on its own conditions,
conditions of truth, not according to the demands of the human Mind
which is false. To us our falsehood appears as Truth. We take our
desires as our wants. Duties go before rights, we simply ignore then. It
never strikes us. Only that we know our prayer is not answered. Surely
it will be answered when you cease to be irrational and do not assert
your ego. (MSS, somewhat modified)
Conditions for Our Prayer to be Answered
There are honest prayers
sometimes not answered by the Spirit. Are we to understand that the
Spirit also has its own limitations? No, the Spirit has no such
limitations.
Why, then, is the prayer not answered? That is a wider philosophical
question which I shall not attempt to answer here. Let me confine myself
to saying how the Spirit can be made to respond. As a
mantra yields its full power to perfect pronunciation, the Spirit
moves into action when TRUTH in the prayer is utterly truthful. The
medium for spiritual power to act in life answering our right prayers
that are sincere is truthfulness in word and deed. Such a truthfulness
is sometimes called SINCERITY, sometimes PURITY. The Spirit never fails.
Its power is unfailing. How can God fail, especially when He is coming
towards you, anxious to relate to you? Still, for God to act, the
conditions must be fulfilled. God acts unconditionally in the lives
of those who have surrendered unconditionally. (MSS,
slightly modified)
Rules for Prayer
to Overcome an Affliction
If someone suffers from an affliction and the suggestion for prayer to
the Force to remedy it is scorned, it will cancel the possibility of the
cure. If you pray for the end of another's affliction, and it has been
scorned by others around him, then you may suffer the same affliction
thereafter.
Some
Prayers are Answered; Others are Not
As for prayer, no hard and fast rule can be laid down.
Some prayers are answered, all are not.
You may ask, why should not then all prayers be answered?
But why should they be? it is not a machinery: put a prayer in
the slot and get your asking. Besides,
considering all the contradictory things
mankind is praying for at the same moment, God
would be in a rather awkward hole if he had to grant all of them;
it wouldn't do. (Sri
Aurobindo)
Birth of the Universal
Being
A
universal prayer with the requisite knowledge enables one to begin to
become a universal being.
Supports for One's Inner
Method
Prayer, consecration and surrender are central methods. Once one is
adopted, there are many things that can be done to augment the result.
Implementing values like physical cleanliness, vital calmness, social
harmony, psychological goodwill, absolute truthfulness, purity of
motive, etc. all create conditions for the Force to descend in greater
measure when you call. (MSS)
Consecrated
Problem without Thought Enables Vast Response from Life
An intense call or consecration to the Higher Power of a very difficult
or separate situation will almost always bring results. Here the mind
and heart knows what it wishes to overcome. Sometimes however, such an
intense prayer without any thought can bring an even greater
response. E.g. an individual can have several straining issues
simultaneously, and is so overwhelmed by problems, that he prays for
help, though he cannot think individually or collectively what the
problems are. In no time he receives a great response to his
consecration. What has happened in such a case is that mind's
interference has been removed, enabling the Spirit to act largely on the
whole of the issue. The meddling mind is rendered powerless to
interfere, leaving the entire field free for the Spirit to act, which it
does in overwhelming abundance. (Paraphrase of MSS)
The Power of
the Hopeless Moment to Use the Force
This is really a hopeless MOMENT. Mother says a hopeless moment is the
best occasion to call Her as She can act most powerfully. At such
moments, we believe in nothing. Our beliefs that stand in the way of the
Force working effectively have now deserted us. (MSS)
MSS Articles on
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