Important Divine facts about PRAYER– Let us know how divine power work or act when we do prayer –
There are three major things are considered for the completion of prayer – the spiritual level, concentration of purpose and deeds. This is the only reason that the spiritual path of a person is determined in accordance to his emotional, intellectual and spiritual level. Choosing a wrong path also does not yield immediate success.
Ignorance towards the Divine rules – Just as to live in this world, a kind of special arrangement is essential, in the same way, certain special rules are determined to run this world in a smooth manner. Say, savoring the fruits of action. Because of these rules, knowingly or unknowingly, all beings attain the fruits of their action without fail. Now if any change is to be brought in the fruits of these actions, special rules for that system have been set which is mandatory to follow. Such as to perform special prayers at the appointed time and place, to accept one’s own errors and to modify them, to stay modest and calm stay in every circumstance, to have complete faith in God and to be happy and so on. But man’s greatest deficiency is that he changes divine rules change according to his own requirement. This is the fundamental cause of failure of prayer.
Sometimes God takes more time to fulfill our wishes so that we could reconsider our own decision. Whatever seems to benefit us from our limited perspective, we pray only with the purpose of that achievement. But God knows the profit and loss in true sense. If a particular wish of a person is likely to harm a person, society and the family, such prayers remain unanswered.
The qualitative and quantitative amount of our positive deeds is not that sufficient to neutralize the bad deeds of our previous birth followed by the fulfillment of our will.
In order to obtain a position or a thing, it is essential to have that qualification or ability. Most people consider their ability more than the reality and ignore their errors. This ego turns a person away from God. In contrast, some people make themselves so vulnerable and sad that their confidence always remains shaken. In such case they are not able to surrender themselves to God completely because of their differences with each person and situation. This act of discomfiting alienates them from God.
Such a person who is not conscious of his duties, does his task by keeping variation in mind and practice, cannot ever please God. A person who prays and shows diligence both, with passion, the God accepts his prayer and provides pleasant fruit of his labor.
Ignoring the causes of the problem – most people neither care to discover the profound causes of the problem nor they are interested to move forward on the right path by being indifferent to God. If someone is being told the depth of the causes of the problem, it scares him. Otherwise it is necessary to know the depth of the problem, so that the barriers as well as need and intensity of measures can be estimated that comes in the way of solving them. In addition, the time required in solving the problem can also be considered, by way of which one can hold tolerance. If the estimated time is known, the mind is not distressed by the repetitive delays in the receipt of the fruit.
Prayer done with fear of greed, prayer done with lack of devotion and faith and prayer done without the guidance of the master, such prayer is not able show complete efficacy.
Even if a person alongwith full devotion, faith, perseverance and concentration, is able to connect with God and obtains energy by way of chanting, sacred fire, tenacity, prayers, rituals etc. for the right reason, but still if it is not conserved in a proper manner, that leads to the decay of that energy as well. The existence of any one reason from several reasons such as to condemn anyone, to hope to gain from anyone, to understand oneself excellent, to have more amount of anger in conduct the amount of anger, to use of harsh words, to curse own fate constantly, to remain unsatisfied, unable to accept the circumstances, to be distressed by keep on thinking of other things, to give credit of failure to others and take the credit for the success itself, to show bad behavior toward others by consuming alcohol and such other things, leads to energy decay.
Why is prayer required–
God keeps complete information regarding our requirements and desires. He keeps our authority of selection independent. This is the only reason that he does not appear for assistance without addressing Him. The devotees who are fully devoted to God and does not pray for any particular desire, God provides protection to such exclusive devotees and fulfills their requirement without a word.
