Prayer

Looking within

What is prayer?

Prayer is a focusing on one's internal world to the exclusion of the external. Simply put, prayer is a form of meditation. The form of this meditation can vary greatly from agu to agu. Religions often teach a particular form of meditation which they usually suggest will bring the agu closer to God, salvation or enlightenment.

In the charismatic Christian discipline prayer is often regarded as a way of getting what you want. Ask God and he will grant. Really, what a selfish little deceit.

In the Hare Krishna faith prayer becomes a mantra, the incessant recitation of which is supposed to bring enlightenment. Brain washing yes, enlightenment no!

Similar brain-washing techniques of constant repetition of mantra or dogma are used by other religions, for example the Raja Yoga and Divine Light faiths teach that holding the happy feeling in your conscious aspect will bring your world into alignment with happiness.

I must stress that any form of incessant control of one's consciousness is extremely dangerous and is almost certain to lead to harm. We are free and uniquely variable intellects, we live to explore this world with our minds and bodies. We are here to enjoy and experience, not to dictate! By forcing ourselves to think in a very narrow, artificial manner we become robotic and relinquish our finest quality which is our humanity.

Most religions teach that in focusing on one's soul and speaking one's heart that one is talking to God. Certainly one can feel that one is doing something important and that someone is listening. Many believers also will swear that by praying for something it will happen. What you are really doing in this form of meditation is praying to yourself in your most truthful and solemn aspect, praying to your Uru in fact. Someone is listening to your prayer: you! You hear every world you utter or think.

Prayer MAY sometimes bring results, especially when those results are within your power to grant. By asking God for something you will be more on the lookout for a way to achieve it than would otherwise be the case. If you are a devout believer you may be inclined to take action that you would otherwise refuse, if you believe that it is God's will.

Prayer may also bring more miraculous results if your Uru decides to take pity on you. Since one's Uru is infinite it has powers that you can't imagine. The action of wishing for something with all your heart may help to crystallize some aspect of your personality in your brain. Since you are part of your Uru it is then also crystallized in your Uru and this may cause something to happen that otherwise would not have. However there may be counterbalancing forces in your Uru that you cannot perceive, since they belong to your other aga, which will prevent that wish occurring, no matter how much you wish for it.

Deep concentration on one's internal logic is most beneficial in that it allows one to come into harmony with one's Uru. It is vital that one understand one's self fully in order to live a harmonious and rewarding life. There are often aspects of ourselves that we shy away from, that we don't properly appreciate or that we don't believe. Daily concentration on our deepest desires, our hopes and fears and how our life harmonizes with these cornerstones is the means to achieve harmony. Such daily meditation on our life occurs naturally as we drift off to sleep, as we wake up and at other quiet periods in the day. This meditation time is extremely valuable. For this reason we should not be rushed into waking up. It should occur naturally. The alarm clock is the enemy of an harmonious life. We know that sleep is vital, that is why we hate the sound of the alarm clock. The body will wake itself at the right time if it needs to get up.

The use of an overwhelming deity to induce honesty and focus may achieve a useful end in crystallizing one's life, but how much better it is to simply know one's self properly and then one's focus occurs naturally and one's entire life becomes a prayer.