Make your Life your prayer. And you
will be soaked in peace.
The popular notion that we have, thanks to
our upbringing and conditioning, is that prayer is an action that requires a
time, a place and certain necessary and sufficient conditions. Each religion
preaches worship through prayer differently. Therefore, while all of us have
become adept at prayer, and praying, we have become completely incapable of
living our lives meaningfully! Even when in prayer, the mind is distracted,
often anxious, fearful and disturbed! How can merely, mechanically, by rote,
chanting a mantra or reciting a hymn, compensate for intelligent living?
This is my humble, personal view. Over the
years, I have learned that your entire Life, the way you live, think and work,
can be prayer if you understand that this lifetime is a gift and that you must
forever be grateful to Life for this experience! Choosing forgiveness over
angst, love over hatred, postponing worrying than postponing happiness, serving
others over seeking deservance for yourself, practising gratitude over
harboring expectations and making each moment count are all ways in which you
can live your Life prayerfully. When you do this, repeatedly, over days and
months and years, you become the peace that you seek. This doesn’t mean that
Life will not serve you any more problems. Problems – perhaps even complex ones
– will always be there. But you will be able to deal with each of them
effectively and efficiently, because you are now anchored in peace.
It is only because you relegate peace and
prayer to a specific time, and do it with a ritualistic obsession and not with soulful
fervor, that you are unable to escape fear, worry, anxiety, guilt, grief and
suffering. But if you make your Life your prayer, always being
grateful for all that you have, you will always be at peace – with yourself and
your world!
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