Art of saying Prayers.
Prayers
are combination of some words and some emotions addressed to the almighty God.
Words may be differ from religion to religion and from culture to culture but
emotions remain same in the prayers. Emotions and uninterrupted mind are the
main contents of a prayer. If emotions are not there and if uninterrupted mind
will not be there that prayer would not generate any result.
Mind
has so many characteristics and drifting is main one which is a real enemy of
our prayers. As we start saying prayer our mind starts drifting. Drifting of
mind is a kind of wave of mind where mind generate so many thought in response to
a thought said within it. Neglecting and forgetting the words of prayer mind drifts
on others words of any kind and in this way our mind take us away from our
prayers and break our divine communication.
As
communication without current is not possible and in the same manner prayer
with interrupted mind is not possible. Drifting of mind break the current of our
prayers. We need to train our mind for a better communication. We need to silence the mind before we said a
prayer.
I
have experienced that when I have prayed without any interruption it gave me
immediate peace with results. Prayer offered with uninterrupted mind
immediately release peace and tranquility. Results may come sooner or later
but peace of mind is guaranteed.
Did
you remember the story “The Three Hermits” written by a Russian author Tolstoy.
This story appeared in the short-story collection Twenty-Three Tales. The title
of the story refers to its three central characters; unnamed simple monks
living on a remote island where they were praying and meditating for the
salvation of their souls.
A
bishop when traveling in that area overhear a discussion about that remote
island and those three unnamed monks. He also came to know about their prayer
which was – "Three are ye, three are we, have mercy upon us.”
Subsequently,
the bishop acknowledges that those monks have a little knowledge but are
ignorant of the true meaning of the doctrine and how to pray properly. He wants
tell them that he will teach them not a way of his own, but the way of praying
as guided in our book of religion.
He
arranged a small boat and traveled to that isolated Island to teach them exact
method of prayer and exact words of praying. He want to teach them words of
prayer as given in religious book. He reach there on the Island, meets the
three hermits and taught them guided prayers the whole day. After he was satisfied that they have properly
memorized the prayer, the Bishop departs from the island leaving the hermits
with a firm instruction to pray as he has taught them.
The
bishop then returns to his boat and continues his voyage. While on board, the
bishop notices that his boat is being followed. At first he thinks that there was
a boat behind his boat but very soon he realizes that the three hermits are
running across the surface of the water "as though it were dry land."
On reaching near to him they inform him that they have forgotten the prayers
and remember nothing of it. Please teach us those prayers again.
Astonished was the Bishop. Yes, The Bishop was
astonished.
Very
slowly very faithfully the bishop replied to the hermits “Pray your own prayers
to God and also pray for us sinners.”." After this the hermits turn around
and walked back to their island.
This
story of Tolstoy tells us what actually important for a prayer. The devotion,
the emotion and the intention. For those three hermits words of prayers were
not important, their devotion to almighty, their emotions for almighty and
their pure intention for all mighty was important.
There
were only emotion and uninterrupted mind in prayers of those three unnamed
monks.
This
story tells us when you speak to the almighty speaks in your own words speak as
you want to speak to, speak what your heart want to speak.
True
prayers are beyond the words.
