What is prayer?

Nama Article 19th June 2012

 

What is prayer?

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

To cry before God till we attain what we want, unmindful of everything else

 

What does not constitute prayer?

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

To tell God as one would pass on a piece of information

 

What is the best that we can do when we can do nothing about another's misery?

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

Prayer for them alone

 

Please check these: Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

Believe in simple prayers

 

Conversing with God in a personal manner is prayer in itself. Thanking God for all the good things He has given you is prayer in itself. Singing His Divine Name is prayer in itself.

 

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself, and with the whole world

 

Chanting lips make many hands work

 

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much

 

Repeating a demand or prayer over and over again, mentally or orally, and with deepening attention and devotion, spiritualizes the prayer

 

What is the power of pracitising prayers, how it can transform a person and why a devotee is dear to Lord Krishna ?

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare