Prayer of the Right Order

The best type of power, dynamic, dynamic will always be the power of prayer. All other powers, dynamic powers, or any powers shall stagnate and fail. But prayer is the beacon of light that gives maximum light to everything in sight or in the immediate future.

The weakness of man is that he cannot stand the burden. He attracts trouble by overburdening himself. He takes a load on his back, and soon, this heavy load bends to his will.

Man is a creature created to impress God, and he is a weak person who fails to impress God. The prayer of the weak person is easy as he doesn’t attract any trouble by his own strength. He is demanded of like the prayer of the pleases the powerful person.

The prayer of the weak person is full of troubles, but the prayer of the right person is full of assurance.

Drop one weight or one piece of baggage and the second one itself becomes lighter. Every attempt of every man to lighten the load he carries is bound to fail. It is a law that can be easily understood.

All that is needed to overcome the helplessness of a heavy load is to bring God in to bear and share the load. The answer to the problems of hopelessness lies in the hands of the atman within the person. While surrendering the load to the Lord, man is disfellowshipped from the worldly form and remains the immortal form which cannot be damaged by anything on the earth or in the day after.

Lord Krishna while talking to Arjuna, tells him that the senses are powerless and the mind is the control center of the senses. He further says that if the mind is controlling the senses, the senses can not control the mind. Only the atman, which is the soul, can control the mind, and the mind can never betray the body. The body is a temporary vehicle that is less than the soul. The soul being self-effulgent and eternal, can never be harmed.

When a person has no power in his own hands and is dependent upon God, he is called powerless. The individual is powerless when he is at the lowest level. It is only when the atman is awakened to its own accord that the individual is considered to be powerful. The capability of the individual is at its peak when the atman is in complete union with God.

From its very beginning, the soul is eternal, which has been perishing in the descents of the senses. It is, therefore, impossible to kill the soul physically. While the body experiences physical relaxations and diseases, it is the soul that is immortal and immune to all the impacts of the world. The weakening of the soul is the reason behind the fruits which bear no fruit of action. The individual is only mortal when he is identified with the soul.

In the stories of saints and sages, we observed that they had no troubles in their life. This is because they had developed the habit of seeing the divine in everything in nature. Therefore, they have become strong enough to live in divine harmony with God even when confronted with the most powerful of the worlds.

If we develop our soul power to its maximum, we can lift ourselves up to a divine state of mind where we live in the joy of the divine, and the hardships of the world are only a source of strength and courage. No one would want to live in misery and discomfort. The human soul is too weak to move in the deep revelations of the divine and remain unattached to the divine. Therefore, to live in bliss and happiness within this world, the soul power has to be developed.

Soul power is not the property of a few people. Anybody can achieve the level of soul power as the body is the soul’s vehicle, so the power mastered by the soul is the source of divine power in the human body. Therefore, the method of development of the soul power begins with the improvement of the body.

The most fundamental improvement that is made to the body is the diet. The diet should be pure such that it does not contain any junk food. If the diet does not contain junk food, the body does not perform its role but remains healthy. So the way to develop the soul power is to ensure that the body has the ability to perform its duty of providing the basic necessities of life.

The next improvement that can be made on the body in the exercise. All kinds of exercises strengthen the body, but some kinds of exercise are more beneficial than others. One kind of exercise is primarily yogic in nature, and it is said that even meditation is not complete without the physical practice of some yogic methods.

The third kind of exercise that is often associated with the spiritual path of self-realization is carnal. It is the power of the mind over the body.