{"id":95489,"date":"2021-05-19T06:35:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=95489"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:40:04","slug":"what-is-it-with-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=95489","title":{"rendered":"What Is It with Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6JMJYp5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By HH Bhaktimarga Swami<\/p>\n<p>Is it not the most divine form of communication<br \/>\nA way of expression, a marvelous supplication<br \/>\nAn urge from the heart due to a hurt or a wound<br \/>\nA cry so desperate from feeling so ruined<br \/>\nA call for help as if lost in dense jungle<br \/>\nSeeking signs for a way out of the tangle<br \/>\nPrayer can be a request for strength, hope, courage<br \/>\nIt certainly transcends any mundane verbiage<br \/>\nBut special requests do not alone constitute prayer<br \/>\nPrayer should not only refer to events of despair<br \/>\nNot just reserved when life appears abhorrent<br \/>\nFor prayer is rare when we&#8217;re sunk in comfort<br \/>\nThe better prayer is praise in which we thank<br \/>\nFor compared to the Divine we&#8217;re in a different rank<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s unwholesome to lodge blame on the Creator<br \/>\nAnd not owning up, it puts one in a hole, a crater<br \/>\nPrayer is acknowledgment of His great worth<br \/>\nThough the ego declares, &#8220;Mine was the greatest birth&#8221;<br \/>\nPrayer is a good medium for reconciliation<br \/>\nBecoming then an exercise in self-realization<br \/>\nPrayer should not be a shopping list on what&#8217;s missing<br \/>\nRather a counting of blessings as the Universe is kissing<br \/>\nPrayer is power, a super-healing process<br \/>\nAn opportunity to invoke human progress<br \/>\nOur heart can soften like a lotus flower<br \/>\nWhen we pray in gratitude each and every hour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6JMJYp5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6JMJYp5.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it not the most divine form of communication<br \/>\nA way of expression, a marvelous supplication<br \/>\nAn urge from the heart due to a hurt or a wound <\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95490,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95489\/revisions\/95490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}