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Gratitude is Prayer

Gratitude is Prayer. Generally our religious life starts in prayer and ends in gratitude. Prayer has got different dimensions. It gets matured as you get matured. Prayer is the bridge towards your higher Consciousness. Prayer is the bridge to take you beyond the sufferings of the planet earth. Prayer is the technique, is the method to lead you to the Super Consciousness state. Let us understand the various dimensions of prayer step by step. Prayer has many different forms. Nothing is higher, nothing is lower. Whatever way you can start, you can start. But naturally you will be growing towards the higher level of consciousness. First thing prayer starts in the physical level – going to the temple, praying to God, praying to the moorthis of Gods and Goddesses and doing some puja, doing some havan. The first level of prayer is the physical thing. Prayer should be started in a physical way. First prayer starts in the level of physical worship. Then next it goes to the level of verbal worship - you chant the stotras, you chant the mantras, you do the naama japa - chanting by words, you worship the Divine, you pray. Now you come to a little higher level. First puja then japa - stotra and repetition of mantra. All these things are verbal prayer.

Verbal prayer plays a major role in keeping the mind in higher form, in the higher level - remembrance of some sacred syllable - continuous repetition with awareness. That is an important thing; without awareness repeating will become an unconscious habit. Please don’t do that.

The more your mind is filled with some sacred syllable, sacred words the more your inner chattering will be cleansed. Your inner chattering has almost become like junk. So much unnecessary things you throw into it. So much suppression, so much anger and violence you suppress inside your being. Where will all that go? It will go and disturb your inner chattering.

Your inner chattering is made out of the stuff that you suppress inside. If you suppress too much of violence, if you suppress too much of sex, if you suppress too much of anger, those things only will come out in your inner chattering unconsciously.

All your inner chattering is made of the same stuff that you suppress inside. What you put inside, that only will come out. If you put mantras inside, the sacred syllables inside, the Divine words inside, the stotras inside, good words inside, you will see you are radiating the same beautiful words, the same beautiful feeling, the same beautiful bliss. The more you chant the right words; less you will be chanting the wrong words.