Today is Sunday..lazy lazy Sunday..Dozed away watching "The Scarlet Letter" last night..Some sensible movie which tries to analyze a dispute between what in fact is morally correct in the eyes of god..Lying on my bed..gazing at the blurred picture of lord Krishna hung on the wall,i was trying to plunge into a discussion with my inner self over what in fact is the essence of a prayer.I grew up listening to stories of king Akbar and Birbal (One of the nine jewels of Akbar's court comprising of learned men,poets and advisers). Once there was a dispute between the king and Birbal over whether faith of man was superior to the prayers offered by Sufis(messengers of god or priests). The king believed that prayers of mankind would reach god if and only if offered by the Sufis who were supposedly very close to the supreme entity. Birbal believed in the contrary. But he had no sufficient evidence to this. One day the king gets an invitation from a nearby kingdom to visit a sanctum which was well known for the miracles of a Sufi saint. The king, who was in preparation for a war decides to visit the place and offer his prayers for victory. After the visit, the king continues for the war and undoubtedly seizes victory. The king now confirms his faith in the powers of the messengers of the god. Birbal now interrupts the scene and invites Akbar to visit the sanctum again.. There Birbal exposes the fact that the sanctum was created artificially over the king's own robes and there were no Sufis. This proves to the king that it was the faith one has on oneself that leads him to victory.. Hmmmm.. Interesting ain't it?
So what in fact does prayer mean to me? They say, god resides in oneself. God is nothing but the power hidden in oneself and this can be awakened by concentrating on building a destiny which has a righteous outcome, formulating a path of truthfulness towards the destiny and building a confidence level or faith in achieving the same. When we pray, are we actually trying to build a conversation with an idol of stone or wood? I don't think so. All of us have a disturbed mind with millions of options about our goals and million other options defining the path to be taken towards them. Prayer is a brief period of time when we prioritize, analyze and finally decide on what is to be done and how. As far as I am concerned, I believe that the concrete structures named a temple, church or a mosque provide nothing more than a calm ambiance for a focused mind. Ultimately it is that subconscious inner mind of ours that masters our decisions..
So again, I ask myself, what is it that builds our inner mind or the subconscious self? Good question. Basic character of a person molds by the time he is five years old.. Why does this happen? Possibly because our inner mind is more open to the world than our logical part during this period of time and attempts to grasp the instinctive chemistry of life. Hence the solution is to attempt a command over our inner self.. And the initial step to the art of self mastering is self realization. This is where a prayer comes handy.
Many a people are in a habit of linking terms like “God”-“Prayer”-“Action”-“Fate”. Personally, I have dissected each one of them uniquely. I have already described “God” according to me in the first stanza and “Prayer” in the second. Now comes the third one – “Action”. Action has nothing to do with god. It is not an abstract image named god who is entirely bestowed with the responsibility to judge our actions. Every cause has an effect. I still wonder why people still pull in
Then finally I come to “Fate”. I describe fate as mere coincidence of circumstances with what we wish. You wish for something good and if circumstances coincide so as to favor the occurrence of your wishes, you call it “Good Fate”. And vice versa. Bullshit!!!!! Absolutely Bullshit!!! Ultimately the victim is “You”.. “Yourself”..
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