Introduction : 14.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :


Prayer-Sense :


These are the days when so-called religious men are employing their so-called gods through misconceived prayers and hypothetical ritualistic ceremonies as their advocates, commission agents, doctors, and even as abettors  in their murderous ways of shameless crimes!!

This is not the fault of prayer as such.

A dagger can be used in murdering one's own mother or in protecting one's family.

A murderer's dagger is neither hung nor even accused for having perpetrated any murder.

Similarly, the technique of prayer is, indeed, a powerful blessing in the hands of an intelligent man; but it is we who, employing it for evil purposes, have come to molest and demean the incomparable glory of prayer; we have lost the efficacy of prayer by our wrong use of it.



When viewed with understanding, prayer is a technique by which we tune ourselves to the highest perfection and thereby come to invoke in ourselves a greater perfection of both, the mind and the intellect.

To help us in this self-invocation, we may judiciously and intelligently make use of any object of the outer world, whether it be showing camphor in front of a Siva-lingam or burning a candle at the alter of the Cross.

To be continued ...