Prayer - Mahatma Gandhi

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Prayer I. MEANING OF AND NECESSITY FOR PRAYER Prayer is nothing else but an intense longing of the heart. Tou may express yourself through the lips; you may express yourself in the private closet or in the public; but to be genuine, the expression must come from the deepest recesses of the heart. *** There is an eternal struggle raging in man's breast between the powers of darkness and of light, and who has not the sheet-anchor of prayer to rely upon will be a victim to the powers of darkness. *** Begin, therefore, your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening. Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares. www.mkgandhi.org Page 6
Prayer 01. MEANING OF AND NECESSITY FOR PRAYER (From "A Discourse on Prayer " by M.D.) I am glad that you all want me to speak to you on the meaning of and the necessity for prayer. I believe that prayer is the very soul and essence of religion, and, therefore, prayer must be the very core of the life of man, for no man can live without religion. There are some who in the egotism of their reason declare that they have nothing to do with religion. But it is like a man saying that he breathes but that he has no nose. Whether by reason, or by instinct, or by superstition, man acknowledges some sort of relationship with the divine. The rankest agnostic or atheist does acknowledge the need of a moral principle, and associates something good with its observance and something bad with its non-observance. Bradlaugh, whose atheism is well known, always insisted on proclaiming his innermost conviction. He had to suffer a lot for thus speaking the truth, but he delighted in it and said that truth is its own reward. Not that he was quite insensible to the joy resulting from the observance of truth. This joy, however, is not at all worldly, but springs out of communion with the divine. That is why I have said that even a man who disowns religion cannot and does not live without religion. Now I come to the next thing, viz., that prayer is the very core of man's life, as it is the most vital part of religion. Prayer is either petitional or in its wider sense is inward communion. In either case the ultimate result is the same. Even when it is petitional, the petition should be for the cleansing and purification of the soul, for freeing it from the layers of ignorance and darkness that envelop it. He, therefore, who hungers for the awakening of the divine in him must fall back on prayer. But prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. Any amount of repetition of Ramanama is futile if it fails to stir the soul. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. It must be in clear response to the spirit which hungers for it. And even as a hungry man relishes a hearty meal, a hungry soul will relish a heart-felt prayer. And I am giving you a bit of my experience www.mkgandhi.org Page 7
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Prayer independent of any sensuous
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Prayer 26. GOD'S COVENANT (Gist of
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Prayer For me the observance of eve
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Prayer 28. A CALL TO REPENTANCE (Fr
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Prayer Harijan, 8-6-'35, p. 132 (Or
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Prayer 30. DIVINE GUIDANCE (From "D
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Prayer 31. GUIDANCE (From "A Word t
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Prayer accident that I was saved, a
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Prayer mouth of a debtor to say he
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Prayer 33. "INNER VOICE" (From "Let
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Prayer II. FORMS AND METHODS OF PRA
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Prayer 35. HOW I ESTABLISH COMMUNIO
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Prayer (From "Letter to V. M. Tarku
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Prayer "Of what avail is the tilak
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Prayer Mahadevbhaini Diary, Vol. 2,
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Prayer 38. "THY WILL BE DONE" I pra
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Prayer 39. RESIGN TO HIS WILL (From
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Prayer 40. HOW TO AND WHOM TO PRAY
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Prayer True meditation consists in
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Prayer forget Him by whose mercy I
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Prayer 43. NEVER MISS PRAYERS (From
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Prayer 44. ATTENDANCE AT PRAYERS (F
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Prayer realize God more and more fu
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Prayer taught us to convert night i
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Prayer 46. TAMASI TAPAS (From "Spar
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Prayer completely filled with His s
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Prayer A silent prayer is often mor
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Prayer (From "Prayer Discourses" by
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Prayer 51. CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER (F
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Prayer individual prayer is a prelu
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Prayer 53. MY FAITH IN PUBLIC PRAYE
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Prayer Such individual prayer consu
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Prayer 55. CONCENTRATION DURING PRA
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Prayer 57. THE MALADY OF INTOLERANC
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Prayer 58. A WORD TO OBJECTORS (Fro
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Prayer analysis the names were as m
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Prayer (From "All about the Fast")
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Prayer ostentation or to inflict pa
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Prayer (From "Is It Loss of Faith")
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Prayer ponder over Gajendra Moksha
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Prayer summons and deliver up your
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Prayer unnecessary. Again it is pos
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Prayer becomes, Bhagavan. This stat
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Prayer 67. IDOLATRY (From "Weekly L
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Prayer 68. IDOLATRY v. IDOL-WORSHIP
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Prayer 70. ARE TEMPLES NECESSARY An
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Prayer tion of many bodies will hav
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Prayer not history record instances
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Prayer 73. A MODEL TEMPLE I mention
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Prayer Rajkot scheme. The village t
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Prayer 75. TREE WORSHIP (Translated
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Prayer 76. ATMOSPHERE FOR PRAYERS M
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Prayer religious meditation, they w
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Prayer respects his own. They do no
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Prayer view we began to recite part
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Prayer nearer to us than the nails
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Prayer 78. THE ASHRAM PRAYER (From
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Prayer And who go not astray." I am
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Prayer 79. ABOUT PRAYER AT THE ASHR
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Prayer (Original: "Prayer") Prayer
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Prayer 81. FROM MANIBEHN'S NOTES (T
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Prayer * * * We are helpless like D
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Prayer * * * This body is sometimes
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Prayer III. RAMANAMA Even if you do
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Prayer 83. WHO IS RAMA (From a lett
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Prayer 84. POWER OF RAMANAMA What,
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Prayer 1 Rama pronounced wrongly, i
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Prayer 86. RIDICULING RAMANAMA (Fro
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Prayer 88. RAMANAMA AND NATIONAL SE
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Prayer (From "Who and Where is God"
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Prayer How can they This sovereign
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Prayer The whole of God's law is em
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Prayer (From "Question Box") My Nat
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Prayer If this is Christian Science
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Prayer that the soul is something a
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Prayer 90. RAMANAMA (From "Speech a
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Prayer that height it is enough if
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Prayer (To Mirabehn) It is, ...enou
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Prayer 92. FROM AFTER-PRAYER DISCOU
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Prayer How to Recite Ramanama Gandh
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Prayer emanation of silent influenc
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Prayer Miracles That Faith Works A
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Prayer God. The Almighty would take
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Prayer prolong our existence by a f
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Prayer If one wants to drink the ne
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Prayer I hope there will be non-vio
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Prayer 95. "RAMA! RAMA!" (From "The
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Prayer NOTE: Bowing to the earth, w
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Prayer 13 Thou art the only refuge,
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Prayer 4 Ahimsa, truth, non-stealin
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Prayer My Heartfelt Prayer "Lord, p
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Prayer Cleanse me from its guilt an
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Prayer Bound by gold chains about t
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Prayer But 'tis enough that Christ
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Prayer The dreariest path, the dark
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