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Prayer to the unknown


"JIS PATE PE CHITTI DAL RAHE HO US PATE KA EK BAR PATA KAR LO"



From schools to religious places wherever we go we listen people often asking us to pray. But nobody asks the question
                                        "To whom are we praying & Why are we praying"   
If one asks this one question in his life, many dimensions of his or her life will open up. But we don't ask this one simple question. If we ask also, there is no right person to answer, because no body knows what they are doing, they are doing simply for the sake of doing. To know, we need courage , we need intellect, we need energy, we need love, we need patience, which we actually miss.

 Ramakrishna Paramhansa once said to Vivekanada,
                                          
                                        "Devotion is not asking , But  Dissolving"
which means

                                       "Prayer is not about asking something to someone
                                                But To find the one within the one"

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  1. Aryan KashyapDecember 31, 2019 at 8:31 PM

    Ye baat se to me bhi raazi hu Sir!!!-Aryan Kashyap

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  2. UnknownJanuary 7, 2020 at 6:59 AM

    Tushar to Akhilraj
    The banana bread was fabulous. You made my day.

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