Question: How should one pray?
Acharya Prashant: If you pray you will only do what you usually do. Is that not obvious?
What all do we do?
We eat, we bath, we relax, we talk, we chat, we plan, we take pleasure, we feel hurt—that’s what we are. And if we pray then the prayer would have the same quality as all these activities have. So, obviously we cannot pray.
Prayer is not a continuation of who we are. Praying is just going there and standing. Going where? Not to some physical location. Going there and standing silently. That inner silence is prayer.
Prayer is when you are saying that ‘I cannot know my own good’.
Prayer is when you have relaxed and given up your sense of responsibility towards yourself; that is praying.
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