Acharya Prashant explains that true prayer is not a continuation of one's usual activities or a product of the ego. He asserts that if we pray from our current state of being, the prayer will merely reflect our daily habits, plans, and hurts. Instead, prayer is described as an inner silence and a state of standing silently where one acknowledges they cannot know their own good. It is an absolute relaxation and a surrender of the sense of responsibility toward oneself, where one allows the rightful owner to decide how things will run. Any cultivated or fixed words from memory are considered an obstruction; true prayer arises spontaneously from the heart and may even sound foolish to the intelligent mind.
