Acharya Prashant explains that any true prayer is always made to oneself. If a prayer is true, it is being made to oneself because who is there to make or break us? It is we ourselves. The Upanishads say that there is no friend greater than you and no enemy greater than you. He refers to the Amritabindu Upanishad, which states that there is no greater well-wisher than you and no greater enemy than you. Therefore, whether your life is made or ruined depends on you. The one who controls your life is you. If your life is going wrong, with various kinds of sorrows, afflictions, and ailments, then prayer is necessary. You will pray to the one who makes all the decisions in your life and has control over it. That person is you. Therefore, prayer is always done to oneself. By praying, you are reminding yourself how much you are in sorrow. You are reminding yourself how untrustworthy and foolish you are. This is what you are saying when you pray, "May I not do wrong to myself." When we pray, "O Ram, save me from myself," it is clear that we are very weak and in great danger. We are eager to destroy ourselves. If I am the one who is going to destroy myself, then I have to stop myself from destroying myself. Prayer is a way to deal with all these disturbances and weaknesses. In prayer, you repeatedly remind yourself of your responsibility and, at the same time, your weakness. The first thing is that you are very powerful, so powerful that you can destroy yourself and also save yourself. The second thing is that you are very weak, very powerless. You can do your own welfare and also your own destruction, but you often end up destroying yourself. You are very weak. And you are forgetful. What you remember now, you will forget in a little while. That is why there is a tradition of repeating prayers. Prayer is a reminder to yourself. You know, but you forget. It is a reminder to yourself. The senses certainly see the world, but they only see the non-essential element of the world. They can never see what the fundamental matter of this world is. Prayer is that these senses, mind, and intellect do not get entangled in the non-essential and remain content with the surface. There should always be an insistence within us to reach the substance of things, the reality of the world, the truth of the world. This prayer is a kind of reminder to oneself. Don't forget. You know, but you forget. This is what is being reminded to oneself.