In
these challenging times, there is much we can do through the power of prayer —
not only for ourselves but to serve our families, our friends, our neighbors,
and the world.
"Prayer
is a demand of the soul. God did not make us beggars; He created us in His
image.…A beggar who goes to a rich home and asks for alms receives a beggar's
share; but the son can have anything he asks from his wealthy
father...."Therefore we should not behave like beggars. Divine ones such
as Christ, Krishna and Buddha did not lie when they said we are made in the
image of God."
— Paramahansa Yogananda
The
ancient scientist sages of India discovered how to experience an overwhelming
communion of joy with a loving God. Paramahansa Yogananda teaches us how we can
have this same direct experience of the Divine, "I prefer the word
'demand' to 'prayer,' because the former is devoid of the primitive and
medieval conception of a kingly tyrant God whom we, as beggars, have to
supplicate and flatter. There is a great deal of beggary and ignorance in
ordinary prayer...Few know how to pray and touch God with their prayers."
"You
have a divine right inherited from God to demand from Him; and He will respond
to you because you are His own. If you constantly call to Him, He cannot escape
the net of your devotion. If you pray until the ether churns with the light of
your prayer, then you will find God."
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