Great talk covering many important points and useful tips on this very important spiritual practice of prayer. As someone who finds it easier to pray than meditate, or engage in ritualistic worship, it is encouraging to know the importance given to this practice even by Sri Ramakrishna himself! As Swami Medhananda ji indicated, it is not as glamorous a practice as some others, but very effective when practiced with a sincere heart. The great part is that anyone can do it and benefit from it to make progress in their spiritual journey. Thank you for the beautiful talk, Jay Sri Ramakrishna!🙏🏼
Can’t wait to hear this talk based off you comment. Prayer is my first introduction into spirituality. Prayer and Bhakti. I can remember being 5/6 years old and praying constantly.
@@ARdave311 You are blessed to have been drawn to prayer and Bhakti since a very young age. And now that we have such wonderful teachers who give the philosophical knowledge and background for the practices, our practice can become even stronger. I have been listening to many of Swami Medhanandaji’s talks and love them; he provides wonderful and helpful insights into Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings. Going to listen to this one again, always helps to reinforce!
Thank you for this precious information, Swami ji for sharing these very essential pointers on Prayer. Brother Lawrence’s Prayer: A sense of the presence of God - very powerful! Doing work for God than for our self, change the inner attitude, do it as an offering to God! 🙏🏼 So very refreshing to hear this, so well expressed!
So prayer too--of what ever kind-- beckons among the infinite paths, trails, or highways and threads taking us to infinitude. "Of course," says the heart, grateful to hear it said! Rejoicing seems to be occurring all around as this young monk affirms a permission, difficult to give ourselves, to Worship, commune as we would 'instinctively'. Advaita Vedanta can seem to cleave to an orthodoxy even more puritanical and forbidding than the Puritans', so this monk's voice is so helpful. At times, the scriptures on non-dualism and the elaborations given even by the Ramakrishna and the Kashmir Saivist monks go amiss, much as those of new and old devotees. Surprising that Abhinava or Utpala sometimes sound fearful or repelled by the material world. Then, suddenly, as Medhanandaji speaks, it's as if Language itself has become more attuned to the task. (In a way, this is worrisome, perhaps?) But now I find I want more, of course. Sustained deattachment from what's culturally prescribed often not only bolsters the tender ego but triggers Fear of the Divine, or Tremundum. Surely we can hope to hear of this too from Swamiji before long.
Very detailed discussion on prayers! Most appropriately brought in the names of the books The way of a pilgrim, Philokalia and brother lowrence's , which are like all time favourite to most of the devotees who wants to adopt the prayer as a path. Pranam to revered Maharaj,,🙏🙏🙏🙏
Of course God knows our mind ,our prayers. But, praying God means, the devotees are sure that God exists, they are no doubters now ,otherwise most of us are doubters!! God knows ,but do wants to be assured that the person himself are assured of his beliefs!
Couldn't agree more. Whole discussion about the path of knowledge without adequate emphasis on the four fold qualifications is baffling. Yes, that path has intellectual glamour and may appear to give results here and now but how can that happen without adequate preparation? And didn't the Lord say, for the embodied, the path of the unmanifest is difficult and क्लेश giving? A few may be naturally suited for the knowledge path but shouldn't any discussion about it necessarily include discussion of the four fold qualifications? Peace!!!
❤🔥your words make a fire burn in me❤🔥
Great talk covering many important points and useful tips on this very important spiritual practice of prayer. As someone who finds it easier to pray than meditate, or engage in ritualistic worship, it is encouraging to know the importance given to this practice even by Sri Ramakrishna himself! As Swami Medhananda ji indicated, it is not as glamorous a practice as some others, but very effective when practiced with a sincere heart. The great part is that anyone can do it and benefit from it to make progress in their spiritual journey. Thank you for the beautiful talk, Jay Sri Ramakrishna!🙏🏼
Can’t wait to hear this talk based off you comment. Prayer is my first introduction into spirituality. Prayer and Bhakti. I can remember being 5/6 years old and praying constantly.
@@ARdave311 You are blessed to have been drawn to prayer and Bhakti since a very young age. And now that we have such wonderful teachers who give the philosophical knowledge and background for the practices, our practice can become even stronger. I have been listening to many of Swami Medhanandaji’s talks and love them; he provides wonderful and helpful insights into Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings. Going to listen to this one again, always helps to reinforce!
Pranam Maharaj 🙏 🙏
It's truly beneficial!
Your talks of course!
Thank you for this precious information, Swami ji for sharing these very essential pointers on Prayer.
Brother Lawrence’s Prayer: A sense of the presence of God - very powerful!
Doing work for God than for our self, change the inner attitude, do it as an offering to God! 🙏🏼
So very refreshing to hear this, so well expressed!
Pranam maharaj.life changing speech.
What a vast expansive n practical lecture!
Sastanga pranams maharaj
So Beautiful !!!
Moving and highly instructive. Pronams and gratitude, Maharaj 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Extraordinary. So much beneficial. Thank you Maharaj 🙏🙏
Hari om 🕉 swami ji 🙏🏻 🎉🎉🎉
So prayer too--of what ever kind-- beckons among the infinite paths, trails, or highways and threads taking us to infinitude. "Of course," says the heart, grateful to hear it said!
Rejoicing seems to be occurring all around as this young monk affirms a permission, difficult to give ourselves, to Worship, commune as we would 'instinctively'. Advaita Vedanta can seem to cleave to an orthodoxy even more puritanical and forbidding than the Puritans', so this monk's voice is so helpful. At times, the scriptures on non-dualism and the elaborations given even by the Ramakrishna and the Kashmir Saivist monks go amiss, much as those of new and old devotees. Surprising that Abhinava or Utpala sometimes sound fearful or repelled by the material world. Then, suddenly, as Medhanandaji speaks, it's as if Language itself has become more attuned to the task. (In a way, this is worrisome, perhaps?)
But now I find I want more, of course. Sustained deattachment from what's culturally prescribed often not only bolsters the tender ego but triggers Fear of the Divine, or Tremundum. Surely we can hope to hear of this too from Swamiji before long.
Pranaam maharaj🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very detailed discussion on prayers! Most appropriately brought in the names of the books The way of a pilgrim, Philokalia and brother lowrence's , which are like all time favourite to most of the devotees who wants to adopt the prayer as a path. Pranam to revered Maharaj,,🙏🙏🙏🙏
Excellent ! You should teach more lectures from Abrahamic prophets paradigm !
PRONAM THAKUR
What a profound talk , some day would like to meet you 🌺🌺🌺Jai Ma
Pronaams!🙏 Namashkaars to all!🙏
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Of course God knows our mind ,our prayers.
But, praying God means, the devotees are sure that God exists, they are no doubters now ,otherwise most of us are doubters!!
God knows ,but do wants to be assured that the person himself are assured of his beliefs!
Couldn't agree more. Whole discussion about the path of knowledge without adequate emphasis on the four fold qualifications is baffling. Yes, that path has intellectual glamour and may appear to give results here and now but how can that happen without adequate preparation? And didn't the Lord say, for the embodied, the path of the unmanifest is difficult and क्लेश giving? A few may be naturally suited for the knowledge path but shouldn't any discussion about it necessarily include discussion of the four fold qualifications? Peace!!!