From IIM Ahmedabad To Happiness

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers

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CHAPTER NINE
The Logic Of Prayer
rayer we must to get rid of our impure thoughts and reflect upon the unsurpassable virtues of our object of worship. If
nothing else, praying does provide us with a spirit of resignation from the worldly affairs, at least for the duration of its performance. We surrender to the divine virtues of the Supreme Being and therefore experience a sense of relief, a feeling of soothing consolation. Praying reduces our negative emotions and promotes positive feelings.
Praying must not be shedding of tears of helplessness. There is no such thing in Nature anywhere as a department for receiving and disposing of the countless millions of unreasonable and selfcontradictory prayers which are poured forth daily by the human race. Unreasonable, because a terrorist might pray, with all the intensity at his command, for success in his next mission of terrorism. Self-contradictory, because two persons, engaged in a bitter court case for the ownership of a piece of land, might both pray, to the same Deity, for a verdict in their favour. It is totally unreasonable to imagine that our sufferings and wants have to be repeatedly brought to the notice of the all-knowing God before he
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