A Prayer for all the souls

On All Souls Day, morning WE all go to church and celebrate special mass for all the departed souls. Then we go to cemetery where our families are buried (the day before all souls day everyone decorates tomb with flower) and will lights candles and smoking fragrance). Then priests pray for every departed souls who buried in that cemetery. Sometimes we family ask special prayers for the departed souls of our family according to the availability of priests since cemetery is full of people and they also can have same request. Then we family pray together in front of tomb and then individually in our heart. Then we go back to home. If the person who died so close to you and parents, children and siblings, that day we avoid TV and other entertainments.

First, God’s favorite place of worship? In the heart of His/Her devotees. Second, God can be Master, Mother, Father, Spouse(think of nun). I chose to be a child to my God and I talk to Her as Her child. The Divine Mother embraces me and I share ALL with Her. Third, talk from your heart. This is an intimate relationship that will develop as you let down your lifetime of walls and subconscious knots. This can take time. Be dedicated, ask God daily for help on this question, share your day, your pains, your treasures, your fears. Share you with God. This will start a relationship that will ….. I have no words what transformation can happen with this deep faith in God. Many get caught up in the ‘ritual’ of prayer. Breathe, you are a child of God, it is okay to share, with heart and humility, to God. Give it a try.

God sees all. Humans have created many a ‘speed bump’ in the process of faith. You do not need a chain of command to find God. Just your heart and your love. This is all that God asks. The best worship of God is not through flowers etc. You remember constantly God’s help in the past incidents of your life and feel grateful with tears in eyes. Try to express gratefulness to the past help and you will be helped in the present and future without asking for it.

If you cannot recognize the contemporary human incarnation and if you cannot sacrifice in any way in His mission, at least, remember the previous help and become grateful to the invisible God without asking anything at least in that time. God will be certainly pleased with you and you will be helped by Him in your life. Regarding the case of devotees, who serve the God in present human form without aspiring anything in return, they will receive the eternal love from God. The fruit of His eternal love is unimaginable!

After rigorous penance for about 40 days on a hill, Jesus presented the essence of all His future messages through the prayer followed by a miracle. Thousands of people gathered, who became very hungry in the hot mid-day. There were only four pieces of bread in the basket. Jesus uplifted the basket and did not pray God to provide more pieces of bread for the sake of hungry devotees. He prayed God expressing the gratefulness for providing those four pieces of bread and asked the disciples to serve those four pieces.

Jesus thanked God looking at the past and was not worried about the problem of present and future. There is no need of any suggestion to the omniscient and omnipotent God. Sometimes you may have to remind your superior officer regarding some suggestions related to the situations in the present and in the future. The reason is that your officer is a human being with a limited brain and limited capacity. But in the case of God, such requirement does not arise. Since Jesus did not ask for the provision of more pieces of bread, it is quite possible that God might have kept silent.

Even if Jesus asked, for more pieces of bread, God might have kept silent. The reason for such silence may be to test the devotees regarding their interest in the divine knowledge in spite of the hunger. Jesus will think in this way only if the miracle was not done. He would have not uttered a single word of blame if the miracle was not performed. That is the real devotion to God. Jesus wanted to preach such devotion to the public.

You should always pray God with full gratefulness looking at your past. God has already granted 100 favours giving you this human birth, which itself is the first favour. Health, wife, children, money, education, devotion etc. are the 100 favours already done to you by God. Your prayer never touches any of these favours already done to you in the past.

Jesus explained that even the problems are also favours, which stimulate you to come near to God. His idea was that you should thank God even for the problems, which help you to develop the devotion to God. In the worldly affairs, you should be reverse to this concept. You should never think past and concentrate only on present and future in your worldly duties. Hence, God is reverse to the world.

Today, the prayers concentrate on the problems of the present, expecting the happiness of their relief in the future. According to Jesus, your prayer should be mere acknowledgement of the past favours done by God to you. Since this direction is absent, you have become the most ungrateful devil forgetting the long list of favours already done to you by God. Nobody mentions even a single favour already granted by God.

From the beginning to the end, the prayer concentrates on the present and future only assuming that the favours already done were due to the results of good deeds performed by the individual. In such case, continue with the good deeds and naturally your present and future will be good. Where is the need of prayer to God?

The devotee asked for the reason of the absence of the enlightenment of this angle by the preachers of Bible and Jesus. Swami replied: The reason is that this angle will never be liked by the public. People want God to solve the present problems for the happiness in the future. Expressing gratefulness for the past, which is already achieved is of no use. If God is confined to the past only, nobody will waste the time in the unnecessary activity of expression of gratefulness for the past. The preacher is always to the tune of the people only like a politician. The preacher is also one of the public and will have the same attitude only. This is the reason for the closure of this angle. Stay blessed! #kishoreshintre #possessedbywritingspirit #ks850articles #proudtobeindian