{"id":1317,"date":"2020-03-03T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinmayaupahar.in\/blog\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2020-03-03T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:30:42","slug":"offering-ones-anxieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/03\/offering-ones-anxieties\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Prayer – Offering up One\u2019s Anxieties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a series of 3 blogs we will be publishing from the book, \u2018The Power of Prayer\u2019. We have taken the write-ups by Swami Chinmayananda.\u00a0Prayer<\/a>\u00a0is a very personal thing for most of us. We all pray at different altars and with different techniques. There is no right or wrong. But if we understand the various aspects of prayer and its effects, our relationship with God might become stronger.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

No worry or anxiety should be entertained at the worldly losses, as it is the\u00a0<\/span><\/i>
\nNature of a true devotee to surrender constantly his limited self and all<\/span><\/i>
\nIt\u2019s secular and sacred activities to the Lord of the heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>
\n(Narad Bhakti Sutra VI:2:61)\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cNever entertain anxiety.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t worry.\u201d \u201cNever mind what happens.\u201d – This is the attitude that a true seeker should cherish, explains the sage Narada. There is the Lord; He is the Reality. All these worries and anxieties are only mere bubbles – even when their threats and dangers are from the All-loving Lord alone – somehow hold on!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cardinal attitude of heroism in <\/span>Vedanta <\/span><\/i>is \u201cRefuse to weep; keep smiling.\u201d Then even the sorrow that reaches you gets ashamed and retires in its incompetency to make you suffer. It has to go away; it cannot stand against a heroic heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Keep<\/p>\n

\u201cO Lord, this is all your <\/span>Maya <\/span><\/i>only. O! beloved, I know you are just behind this very sorrow I am now facing” – this is the attitude of a true devotee in all his experiences, good or bad; and true enough, just behind the experience is the ever the consciousness divine, the effulgent one, constantly becoming forth its irrepressible glory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cApart from Him, I don\u2019t exist\u201d declares the devotee of the Lord. \u201cEverything of me is already laid at the feet of the Lord. I do not exist, so I cannot worry about anything. It is all now his worry. I am but the \u2018witness\u2019 of the sorrow; as such the sorrow itself cannot be mine.\u201d Constantly the <\/span>bhakta <\/span><\/i>lives in this attitude, dedicating himself, the world, the <\/span>Vedas, <\/span><\/i>and everything to the Lord.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By this attitude, the <\/span>bhakta <\/span><\/i>cultivates in himself the spirit of renunciation, the joy of surrender, and the constant sense of self-offering. ‘To give’ is ever the expression of love. Love<\/a><\/span><\/span> is measured by the very joy of sacrifice – of giving one\u2019s self and one\u2019s all to Him, the Beloved. How can one take back what has already been offered in love? When one\u2019s anxieties have been offered, whose worries are these? When one\u2019s self has been offered, who then exists to worry? \u201cO Lord, it is all yours.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Read our blog on Ethics in Vedanta – Spirit of Sacrifice or Yajna<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a series of 3 blogs we will be publishing from the book, \u2018The Power of Prayer\u2019. We have taken the write-ups by Swami Chinmayananda.\u00a0Prayer\u00a0is a very personal thing for most of us. We all pray at different altars and with different techniques. There is no right or wrong. But if we understand the… <\/p>\n

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