PRAYER

   I had written about a story by Tolstoy  on prayers. This one is similar to that. The massage is same but the story is better . One can look at this in many ways. 

   In a town there was a temple and there was a priest. One day he saw a young girl aged 4 years come to temple. She stood in front of  statue of the God . She closed her eyes and she was saying something . The lips were moving  and the priest could not hear what she was saying. But after couple of minutes she opened eyes and bowed down and left. This continued for several days. So the priest was amused . SO one day he asked the little girl as to what does she  say when she does prayer.? She told him that she did not know any formal prayer and so she would close the eyes and do the alphabets -A to Z 4 times and then tell God that he knew what she wanted to to say  and he will KNOW the prayer anyway.

   The priest was speechless. This is devotion One does not need to to knw the formal process of prayers or the chanting  of the so called Mantras . But this is true only if one has unconditional devotion and trust. As long as one is doing prayer for the Love and not Demanding things for himself or herself.

ASSUMPTION

   In life we have so many assumptions and we are correct most of the the time. We plan for tomorrow and next year and also many years down the road the retirement .In the brain  evolution from animals to human beings one of the qualities that has developed is the planning for the future. But in doing so we ASSUME many things . I had read somewhere that many people who have contributed to social security in USA , do not live long enough to collect it. So this is a short story abiut the assumption. 

  In Mahabharat, there is one incidence, Dharmaraj had designated time for donations . He would give money or grains or food etc to the people who came to him asking for something. The time was fixed as he could not do this randomly all the time as he was King  and had other work. So one day he was sitting with his brothers  and he was giving food . grain or money to needy people that came to him. The time expired  and he was still sitting  and a brahmin came in . He wanted some grain so he can take it home  and cook and eat. The time had expired and so Dharmaraj  told the brahmin that the time is over and he needs to come next day  and he will give him the grain. The Brahmin was disappointed and he started going back. Bhim was sitting next to Dharmraj and he smiled . So Dharmaraj asked him as to why he smiled. Bhim answered . He said ''By asking the Brahmin to come back tomorrow, you have assumed so many things . You have assumed that tomorrow You will be alive and he will be alive and you will still have desire -intension to GIVE . How do do you know all these things will be there.'' Dharmraj called back the Brahmin. and gave him the grains. 

  This the reason there is saying that what you could do TOMORROW do it TODAY  and what you can do TODAY do it NOW as in seconds there may be PRALAY - end of world and then you will be left with not doing it.