No selfishness in
a prayer
please
Recreated by
P.R.Ramachander
(Rewriitten based on write up by my friend , who isa scholar who never
asks anything himself –Sri Sivan jaykat)
One day I happened to meet
Lord Krishna ,
And I asked him , “Do you know why I pray you?”
Lord Krishna with
a pretty smile told ,”Only you will know,
For my job is getting
the prayers from you people.”
I nodded in
agreement told , “True Krishna,
I too was nagging you daily to fulfil all my wants,
And I know
millions of people do it, I pity
you,
As to which prayer
would you be able to attend?”
“For me all devotees
and all prayers are the same,
To me all languages
are the same , all castes are
thesame,
Dont think
that I am a man like you to be
biased.”
He replied and I had
to agree with him one hundred
percent.
Lord Krishna
smiled again and told ,”The requests ,
That come to me
are some times selfish and sometimes,
To the good of all and it may be asked by asura or deva
ora man.
But I do take a
decision , only based on the request.”
“Hey see , the one who really believes in me
,
Would never ask me for anything as he would feel,
That it is my duty to look after him , whether he asks or not,
And to that devotee I am the mother and to me he is the child.”
Did not read your
great poet Mahavi Bharathi sing,
“One kitten is like ash , another black,
Another the colour of a snake and another of milk,
But they are all
kitten and how can there be differences among them.”
“You need not chant a prayer to please me
,
For you would be
wasting your time as well as effort,
When you ask anything , I would see whether your mind is wet,
And I would be
waiting for you to ask for others
and not for yourself.”
I realized
what he told me and remembered about a
Guru,
Who conducted
prayer sessions , where first he will
group them,
In to two each,
ask them to understand the need of each
other ,
And then ask each of them
to pray for fulfilling the need
of his partner.
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