Welcome to the September edition of the Yogoda Satsanga Society of India eNewsletter. This month we share insightful thoughts from Paramahansa Yogananda on the right attitude toward prayer to bring the greatest benefit to our lives and the world.
Paramahansa Yogananda on
the Power of Prayer to Change Our Lives and the World
A prayer that is strong and deep will definitely receive God’s answer....By the application of science in religion, your uncertain belief in spiritual possibilities can become realization of their highest fulfilment.
As you cannot broadcast through a broken microphone, so you cannot send out prayers through a mental microphone that has been disordered by restlessness. By deep calmness you should repair your mind microphone and increase the receptivity of your intuition. Thus you will be able to broadcast to Him effectively and to receive His answers.
You will be surprised how, by constant prayer, your life will change—not the prayer of a beggar, but the loving demand of a child to his Heavenly Father. God, being your Father, is not bound by the consciousness of gratuity and pity that motivates an almsgiver.
You have a divine right inherited from God to demand from Him; and He will respond to you because you are His own. If you constantly call to Him, He cannot escape the net of your devotion. If you pray until the ether churns with the light of your prayer, then you will find God.
Watch a deeply inspiring video of Sri Daya Mata, third president and sanghamata of YSS/SRF, in which she calls on everyone to use the tremendous power of concentrated prayer to positively affect the course of the world.
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