Bribing Gods || Acharya Prashant

You even have specialists in prayers these days. I was seeing an ad. So there the fellow says that I know some kind of Vashikaran Prala. So if the girl is not responding to your proposals, come and pray. What kind of prayer is this? So students when exams approach you see them queuing in front of temples. I don’t have a son. Pray. India is losing a cricket match. Pray. I committed a robbery and now police is coming to catch me. Pray. What kind of prayer is this?

You are in fact intent upon bribing God also. If that happens, I will distribute sweets and give something to you as well in commission. Real prayer is such a deep surrender that I am not even going to ask something because I do not know what is good for me. I’m leaving everything to existence. It is not about going and claiming or demanding or begging.

It is about just being silent. Just being silent. It is not about raising a hue and cry, a clamor, shout. Real prayer is not about 5 minutes in front of a deity or 5 minutes in a temple or a mosque. Real prayer is an entire life of submission. I submit to the divine will.