saluting to the Supreme Lord with reverence and love. Even if the chanting
were mechanical, it does not matter much, as the verbal expression is
endowed with potency. Let us not doubt as to whether God hears our prayers
or not. He does and enters the scene only at the appropriate time that is
best for us.
A person usually looks up for God when he is in rough weather. Unable to
bear the pangs of life, he relies on a power higher than he does. Trials and
tribulations give him wisdom, strength and devotion. When my Guru, Sri
Narasimha Swamiji, was admitted in the General Hospital at Madras for a
fracture of the thigh bone, after an accidental fall in 1953, he had
converted his ward into a miniature Sai Mandir. He tolerated the pain with a
smile!
There is nothing wrong if a prayer starts off for one's own betterment, as
in course of time it covers his family members and later extends to his
fellow beings in society, as he begins to perceive the Lord dwelling in all
beings. Look at the gigantic Banyan tree and the sprawling branches it
spreads, as it grows. Prayers made for others, their happiness and
well-being, goodwill and peace to the world at large, are appreciated and
quickly responded to, by God, in the form of granting the devotee an
expanded awareness
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