The TREMENDOUS POWER OF PRAYER to Affect the Course of the World ~ A Teaching From The Heart by Sri Daya Mata
I am sharing this important and timely teaching today to inspire you to add your powerful voice of prayer to the millions who are praying for the welfare of humanity and our world in these dark times.
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The TREMENDOUS POWER OF PRAYER to Affect the Course of the World ~ A Teaching From The Heart by Sri Daya Mata
“Most men consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer!”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Sri Daya Mata calls on everyone to use the tremendous power of concentrated prayer to positively affect the course of the world.
How Can My Prayers Help Others?
I remember years ago when I first came to Mt. Washington…Master, Paramahansa Yogananda, taught us, at the end of our meditations, to pray for people.
Always we closed our meditation, forgetting ourselves having communed with God, then to pray for mankind.
Years later he thought of what he called the Worldwide Prayer Council and we established that principle in all of our centers and among our members throughout the world.
Thought has tremendous power, because out of thought all action springs. And everything that is finite in this world is the result of thought.
Therefore the most powerful force in this world IS thought. Then if that be true, then thought has the power to affect lives, and not only lives, but communities and nations.
And if this be so, it is important that that thought be positive rather than negative. There are millions of people in this world who are thinking in a negative way and who are also acting in a negative way. Isn’t it?
Therefore, it is in the interest of ourselves and in the interest of mankind, that we all take an active part in praying for mankind.
That powerful vibration of the combined thought of goodness and of love and of kindness and compassion, and positive behavior is a mighty force that has the power to change lives all over this world.
And so I urge all of you this evening, and all of those who may hear my voice in the future to join in the pursuit of God, God communion, of prayer that we might contribute our part toward changing the world and the course which is it bent upon taking.
We CAN do it.
One voice, the voice of Christ uttered centuries ago, picked up by a handful of disciples, and those disciples spreading it to other disciples and down through the ages, two thousand years… that one voice was able to transform MILLIONS upon millions of people all over this world.
Shall we not join his voice, and the voice of our Guru, and the voice of all the teachers of all religions, all of those good saintly souls, to contribute our part toward striving to change the course of this world.
We can and we must do it, and we must have the faith to believe it can be done, because I KNOW it can be done.
But each one of you here, I tell you, each one of you must do your part.
Don’t think, well I heard Daya Ma, she spoke well, now let me get back to normal life(laughter from the audience). That will have no meaning.
My voice, my hope, is to touch the very core of your being with this thought.
Change your lives by following these simple suggestions given by Guruji.
Join every day in this vast, loosely knitted but strong family of individuals praying for the world, and for the well being of every individual.
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You can feel the divine speaking through SRI DAYA MATA, in this wonderful video of her giving this live teaching to a large gathering of rapt students…her own inner connection with God shines through every word with overflowing love and power.
How Can My Prayers Help Others? Inspiring Teaching from Sri Daya Mata
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THE BEST WAY TO HELP THE WORLD IS TO PRAY FOR THE WELFARE OF ALL
“The entire world is going through a period of extreme stress and strain on nearly every level of our shared reality.
Overwhelming climate events, wars and conflicts, genocide of defenseless and innocent populations, threats to our democracy and so many other existential anxieties are affecting everyone on planet Earth.
The first, best and most effective thing we can ever do to help the world is to pray through for the welfare of every one of us, for all living beings…that that the power of love overcomes the love of power, that our combined light dissolves the darkness, that the power of our combined good overcomes evil.”
—Chinmayan
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