The Power of Prayer

Aum Sairam

By the power of prayer, man opens the door of the heart, in which God,
the ever-forgiving, the all-merciful, abides

There are three kinds of people among those who offer prayer.

1. One person in praying feels he is fulfilling a certain duty, which
he considers to be one among the other duties of life. ...

2. The second kind of person who offers prayers is the one who prays
because he has been taught to do so, and yet is uncertain as to whether
there is any God and whether his prayers are really heard....

3. The Third person who has imagination which is strengthened by faith.
He not only prays to God, but he prays before God, in the presence of
God. Once imagination has helped a man to bring the presence of God
before him, God is
awakened in his own heart.

God is love; and if God is love, then we, every one of us, can prove
God in us by expressing God in our life. According to the external
customs of the different religions, one goes to church, one to the
mosque, one to the synagogue, and another to the temple. The inner
temple however, is none of these, but in the heart of man, where God
abides and which is the habitation of Guru.

In prayer one reaches that spirit of God which is all-powerful and
which is ever-forgiving, and it is by the power of prayer that man
opens the doors of the heart, in which God the Merciful abides.

Allah Malik