Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The question was posed on 5th March 2003 and the answer has come on its own on 6th march 2003 in Shri SadagopanIyengar swami's article " Lord Remembers" . Even before you ask HE GIVES. LORD IS OMNISCIENT, OMNIPOTENT AND OMNIPRESENT. WE HAVE TO BE PATIENT. THERE IS ALWAYS LIGHT AT THE END OF TUNNEL. My pranams to all Bhagavathas v k vijayaraghavan ----- Original Message ----- From: Madhavan Ramabhadran To: Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [Oppiliappan] A doubt in grace. SRI: Narayana Narayana Narayana Srimathe Ramanjaya Namaha. Dear Bhagavatha, Shubhamastu. Your doubt reflects the state of mind of crores of people who are suffering from something or the other and try to pray EMBERUMAAN, expecting something to happen or something to received from HIM. Unless our expectation is granted , we automatically doubt whether Our Lord Emberumaan is listening to our prayers or not. Such an act is pure business and not the Devotion with which one should pray. You are aware or should become well become aware, any prayer made to The Lord with epectation or any reward is no prayer at all. When you are facing any adverse situation, you shd treat it as what you are to experience due to the past KARMAS. Our ELDERS have instructed us to Cling to The Lotus Feet of The Lord and treat everything as God given gift, whether we like them or not. We shd boldly and with full faith in Him, leave everything to Him. We shd not ask anything in return to our prayers. If we start disassociating OUR SELVES from all that is happening as His LEELA, then no doubt ever will enter our minds. There is no need for any mystery to Happen separately, as everything that happened, happening and going to happen are all according HIS CHITTAM and already studded with mysteries whichwe can not understand. If we pray anticipating something to happen mysteriously, our prayer becomes an expectation in return. This attitude is very easy to say but in practice it is a very tough task. We can make a beginning and allow this process to go on. Slowly, but surely our minds will settle down in the very thoughts of The Lord and Bestow Peace on us and we will start taking things as they happen and we will not feel frustrated and the doubts that have been raised about God's listening to our Prayers will slowly fade away and immense faith will set in our minds Once we sincerely leave everything to HIM and surrender to HIM unconditionally and willingnly, as advised by our Acharyas, Azhwars and Great Bhagavaths our minds will tend to be tamed and we will relish our prayers to HIM and start experiencing the BLISS (SHAANTHI) . Adiyen Sri Ramanuja Dasan Kombur Vankeepuram Madhavan Sangeetha <sangs5@xxxx> wrote: Hello Everybody, Greetings. I am Sangeetha, Vadagalai Iyengar. I have a very basic doubt on whether god is really listening to our prayers and whether he is with us. I am not able to find an answer to this. I will be greatful if any one of you could share your mystic experiences. With Warm Regards Sangeetha To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. PLEASE KEEP CHANTING GOD'S NAMES LIKE KRISHNA , RAMA, GOVINDA . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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