*Become a true prayer.*
*The pseudo prayer is very prevalent because it is cheap, it costs nothing.*
*The true prayer demands much from you. It demands surrender, it demands a state of let-go.*
*The false prayer is parrot like: you simply repeat a certain formula given to you by the priests, by the parents, by the society, and you go on repeating it every night. It becomes only a habit.*
*If you don't repeat it you feel you are missing something. But although you go on repeating it for years you never get anything out of it.*
*When you don't do it, the feeling certainly arises that you are missing something, because an old pattern is not fulfilled and mind is very mechanical.*
*If you miss anything, the mind goes on goading you: Do it! The mind feels completely at ease if everything goes ritualistically.*
*The mind is very ritualistic and all the religions have become ritualistic because of the mind, the domination of the mind.*
*True religion is not a ritual. It is a feeling, it is love.*
*Prayer is not something that you can do; it is something that you can be.*
*Prayer is not an act but a state of being.*
*It simply means to be so utterly silent that God can speak to you.*
*The untrue prayer means that you speak to God; the true prayer means that you listen to God.
The difference is tremendous.*
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