Prabhuji's Blog

Prayer is not about words, it is not a communication and not a way to make contact. These are not prayer.
A prayer is a state of being. You can express it through words, you can say every morning that you thank God, but is this a prayer? If so, then every parrot can pray…
What kind of state of being is it? Christians thank God before they eat; Jews thank God for returning their soul after the night’s sleep, what do they do? They say thank you. This is the highest form of prayer. Why is it the highest level of prayer to say thank you and the lowest to ask for things?

We are not operating with the real; we are functioning with a map we have fabricated about reality, a map that marks out a territory, but this territory is not the map. And—this map has been fabricated from ideas, from information, thoughts, conclusions, and all that we have acquired through our senses. We operate with the map to the extent that for each one of us, his own map and his own plan, is the territory itself. We confuse the map with reality.

A mantra is a door towards reality; it is a mystic phenomenon capable of unifying the consciousness and invoking that which the mantra refers to. It is an instrument that stimulates interiorization, a vibration capable of opening us to the Whole and a vehicle towards Totality.

The rays of our attention are searching like a bee. The senses are nothing more than an extension of our mind…The eyes see through the mind…and the mind is searching for happiness while it is moving as a bee from one flower to the other, from one object to the other…

Love and Attachment are similar, yet very different. Most people completely confuse attachment with love and consider the two the same. Attachment makes us insensitive to others and…