Who Do We Pray to? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00There is no God out there somewhere.

00:03The prayer is to oneself.

00:05It's a kind of reminder to oneself.

00:07It's an encouragement to oneself.

00:09You could even call it a pep-up talk to oneself.

00:11There's nobody anywhere else.

00:14Gods refer to the forces inside the mind itself that offer it ascension and upward propulsion.

00:26And conversely, dhanavs, demons, refer to the forces within the mind itself that sink

00:35it into all kinds of depravities and perversions.

00:41So if I'm praying to the gods, I'm actually praying to myself.

00:45So I'm telling myself, may I hear only that which is auspicious.

00:49I'm reminding myself there are gods within, but there are others as well.

00:54And they are not quite as godly.

00:56And hence, the prayer is needed.