Pray to God for devotion ~ 17 Dec 2012

Nandana SGS MMS 201

 

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  1. Interacting with people around is communication. Listening, acknowledging, responding & maintaining the right body language.. are essential components of good inter-personal communication. If you don’t like the way people respond to you, you don’t blame them. You learn to communicate properly.

    Interacting with God within is communion or prayer (MMS 178, 65, 62). Contemplating, reflecting, chanting, worshipping & maintaining the right attitude.. are essential components of good intra-personal communion. If you don’t like the way your deities of devotion respond to you from within, you don’t blame them. You learn to pray properly.

    Koti pranams, Gurudeva!

    You’ve taken us back to basics.. of prayer. When we hear you praying to Shiva.. with words that come from your heart, with supreme devotion & love that shine through your soulful rendering, we understand how to pray. We are so grateful to you, Master. We are following you. Jaya Guru Datta. Your Puttuji.

    • on December 17, 2012 at 8:48 am

    Jai Guru Datta !! Om Namasivaya !!

    Lord Shiva Himself has sung Shiva Panchakshari and given darshan for us on Monday !!

    Pranams and thank you for the wonderful blessings!! Yesterday Sadgurudeva taught us to speak from the heart and today how to pray from the heart. We will learn from You and follow Appaji !!

    Sivaya Gurave Namah !! Om Namo Hanumathe Namah

    • on December 17, 2012 at 9:00 am

    Jaya Guru Datta, Swamiji! What do we have if we don’t have prayer? In this perpetually changing world, the only constant in our lives is God. God is always there, wherever we may be, whatever may be happening in this crazy movie called life. How comforting that is…how fantastic that ever in our own hearts is the divine that hears us, see us, and loves us and is there to listen to us and guide us, no matter what illusion is playing out in our lives. Thank you, Swamiji, for this teaching. For reminding us to hold onto our devotion…..

    • Savitri on December 17, 2012 at 9:08 am

    What is a good devotion? What is a goo prayar? Sometimes I don’t have an answer. Even when I am devot, I should be capable to make my own decisions. I should be able to iive my life without sitting the whole day in front of a picture from Swamiji and waiting on His voice. When I pray I should be with all my heart by God and by Swamiji. But when I am not capable to be so much concentrated? I think, the it is also a good prayer when it comes from heart. We should always do our best, always!

    • Jaya on December 17, 2012 at 9:29 am

    Jaya Guru Datta

    Mount Kailash, pure peace and strength.
    Swamiji quiding and blessing us always.
    Om Namo Hanumate Namah

    • svetha on December 17, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Mein liebster Appaji, mit DEINER geliebten Stimme sprichst und singst DU mir diese Botschaft direkt ins Herz.
    Ich danke DIR für DEINE unaufhörliche Hilfe, uns auf dem richtigen Weg zu führen.
    OM RUDRAYA NAMAH
    OM SANTAYA NAMAH

  2. Jaya Guru Datta
    Dear Swami AVADHOTTA
    Again and again and again, i pray to YOU, clean me, so that i get the capacity to pray and stay in devotion.
    Sri Guru Datta with lots of love <3

    • Venkat on December 17, 2012 at 10:27 am

    Jaya Guru Datta Appaji – this is a very important message. This becomes more apt with the invocation of Lord Parama Shiva. Lord Shiva is the easiest to please and will grant all the right boons. Shivaaya gurave namaha – Shiva and Guru are not different and praying to Lord Shiva and Sadguru for the appropriate capacity and devotion will take the devotee to the next level and closer to realization. Sri Guru Datta

    • Vanaja on December 17, 2012 at 10:31 am

    Jaya Guru Datta,
    thank You Puttuji – this mms will help me to pray properly. It also reminded me of the importance to focus first on the sitting part – before meditation. May Lord Ganapati be with us always in the beginning of praying.
    Humble pranams
    Sri Guru Datta

    • Archana Penukonda on December 17, 2012 at 10:32 am

    Shivaya Gurave Namaha! Sri Swamiji says that it is foolish to pray to God for wealth. It’s an illusion that wealth will buy us a longer life. When it’s time to go, nothing can save us, except may be our Sathguru if He so wills. So, praying for wealth is futile. Thank You, Swamiji, for the message that we should first pray to God for devotion and the ability to pray properly. With this ability, we will be able to attune ourselves with God which will unlock the door to eternal happiness and give us the knowledge to cross the ocean of samsara. Prayer and meditation give us the peace of mind that no amount of wealth can buy. Pray and surrender to the Sathguru and He will ferry us across to His world. May we only strive for devotion to Sathguru. After all, His grace is the greatest prize on earth. Obeisances at the Holy Lotus Feet!

    • venkateswarudu.bhadra on December 17, 2012 at 10:44 am

    సహస్రం వర్తంతే జగతి విబుధాః క్శుద్ర-ఫలదా
    న మన్యే స్వప్నే వా తద్-అనుసరణం తత్-కృత-ఫలమ్
    హరి-బ్రహ్మాదీనాం-అపి నికట-భాజాం-అసులభం
    చిరం యాచే శంభో శివ తవ పదాంభోజ-భజనమ్ 4

    • prakashbabu on December 17, 2012 at 10:45 am

    స్మృతౌ శాస్త్రే వైద్యే శకున-కవితా-గాన-ఫణితౌ
    పురాణే మంత్రే వా స్తుతి-నటన-హాస్యేశు-అచతురః
    కథం రాజ్నాం ప్రీతిర్-భవతి మయి కో(అ)హం పశు-పతే
    పశుం మాం సర్వజ్న ప్రథిత-కృపయా పాలయ విభో 5

    • prakashbabu bhadra on December 17, 2012 at 10:46 am

    ఘటో వా మృత్-పిండో-అపి-అణుర్-అపి చ ధూమో-అగ్నిర్-అచలః
    పటో వా తంతుర్-వా పరిహరతి కిం ఘోర-శమనమ్
    వృథా కంఠ-క్శోభం వహసి తరసా తర్క-వచసా
    పదాంభోజం శంభోర్-భజ పరమ-సౌఖ్యం వ్రజ సుధీః 6

    • lalithabalaji on December 17, 2012 at 10:48 am

    ఘటో వా మృత్-పిండో-అపి-అణుర్-అపి చ ధూమో-అగ్నిర్-అచలః
    పటో వా తంతుర్-వా పరిహరతి కిం ఘోర-శమనమ్
    వృథా కంఠ-క్శోభం వహసి తరసా తర్క-వచసా
    పదాంభోజం శంభోర్-భజ పరమ-సౌఖ్యం వ్రజ సుధీః 6

    • Hira Duvvuri on December 17, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Om Namassivaya! I love you Swamiji. Sivaya Gurave Namaha.

    • on December 17, 2012 at 11:50 am

    Jai guru datta
    Puttuji please give us bless us to have devotion and capacity to always remember you.
    By doing this we can achive the capacity to pray god.
    Sri guru datta

    • Madhu Talwar on December 17, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    jgd Swami Ji in Your protection its a beautiful experience to know and believe that ‘God is’ and ‘That God has taken Your form for me . Now i pray for devotion by saying thanks for what You have blessed me with and asking for if there is any need, slowly the confidence of Your being there for me and that You know every thing will make me to forget every thing else except You. All Your actions are over whelming with devotion to ‘Your Self’ because You know Who You are and like Your child i can imitate You simply by how to join my hands, close my eyes, breathe normally, sit silently with full confidence in Your holy company (in my thoughts) feel Your presence in and around, devotion for me is like being me (i) with mine. onhn sgd

    • Joseph on December 17, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    “Praying” is the first step to be followed by all of us, like food gives nourishment to body, prayers are for our inner peace. True devotion is an absolute force which is source of many miracles. There is no force or material that can restrain God except for honest and true devotion. There were many examples of true devotees who were saved even from the verge of death, by God’s grace. Absolutely true, only if one has devotion one will realise the fact as to why God has blessed us with this wonderful human life! The answer will certainly be, to realise and experience the supreme force that is protecting the entire Universe. Only if we can experience HIS grace, we can realise that we seek help from God for petty things, which may be solved with little efforts by ourselves. But HIS grace is required colossally to be devoted and experience HIS omnipresence. May lord bless us all with devotion and patience to wait till God blesses us with the best and that is good for us.

    • on December 17, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Jaya Guru Datta
    Sri Swamiji is with us always. He knows exactly what is best for us. Every experience can tell us something on our way. He knows the fastest way for our development.
    Thank you so much for this great MMS.
    Sri Guru Datta
    Om Santaya Namah
    Om Namo Hanumate Namah

    • Praveen Nidumolu on December 17, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    Jai Guru Datta Appaji! What a Divine rendering of the Shiva Panchakshari Stothram. We are truly blessed!
    Siva Siva Sankara Tava Charanam. Hara Hara Sankara Mama Saranam
    Sachchidananda Tavacharanam Tavacharanam!
    It is so hard to maintain continious Devotion to You – due to the everyday chaos we deal with in our lives. Please bless us with the proper devotion, so we can be firmly rooted to your Divine Liotus Feet.
    Please make our hearts your permanent home. Sri Guru Datta!

    • Madhavi on December 17, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    Good devotion is necessary in order to feel Sadguru in one’s heart, to follow His guidance, to do good actions and dedicate them to Him. How difficult all this is! Oh yes, I do pray for devotion!!!
    I think to pray properly means to pray for good things and not for superficial things. And also, Appaji told us previously to pray in a genuine way, to pray without seeking rewards, to pray joyfully, to pray as if everything depends on God. Oh yes, I do pray for the capacity to pray properly!!! May I be able to improve it from day to day!
    Jaya Guru Datta

    • lilashah on December 17, 2012 at 11:03 pm

    Jaya Guru Datta. I pray for devotion. This is a selfish prayers because the times when I feel so much love for you in my heart are beyond words… Blissful, sublime, but really beyond description. What a beautiful feeling it is to love You. I pray to You to know how to pray. I get so confused because I see You doing the different poojas so they must be important yet I have no true interest in doing them myself. Maybe because I am not Indian. I also have no interest in Muslim or Christian prayers. Maybe because I wasn’t raised religiously. So how am I to pray to You? You are Lord Shiva, Mother Goddess, Jesus Christ and Allah…. Yet this human form You take out of compassion for us is my favorite form and I can recognize all of the Gods in You. I love you. You are the only truth that I know. Sri Guru Datta

    • T.R.sethuraman, Cochin. on December 18, 2012 at 4:05 am

    Puttuji as you explained here, Appaji is taking us back to basis in today’s MMS. But it has got a great inner meaning. The first line, naimly Devotion itself is the basic requirement which we have to develop to interact with God. For this purpose we need a Sadguru who will guide us through the right path and make us to develop our spiritual knowledge. Once we develop our spiritual path through our Sadguru, we will realise the God. The next line Appaji says the Capacity to pray properly. In this kaiyuga most of the people always place demands and desires only to God. In otherwords interact with God in a business manner. Here Appaji always says that when the God has given this Human birth in this janma, it is already written by Him what is to be given to you and not to be given. Therefore there isno need to place any demand further. At the same time when you pray to God, you have to praise Him by chanting Mantras in which ever way and after finishing it, you have to request God not to develop Ego in our mind or in life as well as to give balance of mind to with stand any bad incidents also. This because in our life we have to face both good and bad depend up on your karma.To practice like this we need our Sadguru who will give the capacity to pray in the proper way. In otherwords Guru makes you responsible for our growth in spiritual path. The photography and Appaji’s old Bhajan is so superb and apt for this MSG. JGD.

    • on December 18, 2012 at 9:27 am

    JAYA GURU DATTA
    NAGENDRA HARAYA ,when we start listening we will go to Devotional location.We can learn Devotion ,
    Praying all these things from SADGURU deva.
    Sathakoti pranamas to lotus feet of SADGURU DEVA.
    SRI GURU DATTA

    • LavanyaAnand on December 18, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    Jai Guru Datta!! Om Namaha Shivaya!!

    • Anuradha Oruganti on December 19, 2012 at 8:51 am

    Jai Guru Datta Swamiji!
    Om Namo Hanumate Namah!! Hara Hara Mahadeva!!
    Sri Guru Datta Swamiji!
    Shatakoti humble pranamams to the lotus feet of Sri Swamiji!

    • venkateswarudu.bhadra on December 19, 2012 at 10:24 am

    అఙ్ఞానతిమిరాంధస్య ఙ్ఞానాంజనశలాకయా |
    చక్షురున్మీలితం యేన తస్మై శ్రీగురవే నమః || 2

    • lalithabalaji on December 19, 2012 at 10:26 am

    త్వమేవ మాతా చ పితా త్వమేవ
    త్వమేవ బంధుశ్చ సఖా త్వమేవ |
    త్వమేవ విద్యా ద్రవిణం త్వమేవ
    త్వమేవ సర్వం మమ దేవ దేవ || 14 ||

    • prakashbabu bhadra on December 19, 2012 at 10:27 am

    అనేకజన్మసంప్రాప్త కర్మబంధవిదాహినే |
    ఆత్మఙ్ఞానప్రదానేన తస్మై శ్రీగురవే నమః || 9 ||

    • venkateswarudu.bhadra on December 19, 2012 at 10:28 am

    ఙ్ఞానశక్తిసమారూఢః తత్త్వమాలావిభూషితః |
    భుక్తిముక్తిప్రదాతా చ తస్మై శ్రీగురవే నమః || 8 ||

    • prakashbabu bhadra on December 19, 2012 at 10:30 am

    శోషణం భవసింధోశ్చ ఙ్ఞాపణం సారసంపదః |
    గురోః పాదోదకం సమ్యక్ తస్మై శ్రీగురవే నమః || 10

    • lalithabalaji on December 19, 2012 at 10:32 am

    కలత్రం ధనం పుత్ర పౌత్రాదిసర్వం, గృహో బాంధవాః సర్వమేతద్ధి జాతమ్ |
    మనశ్చేన లగ్నం గురోరఘ్రిపద్మే, తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిమ్ || 2 ||

    షడంగాదివేదో ముఖే శాస్త్రవిద్యా, కవిత్వాది గద్యం సుపద్యం కరోతి |
    మనశ్చేన లగ్నం గురోరఘ్రిపద్మే, తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిమ్ || 3 ||

    • venkateswarudu.bhadra on December 19, 2012 at 10:34 am

    విదేశేషు మాన్యః స్వదేశేషు ధన్యః, సదాచారవృత్తేషు మత్తో న చాన్యః |
    మనశ్చేన లగ్నం గురోరఘ్రిపద్మే, తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిమ్ || 4 ||

    క్షమామండలే భూపభూపలబృబ్దైః, సదా సేవితం యస్య పాదారవిందమ్ |
    మనశ్చేన లగ్నం గురోరఘ్రిపద్మే, తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిం తతః కిమ్ || 5 ||

    • sai Shyam on December 19, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    Such beautiful explanation PuttuJi!! jai guru datta!

    • Pavani Kamalapuram on April 9, 2013 at 1:41 am

    JGD Appaji
    Praying for wealth, health is useless..it is limited to this birth. Praying for good bhakti and seva will carry us through all our lifetimes and ensure that Appaji is with us through all of them!

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