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Articles: Devotion | The overlooked Truth
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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'My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them,” the first man answered. 'His prayers were all unanswered and so he does not deserve to leave the island!”
'You are mistaken!' the voice rebuked him. 'He had only one prayer, which I answered. And if not for that, you would not have received any of My blessings.”
Puzzled with that reply, the first man asked the voice, 'Tell me, why you say so? What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?'
The voice replied, 'He prayed that all your prayers be answered.'
A simple story, but a profound meaning. For all we know, most of our blessings may not be the fruits of our prayers alone, but those of another praying for us.
We might pride ourselves for what we are, often referring to oneself as a ‘self-made’ person. But such thoughts only go to prove how little we are aware of the fact that behind our success there are the contributions of many people. Right from our peers and friends, to our near and dear ones who do their bit silently out of love for us; our success certainly is not a fruit of our efforts alone. We are what we are because we are part of a family, a member of a society.
And greatness lies in not only acknowledging this but also in being grateful for this.
The least that we can do is offer our sincere gratitude to the society at large. Even praying for others' welfare is certainly a token of gratitude to society. For, as Alfred Lord Tennyson has remarked: “More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” We cannot know for sure how God answers our prayers, but our part is to pray, sincerely and selflessly. And then, the magic will inevitably happen. It is for this reason that every session in the Divine Presence of Bhagavan Baba ends with the dictum Loka Samasta Sukhino Bavantu – ‘May all beings everywhere be happy’.
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