Prayers..  (GOD listens everything..)

I was reading a story titled “PRAY”. It starts with a very little 5 year girl who is in the midst of life and death fight… and her friend, a seven-year-old boy, who has no one else on this earth except a true friend, is sitting on the terrace and looking at the stars. Probably searching for some Godly figure in the wide sky, wishing if he could complete his search & then have a long chat with GOD or probably waiting for his prayers to be listened….

As soon as I finished with 5^th page of the book, I found my self lost in some deep thoughts. First question that stroked into my mind was, “Why do we pray”?? Why we always wish all our prayers to be answered?? Why do we need to pray?? Is there anything (our needs, desires, wants, thoughts, sorrows…) which is hidden from the Almighty?? Is there any single thing that is hidden from him? Even our deepest thoughts? He knows everything. Our eyes are the mirrors, which reflect our thoughts. Isn’t That? If  yes.. then why do we have to ask for the things from Him? Message, which can be sent through our heart, why do we need words for that?? Thoughts loose their value as soon as they are formed into words. There is a lot of difference between what we think & how do we say that.. Moreover, there are many thoughts that can’t be shaped into words. Not even if we wish our hardest.

Then its not that we pray for small, beautiful things OR we pray only to think of GOD & to thank him for all that he has given us.. Rather, we actually pray for very strange, real stupid & absurd things.. Things which we need irrespective of any logic.. If anybody listens our prayers, he will dissolve into laughter.. We pray for a particular thing on a particular day and than after a few days, we get influenced by something or the other & then pray for something else.

Two people in the same house wish for two different things at the same time.. But GOD love all his children equally.. How difficult it must be for him to choose the child whose wish is to be fulfilled and whose not??? Ok lets take an example..

Two brothers, Sagar (elder one), who recently got engaged & Sameer (younger one), a die-hard cricket lover. On a pleasant morning (with cloudy sky), both of the brothers have different wishes. Sagar wishes the the rain to come so that he can spend more time at his fiancée’s place where he has planned to go (going for the very first time). If it starts raining once he reaches his destination, he will be able to spend more time with his beloved. But at the same time, Sameer has his final match, which will be spoiled if the rain comes.. So he prays for exactly different to his brothers wishes (prays for a clear weather with no signs of rain).. Now, GOD, who loves both of them equally must be in confusion on whose prayers are to be listened and whose not..

Then we experience that many of our prayers aren’t answered. Even if we pray a hundred times a day, GOD doesn’t answer. I have listened from elderly people that at times, the things, which we pray for, are actually not good for us. So GOD doesn’t answer. Had those things been good for us, GOD would have already given us. And we realise these facts little later, after a certain period of time.

We ask almost everything from GOD. We cry, we shout, we whisper, we beg and what not….??? All this just to send our messages to the Almighty. But all these words don’t come from the heart, from our soul.. Our heart doesn’t accompany us while praying, it is always (not always, but certainly 90 - 95% times) in it’s own sweet world. And even we try to take our heart along with us, it’ll never listen..

Then if we talk of rest of the 5 – 10% of the times, when we pray from the bottom of our heart, our soul… GOD listens, our prayers got answered.. Even though we don’t transmit our deepest thoughts in the words, we keep mum, do not speak even a single word, GOD listens everything..