Prayer Itself Is Enough
Patanjali says God is only an excuse to pray. It is like a peg on the wall to hang your coat. If the peg is no there you can hang your coat somewhere else. You can hang it on the door, on the window, anywhere. Patanjali has great insight when he says that God is just a peg, because it will be difficult for you to pray, hence God has been invented. Ordinarily, you think prayer is a means to reach God. Patanjali says God is only a means so that you can pray. But it is only for the beginners: to help them.
God is a device: a device to help you to pray, according to Patanjali, one of the greatest masters of the world. Once you have learned to pray, forget all about God. Prayer itself is enough, more than enough.
Prayer means surrender. Prayer means bowing down to existence. Prayer means gratitude. Prayer means thankfulness. Prayer means silence. Prayer means, “I am happy that I am.” Prayer simply means, “This tremendous gift of life is so much for such an unworthy man like
me.” Seeing it, gratitude arises.
Yes, absolutely yes. Only then you will know what godliness is, and only then you will know what love is, and only then you will know what being religious means, what it is all about.
