Prayer

Born brought up in a Brahmin family, I was taught to pray everyday.

Praying is a compulsive behavior now.

I pray everyday.

The basic Indian style of praying is- praising god.

That’s what I do too.

While this Christmas, on my way to the Church, I asked myself, what actually is a prayer?

Is prayer, a begging before the God? Is prayer, a selfish mode of soliciting the memorandum of your wants?

At that time I realized…

There are three possibilities:

1.       Perfect possibility (something that is sure to happen, without efforts involved. Falling night, rising Sun, changing seasons et al, hence we never pray for it, just thank the lord as a whole)

2.       An absolute impossibility that Is utterly non questionable (An absolute impossibility is what we never pray for. Have you ever prayed to become a girl, if you are a boy, or the vice versa. We never pray, to live forever.)

3.        Something that we want to become a possibility- an imperfect impossibility.

We pray for a longer life for our beloved ones, we pray for beauty (as girls) and wealth (as boys), which is a part of the imperfect possibility.

Hence, we never encroach into absolute impossibility part, and the perfect possibility. The praying area prevails between these two only- something that lies above possibilities and below impossibilities.

Probably it was designed by the Almighty this way itself, so as to leave an area of life uncertain in between- just like it is designed between the earth and the sky.

What is on ground and what is beyond the skies is certain.

Rest is a horizon and a myth and a prayer…