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A Sikh Prayer
A Sikh Prayer
SWAMI SWAROOPANANDA
The following excerpt is from a new book Tu Thakur Tum
Pe Ardaas: Lord, Receive My Prayer that has not yet been
published. We are very grateful to Swamiji for allowing us to
reproduce this excerpt in Tapovan Prasad.
The Editor
prayer is a submission. It
is an offering in humility,
gentleness, and complete
surrender, expressing servitude
and love. It is verily a whisper
from the soul. It reaches out in
confidence, with faith the
faith of a child who puts his
little hand into that of his
parent and wills himself to be
led.
A prayer must therefore
know the One Being prayed
to. We want to know who it is
in whose hand we are placing
ours, who it is whom we trust
to lead us.
Our prayers, worship, and
our conversations with the
Lord are quite often requests
for something be it an object,
a feeling, or resolution of a
confusion within. We go to
Him with a petition.
Tapovan Prasad
62
November 2009
T hkuru is an ards, a
submission that is done after
worship and krtan at the
gurudwr. The moment of ards
is also when we submit
ourselves to the Lord, when
after the earlier worship
through ritual or chant, we
prepare to unite with the Lord
in surrender. This beautifully
simple ards constructs an inner
environment with the bricks of
prayer, gratitude and surrender, founded on the faith that
He is the giver, the provider,
the parent, and that we need
work only as instruments do,
with unconditional trust and
devotion.
Ards means prayer, or
prrthan. Prayer is always
directed to someone higher or
greater than ourselves. Prayer
is to connect with that Higher
Power. The saints and sages
point out that Higher Power to
us in many different ways. We
pray in order to achieve
through that Higher Power
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