Prayer was an integral and important Part of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal and public life. In his personal life, Mahatma Gandhi used prayer as a means of communicating with god and purifying and disciplining himself. In public life he extended the meaning of prayer beyond religion and spirituality using it as a means of bonding with the people and building a sense of community and harmony. Divided into three sections this book presents Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts and views on the meaning and practice of prayer.
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Meaning of And Necessity for Prayer |
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| What is Prayer? | 13 |
| True Prayer | 14 |
| True Worship | 15 |
| The Greatest Binding Force | 15 |
| Prayer is all Inclusive | 16 |
| Meaning of And Necessity for prayer | 16 |
| Prayer is Necessary for all | 19 |
| Man Cannot live without Prayer | 20 |
| Hypocrisy of Lip Prayer | 20 |
| Why Pray? | 21 |
| The Object of prayer | 22 |
| Spontaneous Upwelling of the heart | 23 |
| A Man of Prayer Knows No Fear | 23 |
| Why Recite his name | 24 |
| Beauty of repetition | 25 |
| No faith in Prayer | 26 |
| Why No Faith in Prayer | 33 |
| Have Faith | 33 |
| God’s Word | 35 |
| Nirbal key balram | 35 |
| The Only Help of the Helpless | 37 |
| God’s Covenant | 38 |
| Secret of Self Control | 39 |
| A Call of Repentance | 41 |
| Visitations | 42 |
| Inner Voice | 44 |
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Forms and Methods of Prayer |
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| Yajna | 49 |
| How I Establish Communion with God | 49 |
| The Form of My Prayer | 50 |
| Service is Prayer | 51 |
| Resign to His will | 54 |
| How to and Whom to Pray? | 56 |
| Punctuality at Prayers | 58 |
| God’s Time Never Stops | 59 |
| Never Miss Prayers | 60 |
| Attendance at Prayers | 61 |
| The Spiritual value of Silence | 63 |
| Silent Prayers | 65 |
| Silence During Prayers | 66 |
| How I Introduced Congregations Prayer | 67 |
| Congregational Prayer | 68 |
| Co-operative Prayer | 70 |
| My Faith in Public Prayer | 71 |
| Crowds attend my Prayers | 71 |
| Individual Prayer | 71 |
| Concentration during Prayers | 73 |
| Compulsory Prayer | 74 |
| The Malady of Intolerance | 75 |
| Fasting and Prayer | 76 |
| The Truest Prayer | 79 |
| The Inner Meaning of the fast | 81 |
| The Use of Images in Prayer | 82 |
| Idol Worship | 83 |
| Idolatry Vs. Idol worship | 84 |
| Worship in temples | 85 |
| Are Temples Necessary? | 86 |
| Are Places of Worship a Superstition | 89 |
| Why no temple in the Ashram? | 91 |
| A Model Temple | 92 |
| Nature’s Temple of worship | 94 |
| Tree Worship | 95 |
| Atmosphere for Prayers | 97 |
| The Place of Prayer in Ashram Life | 97 |
| The Ashram Prayer | 106 |
| About Prayer at the ashram | 109 |
| Time Taken up by Prayers | 111 |
| Prayers especially for women | 112 |
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Ramanama |
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| A Good Seed Sown | 121 |
| Who Is Rama? | 121 |
| Power of Ramanama | 123 |
| A well Tried formula | 125 |
| Ridiculing Ramanama | 125 |
| Ramanama Must Not Cease | 126 |
| Ramanama and National Service | 127 |
| Ramanama | 128 |
| References | 129 |
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Prayer was an integral and important Part of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal and public life. In his personal life, Mahatma Gandhi used prayer as a means of communicating with god and purifying and disciplining himself. In public life he extended the meaning of prayer beyond religion and spirituality using it as a means of bonding with the people and building a sense of community and harmony. Divided into three sections this book presents Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts and views on the meaning and practice of prayer.
|
Meaning of And Necessity for Prayer |
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| What is Prayer? | 13 |
| True Prayer | 14 |
| True Worship | 15 |
| The Greatest Binding Force | 15 |
| Prayer is all Inclusive | 16 |
| Meaning of And Necessity for prayer | 16 |
| Prayer is Necessary for all | 19 |
| Man Cannot live without Prayer | 20 |
| Hypocrisy of Lip Prayer | 20 |
| Why Pray? | 21 |
| The Object of prayer | 22 |
| Spontaneous Upwelling of the heart | 23 |
| A Man of Prayer Knows No Fear | 23 |
| Why Recite his name | 24 |
| Beauty of repetition | 25 |
| No faith in Prayer | 26 |
| Why No Faith in Prayer | 33 |
| Have Faith | 33 |
| God’s Word | 35 |
| Nirbal key balram | 35 |
| The Only Help of the Helpless | 37 |
| God’s Covenant | 38 |
| Secret of Self Control | 39 |
| A Call of Repentance | 41 |
| Visitations | 42 |
| Inner Voice | 44 |
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Forms and Methods of Prayer |
|
| Yajna | 49 |
| How I Establish Communion with God | 49 |
| The Form of My Prayer | 50 |
| Service is Prayer | 51 |
| Resign to His will | 54 |
| How to and Whom to Pray? | 56 |
| Punctuality at Prayers | 58 |
| God’s Time Never Stops | 59 |
| Never Miss Prayers | 60 |
| Attendance at Prayers | 61 |
| The Spiritual value of Silence | 63 |
| Silent Prayers | 65 |
| Silence During Prayers | 66 |
| How I Introduced Congregations Prayer | 67 |
| Congregational Prayer | 68 |
| Co-operative Prayer | 70 |
| My Faith in Public Prayer | 71 |
| Crowds attend my Prayers | 71 |
| Individual Prayer | 71 |
| Concentration during Prayers | 73 |
| Compulsory Prayer | 74 |
| The Malady of Intolerance | 75 |
| Fasting and Prayer | 76 |
| The Truest Prayer | 79 |
| The Inner Meaning of the fast | 81 |
| The Use of Images in Prayer | 82 |
| Idol Worship | 83 |
| Idolatry Vs. Idol worship | 84 |
| Worship in temples | 85 |
| Are Temples Necessary? | 86 |
| Are Places of Worship a Superstition | 89 |
| Why no temple in the Ashram? | 91 |
| A Model Temple | 92 |
| Nature’s Temple of worship | 94 |
| Tree Worship | 95 |
| Atmosphere for Prayers | 97 |
| The Place of Prayer in Ashram Life | 97 |
| The Ashram Prayer | 106 |
| About Prayer at the ashram | 109 |
| Time Taken up by Prayers | 111 |
| Prayers especially for women | 112 |
|
Ramanama |
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| A Good Seed Sown | 121 |
| Who Is Rama? | 121 |
| Power of Ramanama | 123 |
| A well Tried formula | 125 |
| Ridiculing Ramanama | 125 |
| Ramanama Must Not Cease | 126 |
| Ramanama and National Service | 127 |
| Ramanama | 128 |
| References | 129 |
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