When We Are Praying Know That God Is Hearing Us Better Than We Are Speaking. Gita 18.62
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Yes. When we are praying, know that God is hearing us better than we are speaking. Suppose we are speaking with someone and we sense that they are not really hearing us.
We may get that sense because they may not be offering us either attentive ear or an understanding heart. Either way, when we feel unheard, we naturally feel annoyed with them. But suppose they aren’t hearing us because we aren’t able to speak clearly.
Our thoughts and emotions are such a confusing jumble that we just can’t find the right words to express ourselves. In this case, we feel annoyed with ourselves. Either way, either because of their lack of receptivity or our lack of ability, we aren’t able to communicate with them.
Thankfully, such obstacles don’t impede our communication with God. When we try to pray to Him, He hears us better than we are speaking because He is supremely attentive and supremely perceptive. Attentive.
The Bhagavad Gita states, He is present in the heart of all living beings and is there with us through thick and thin. So He is present in our hearts just for our well-being. So He is never inattentive to our welfare and is supremely perceptive because He has been with us through our multiple lifetimes in material existence, all our lifetimes in material existence.
So He understands as He gets us. Even if we aren’t able to articulate our hopes, our fears or whatever it is that is churning our inner world, He still gets us. Despite His supreme attentiveness and perceptiveness, communication still doesn’t happen often.
And that’s because we don’t turn to Him. We don’t try to connect with Him for the sake of developing a relationship with Him. We connect simply so that He will do the things for us that we are unable to do.
He will provide our material, He will fulfill our material desires. However, He knows what is best for us better than what we do. He hears all our prayers, even our unarticulated or poorly articulated prayers and He reciprocates by addressing our deepest needs.
All He wants from us is that we turn to Him, that we offer Him our attention, our consciousness. Therefore, when we are praying, we needn’t worry whether He is hearing or whether we are speaking clearly. We can just focus on offering our consciousness to Him and He assures that if we thus turn to Him in devotional surrender, He will grant us inner peace and eventually grant us entry to the eternal abode of undisturbable peace.
1862 says, तमेवशरणं गच्छ सर्वभावेन भारत प्रसादाद परामशान्तिन् स्थानं प्राप्सिशाश्वतं So by turning to Him in prayer, to offer our heart to Him, we will let Him take us to the place of supreme safety and satisfaction. Thank you.