How to Pray Effectively
Ask Me About Truth, Episode 99
Swas I Kriyananda shares thoughts on the best ways to pray for others — and whether one tshould go to "heroic measures" to save someone's life.
Questions include:
- When someone that we know is in need of healing, or in some other urgent situation, what is the best way to pray for them?
- Modern medicine has no made it possible for people to get stuck in a kind of limbo place — they aren't able to experience things consciously but are stuck in their body. Is it still helpful for people to hang on to life in a situation like that?
- Is suicide ever appropriate or helpful?
- What about assisted suicide (euthanasia), if someone is just hooked up to machines... ?
- When praying for someone, is it helpful to visualize a particular result for that person?
- Are prayers for others effective?
- How can we learn how to concentrate better?
- Some people find their meditations deeper in a group — how can they bring that depth into their own private meditations?
