‘The other way to create intensity in our prayers is to pray as though there is an emergency. You will realize that if there is an emergency in our lives or there is fear or a great want, suddenly our prayers become exceedingly intense and our focus is right and there is a yearning and plea in our call which is usually absent when we sit to pray. If we are in trouble, somebody is sick, you are petrified about something, the intensity in prayers increases countless number of times more than normal. During an emergency, the intensity in our prayers is so strong that it can rarely be matched at normal times. It is as if our entire lives and all that is sane and peaceful, depend upon your prayers being heard, thus the focus which one’s prayer takes on during such times is incomparable. There is a plea, a cry, a yearning, which is never there when everything is fine or as good or as bad as it usually always is. And then when things settle down, the emergency is a distant memory, our prayers become a part of another to-do list, to be done with and gotten over with. When there is nothing extraordinary taking place our prayers too are very ordinary. Thus, the intensity of prayers is directly in proportion to the emergency or lack of emergency at hand. If things are really low then our prayers reach a greater height. Those times our plea to the Oneness Family comes from the depth of our very being and it is as though each cell has become one with the prayer, which is more like a cry for help. And when all is normal, the intensity of our prayers seem to be more of a formality, a mere routine. Thus, pray as though it is the last time you shall get the honour to pray but also pray as though the life of our loved ones depends on our prayers.’

‘Also pray with the firm belief that you are being heard. Pray with the firm conviction that our prayers are going to reach our Goddess, God and Guru, and believe that whoever we are praying to, our prayers shall reach Them. Imagine Them hearing you, be it from Their celestial abode, be it within you, be it standing in front of you. Can you imagine if you prayed being assured that your prayers are being heard, how beautifully intense your prayers shall be? Imagine if you were certain that your Goddess, God and Guru were standing in front of you, attentive to all that you prayed for, wouldn’t your prayers take on a different intensity? When we are assured that our Goddess, God and Guru, is either hearing us, seated in front of us, within us, or hearing us from Their celestial abode, our prayers shall take on a different intensity.’