Prayers To God Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

‘Wishes are granted and sins, forgiven.
Surrender to God; he is the saviour. ‘
Religions profess and scriptures ordain.
God create, preserve and terminates all lives.

It means the God is taken as personal.
He is given a name and a form too.
Many miracles in His name are made.
People are under the spell of a god.

It’s a myth that one’s prayer is answered.
It’s not that every wish is fulfilled
Or that all who are praying are answered.
God cannot make both contestants victors.

Rational thinking demands a diversion
From praying to God as someone in form,
To praying to a phenomenon
That runs the universe, if you need it.

The prayer shall be a determination
To acquire equanimity to face things,
And to retain the nature of gratefulness
To all that happen to you favourably.
16.10.2015