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Prayer= Contradictions

Life seems entirely different now a days, where ever I look I see contradictions, may be b’coz of the thoughts I have been bearing recently.  I have been thinking about this particular word lately and it literally gave me sleepless nights. “Prayer” is that word, that thought, which invoked my utmost curiosity for the first time in my life. Not that I haven’t heard it before, but I didn’t actually give it a thought that, how this particular word sounds so……….. alien, so …… contradictory to our reasonableness. Now I really wonder how people can pray without being selfish and indulgence.  I realise how selfish I had been, by praying to almighty (who ever that is, if any one exists ). Most of our prayers fall in the category of “petitionary prayer”. When ever we pray we are in need of something, we pray like we are submitting a petition.  People pray for various reasons, most of the time it would be personal or at least related to oneself. I can’t possibly imagine any one who prays