Contains a selection of choicest prayers of universal appeal from Sanskrit scriptures, together with their English translation. For those who want to know why they should pray and what they ought to pray for, it gives the necessary guidance through its Introduction. These selections from Vedas, Puranas, Tantras and Sanskrit hymns are all expressive of the deep spiritual longings and realizations of the Hindu race.
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.
-Swami Vivekananda
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