World Day of Prayer and Action for Children 2024 is on Friday, December 20, 2024: What is new in your world?

Friday, December 20, 2024 is World Day of Prayer and Action for Children 2024. DPAC logo.jpg Youth and World Day of Prayer

This is Knew in My World EveryDay!!!

1.Each morning upon rising, and each evening before sleeping, give thanks for the life within you and for all life, for the good things that Wakan Tanka ---Creator has given you and for the opportunity to grow a little more each day. Consider your thoughts and actions of the past day and seek for the courage and strength to be a better person. Seek for the things that will benefit others (everyone).

2.Show Respect. Respect means “To feel or show honor or esteem for someone or something; to consider the well being of, or to treat someone or something with deference or courtesy.” Showing respect is a basic law of life.

o-Treat every person from the tiniest child to the oldest elder with respect at all times.

o-Special respect should be given to Elders, Parents, Teachers, and Community Leaders.

o-No person should be made to feel “put down” by you; avoid hurting other hearts as you would avoid a deadly poison.

o-Touch nothing that belongs to someone else (especially Sacred Objects) without permission, or an understanding between you.

o-Respect the privacy of every person, never intrude on a person’s quiet moment or personal space.

o-Never walk between people that are conversing.

o-Never interrupt people who are conversing.

o-Speak in a soft voice, especially when you are in the presence of Elders, strangers or others to whom special respect is due.

o-Do not speak unless invited to do so at gatherings where Elders are present (except to ask what is expected of you, should you be in doubt).

o-Never speak about others in a negative way, whether they are present or not.

o-Treat the earth and all of her aspects as your mother. Show deep respect for the mineral world, the plant world, and the animal world. Do nothing to pollute our Mother, rise up with wisdom to defend her.

o-Show deep respect for the beliefs and religion of others.

o-Listen with courtesy to what others say, even if you feel that what they are saying is worthless. Listen with your heart.

3.Respect the wisdom of the people in council. Once you give an idea to a council meeting it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the people. Respect demands that you listen intently to the ideas of others in council and that you do not insist that your idea prevail. Indeed you should freely support the ideas of others if they are true and good, even if those ideas are quite different from the ones you have contributed. The clash of ideas brings forth the Spark of Truth. Once a council has decided something in unity, respect demands that no one speak secretly against what has been decided. If the council has made an error, that error will become apparent to everyone in its own time.

4.Be truthful at all times, and under all conditions.

5.Always treat your guests with honor and consideration. Give of your best food, your best blankets, the best part of your house, and your best service to your guests.

6.The hurt of one is the hurt of all, the honor of one is the honor of all.

7.Receive strangers and outsiders with a loving heart and as members of the human family.

8.All the races and tribes in the world are like the different colored flowers of one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Wakan Tanka---Creator they must all be respected.

9.To serve others, to be of some use to family, community, nation, and the world is one of the main purposes for which human beings have been created. Do not fill yourself with your own affairs and forget your most important talks. True happiness comes only to those who dedicate their lives to the service of others.

10.Observe moderation and balance in all things.

11.Know those things that lead to your well-being, and those things that lead to your destruction.

12.Listen to and follow the guidance given to your heart. Expect guidance to come in many forms; in prayer, in dreams, in times of quiet solitude, and in the words and deeds of wise Elders and friends.

Wahoo!!!

Why are only certain people's prayers answered?

Prayers are answered for believers. Sometimes God says Yes sometimes No and other times Wait. We dont know the reasons for all the way he answers prayer but it all works out for good. When we see a child starve it makes our actions to see that another doesnt starve. So that child did not die in vain. We do our best to help others and God sees that. All in this world is not evil just look into a childs eye. See there hope,innocence and trust for us parents? That is how we are to see God. I hope you see the light and if you dont have a relationship with Him you soon will. Repent and be baptized. Peace out..................

HINDUISM; HINDUS; What is PRAARTHANA (PRAYER)? Why we do it in the Morning hours? Why should one do Prayer ?

Good question. i will try my level best to answer this question. i will be happy if it gives you satisfaction. Now we will go to the answer.

my answer: 1. what is prarthana(prayer) 2. why we do in the morning hours? 3. why should one do prayer? 4. can we do prayers in the midnight?

Answer in detail:

1. what is prarthana?

Prarthana can be described as we asking God for internal courage to do Purshartha (karma or work) for enhancing our happiness. For example asking for the divine help in practicing Satya in our behaviour, communication etc. In other words, the request for Nishrayas (Atmik pleasure or pleasure for the Soul) like knowledge, concentration, purity etc. is called Prarthna.

2. why we do in the morning hours?

After coming from the bed, we clean body by taking bath and wearing fresh cloths. The morning hours are the pleasant time to think god and to do prayers wearing sacred Tilakas or sacred ash. Morning hours always have freshness and in the present days we run for jobs, or business and our concentration be diverted after morning hours. so, it is generally morning hours best to perform pujas, prayers, prarthanas. Further, Spiritual activities performed early in the morning have a greater effect than in any other part of the day.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy is known sayings which is known to all. This is not only make healthy, but also make wealthy and wise. Morning hours is the time when the day’s activities begin, children have to get ready for school, mothers have to prepare food for the family and office-goers begin getting ready for work. The morning hours has tremendous importance in our lives as it is the time when we can invest our energies in developing our sattvika content. It is a time when the mind is calm, free from distractions of the world and the intellect fresh from a good night’s sleep. Thus one is able to focus the mind on absorbing Vedantic knowledge. This morning hours must be optimally utilised because the spiritual path is about developing knowledge.

3. why should one do prayers?

The ancient Indian philosophers elaborated three ways for self-actualization -GYAN, the path of knowledge, KARMA, the path of action and BHAKTI or the path of devotion. It is the third path of Bhakti which guides the individual to submerge himself, his ego, his pride and his arrogance in his devotion to the almighty lord of universe. Prayers are a means to this end. Prayers make individual happy and feel a kind of satisfaction. Prayers are considered an essential part of bhakti. Prayers help people in three important ways. First of all, regular prayers are reminders to self that there is an almighty Lord of the universe who is always there, aware of everything and capable of taking care of us. Since the Lord is benevolent and fair, and rewards everyone as per their deeds or KARMA, it is a belief that provides hope to the people that good will prevail over evil. This is one of the most important factors for people having faith in our values, fairness and humanity.

Second, by being able to express their faith, people are able to relate to the god whom they cannot otherwise experience or observe, and this simple activity reinforces their faith in an omnipotent power of universe and helps them sustain their belief.

Third, prayers are often said or sung together in temples or in homes, and this common activity performed while thinking about the God helps people to develop a common bond of faith that extends to each other as well, thereby fostering a society based on trust and dependability.

Prayers in Hinduism are the simplest act to express our faith with God and his fairness. For ordinary people, it is also the most common means to reinforce their faith and develop a social understanding of abiding by the rules of fairness and truthfulness. Hinduism has incorporated many kinds of prayer (Sanskrit: prārthanā), from fire-based rituals to philosophical musings.

4. can we do prayers in the midnight?

Many temples doing midnight poojas on selective days. we can worship god and do prayers in the sacred places like Temples and participate.

Finally, we can do pujas, prarthanas daily if we have some saligrams or like vigrahas. The vigrahas and saligrams need daily pujas. if we unable to do such pujas, we can give Dana to learned pandits who do pujas daily.

Thanks for the opportunity!!!