Releasing the Wall - 04.29.10

Student Question: If all there is is consciousness, and in reality nobody’s praying to nobody, then why is it that when you pray, the pray manifests?

“Well, because you don’t realize that,” clarifies Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “The ego actually thinks it is a separate body. The ego is alienated from this truth. And so what it is praying for is the realization that it is One with the Supreme Awareness. . . . And the prayer is the act of opening consciousness to its own infinite nature. So ultimately, yes, the prayer is to the Self—but it is from a fragment of the Self that had been walled off from the whole. And it is praying for that wall to be released.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 29, 2010.