People indulge in prayers asking god `God give me this, give me that, and save me.' They are seeking in prayer is not God, what they are seeking is security and happiness. Ultimately what they want with prayer is well being, they are not willing to admit it.
The first step is to know the true self is not `I' but the witness of the `I', which is the formless soul, then only it is possible to cross the threshold of limitations /duality mind.
If one sincerely looks at his deepest motivation for religion, he will see he has never aspired for the truth/self. His aspiration was never for the ultimate. His aspiration is for comfort, for wealth, for power, pleasure. Everyone thinks God is a tool to achieve all those things. When he is seeking protection or materialist things, greed and fear have become the basis of his prayer and attachment to the personal god.
Ordinarily, one thinks prayer is a means to reach God, but what does he really know about God? If we are truthful, he must admit he have no direct experience of God; he is coming from a particular belief system. The danger in using prayer to reach a God, he has no direct experience of, can be illusionary. Thoughts and prayer can open a person but at the same time they can create hallucinations.
It is time that one to realise the fact that looking to God will not help until he looks at his own ignorance. God cannot exist without man. Man cannot exist without the soul. Thus man and his belief of god are dependent on the soul. The personal god can exist only in experience of duality [waking/dream]
The soul is inherent in everything and everywhere in the three states. Therefore the duality [`I'/waking/
