What is the power of prayer for children? How do I pray for kids?
We all know that we should not get angry with the child or say hurtful words or scold them or beat them. But there will be times when things go out of control and we end up hurting our child and later feel guilty that we should not have hurt the child. Param Pujya Dadashri has shown us the ultimate way to wash our past misdeeds by recognizing the power of prayer for children.
By Pratikraman (apology coupled with remorse for any wrongdoing), we wash out our negative feelings from our heart. It changes our negative belief about the other person we become angry with. So, the negative vibration stops from our side and eventually, the other person will not have complaints about us. This is the most powerful key that works for all parents.
How to do Pratikraman?
If you become very angry with your child, then you do not have to ask her in person, but ask for forgiveness from within and resolve that you will not do it again. Otherwise, if you don’t hurt them, then you don’t have to ask for forgiveness. The Soul within all of us, and vibrations reach the Soul within.
If you start thinking negatively about them, you must immediately do pratikraman.
Prayer
Whenever you feel very deeply that you are saying things for your child’s benefit but they are not listening to you and on top of it ask you to stop lecturing. Because it just drains your energy, and your words lose their impact. At such times when spoken words are not working and you want your child to improve - prayer is the ultimate tool. Prayers are more fruitful than mere words. If words are worth twelve cents, then prayer is worth a dollar. Such is the power of prayer for children.
Things keep recurring because we have not done prayers for them in the past. Now through prayer and pratikraman they will gradually vanish. You can ask for strength from your God, Guru or Dada and tell Him that you are placing your child in His hands. Ask for his salvation and your child will be cared for. Ask for strength for yourself to guide him in the right direction with love and understanding. Just do a ten minutes prayer daily for a month and gradually you will see the change. Like we brush our teeth daily, some good things like prayer and pratikraman are to be done daily to wash the negativity.
When the child does not change even after trying repeatedly, Pratikraman is the key!
You should express your disapproval on the outside, but from within, you should have sambhaav (equanimity or to remain undisturbed). So, the children will realize that “There is no abhorrence from my father towards me.” He screams externally, but from within there is no abhorrence from the father. Then tell him that we are well-respected family, etc. so then he will change his bhaav (inner intent), that it is indeed not worth doing this. What does he decide? He will decide that this poison is not worth drinking.
He would decide that this is not worth doing anymore. He will do such bhaav in his mind. At first, he will not tell his father. Then he will tell him that it happens even it is not his wish to do so. At first, we have to ask if he is doing it deliberately, or it happens? So then, he will say, “I do not want to do it.” There were two or three times when I did not want to go and I still ended up going in. So, even children know that they do not want to do it and yet it happens. When they say that it happens even when he does not want to, we should realize that they have turned around, their understanding has changed. So, then you should tell them to do pratikraman now. Whenever it happens, say, "Dear Lord! I did that today, for which I ask for forgiveness, and I will not do it again.” Teach them such pratikraman; that is all.
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