Dear Sravna,
So that means daily we need to focus on rape,murder,violence and corruption??
Do you realize that the mind is focusing on crime instead of God?
Sravna..simple Loka Samastha Sukhino Bhavantu will suffice..I am yet to see any prayer that starts off with the words depicting crime in the real sense.
Prayers too were Universal and not for the sake of one 'owns country.
I am certainly not going to start my day with hoping and praying that someone's testosterone levels wont spike when he sees a female!
Sab Ko Sanmathi Dey Bhagawan too will be enough.
Dear Renuka,
Self improvement comes by analysis and identifying every problem. Even for those who see the whole, the problem with the whole can be rectified only if the problem with the parts are rectified. That is the reason God has provided us with analytical thinking and to see the parts.
I think it is not wrong to focus on specific problems as that in fact indicates we recognize the specific problems and can take corrective measures to solve them. Similarly even though we can pray in a general way, focus gives much better results for the problems, as even God would want us to be aware of them and do something about them.
It is only a violent mind that sees violence in everything but a peaceful one does not see that even in things of violence. So we are not focusing on crime when we pray that those crimes should not happen and our intent of peace only pervades.
Basically we have two different philosophies existing in the world. The nations like the USA and the rest of west believe that things can happen only by planning and actions and no such thing as spiritual powers. Their philosophy is based on cold logic. There are others especially those who have faith in Indian philosophy that things are caused by divine acts covertly though sometimes overtly. I happen to belong to the latter school of thought.
I believe that there is a meaning to each and every act that happens even a seemingly trivial one and all such acts are geared to make self learn consciously or otherwise and progress towards liberation.
I believe in actions too. But actions should produce results. In a time like the present where each and every one of us is ruled by ego, good intention and sincere efforts alone will not work with people who should be taking actions to make things better. But fortunately good intention and sincerity works with god. As I said everything is a divine will just my own actions are also willed by God. People have been acting on divine will in the way they are acting and have arrived at the logical extreme.
What remains to happen is only self destruction. But the bigger plan of god I would believe is to make them see the folly of their actions and learn from what all they have done. I think the time is ripe for that and for people of cold logic to realize that they have failed to see the script of God and misunderstood the real nature of events in their lives.
I think myself or any adherent of spirituality would not profess any special role than others as everything is a divine act and as I said we are just playing out the divine will for our own liberation.
So I think there is a real role for prayers too and let us see if our combined prayers can have an effect on our problems and if so we can show that there is something more than cold logic