August 14, 2025

Krishna (कृष्ण) with Radha (राधा) and
Two Attendants (recto)

Thursday:
When is it proper to pray? | August 14, 2025

As I covered in the post from July 28: "...prayer is the most sacred form the material action of ascending above the Earth takes and the object of why this ritual is performed is a profound question that cannot always be easily answered...", but whenever it is proper to pray for someone, something, or in order to ventilate and to clear your thoughts, can be a rather hard question to answer, but that is what I am going to attempt to do here today. I don't want to rehash the examples from the post wrote on July 28, you can look that up on your own, but I will write this: there are situations or circumstances in which I and many with me would consider prayer inappropriate, and this can be due to multiple reasons: maybe the person or the object you are praying for has brought the divine vengeance upon themselves; maybe you aren't actually praying for that person or that thing, for you are lost on an ocean of chaos and confusion; maybe you aren't actually praying for the betterment of the all, for you are motivated by your own selfish and personal vengeance either against that person or that object; or maybe you want to pray but you are unable to pray for that particular person or object, something I've already covered in my example about the boss and the worker form July 28th. If you are attempting to pray but you don't actually want to pray, you are essentially committing a grave lie and you are also bastardizing God and making him out to be something false and not of this world when he indeed created everything in existence, and that means that your prayers aren't only false, they're not and you're not working towards the overall betterment of all sentient life – the Bodhicitta. This means that you are in a sense waking the Earth as a false prophet, for you are proclaiming to be a son of the creator (Yahweh) but you are indeed acting as a servant of the serpent as you're working and operating towards the destruction of the celestial order and the harmony of the nature, for it is anti-natural to lie and anti-natural to put out into the cosmos falsehoods that will radiate outward and create in their path destruction and hopelessness, all things meant to further the agenda of the beast and to promote the thrill of entropy, something that can only be said to have shaken the world and has indeed shaken the world for this is the fundamental reason for our current dilapidated state: modern man's embrace of the great lie. It is indeed the fact that modern man so willingly and so openly lies about his intentions that has driven the acceleration towards the close of this our era of the Kali Yuga, and in an equally absurd and self-defeating spiral towards destruction modern man not only keeps lying, but he has increased the number of lies and the size of his lies, which has further enabled the decay and the degeneration; essentially the modern world can be described as an impossible and invariable misadventure in the pursuit of becoming liberated from the laws of the celestial order. This is why it is of cardinal value to know when it is or can be said to be appropriate to pray or to issue prayers, and I do want to just make a quick distinction here: there is surely a difference between praying for something abstract, and to the extent that your prayer is expressing your true intentions about this rather abstract moment or object or setting I do not think you are committing a false prayer; a false prayer is really a prayer committed not in good conscience. A false prayer is in my view a prayer that you know to be false, as in the example with the working man wishing to pray for his boss that he earnestly dislikes, which should provide enough reason for any far-seeing man to understand why it would be quite inappropriate for the working man to pray for his boss that he does not like. Do not issue false prayers, for they may just come true, and then you exist in rebellion against the creator and indeed his whole creation; a false prayer essentially puts you outside of time.

    So if you should not issue false prayers how can you know before you pray that you are not about to pray in bad conscience you may ask? Well, this is a question that I at first didn't intend to answer for the answer seemed to obvious to me, but I realize that the answer actually isn't that obvious, especially not during the times of the Kali Yuga, for many of you are probably already living in a lie, and that would make it not so strange if you had no idea how to know whether or your prayers were issued in bad conscience. If you know that the thing that you are praying for is not what you actually wish for, then you must be strong enough to admit this to yourself and frankly not pray, for it is wrong and immoral to pray in good conscience, and while I can understand that you may not understand that this is a bad thing, you must realize that it is a bad thing and that you are immoral if you conduct this sort of business, for the seed of the serpent is planted when you go about the world in bad conscience and your soul will suffer and your closeness to the creator will suffer as you essentially remove yourself from the sacred and divine influence – the source. Also, if you are operating for the benefit of the all, how can anything in the existence truly be improved by you issuing false prayers? I am trying to be sympathetic, a feeling I do not enjoy receiving, but the creator does not have any obligation to feel sympathy for your wayward ways, even if you make the claim that you were manipulated into receiving the great falsehoods of the serpent. Of course a question that I should answer though, is whether or not it is appropriate to ask other people to pray in your place, a topic I've lightly covered, and to that I want to say/write this: if the person you are asking to pray in your place can pray in good conscience and is in their right mind, I would see no issue in asking another person to pray for you, with you, or in your place, even a stranger, all though it can be harder to ascertain these things about a stranger.

Krishna (कृष्ण) Vanquishing the
Crane-Demon Bakasura (बकासुर)

    I also believe that it would be inappropriate for a person to issue a prayer to someone that is of noble rank, provided that the person praying is not of noble rank themselves, for they should be praying that they find the light and indeed they could instead ask the man of noble rank to pray for them, which was common place in the past, but would likely be considered a social faux pas by the humanist axiom, or rather the social norms derived from this essentially and fundamentally false assertion about both the nature of the world and the nature of man. In the end, it is not appropriate to do a lot of things and I can go on about the positions you should pray in, for many people choose to lie down when they pray, something I consider to be inappropriate, but not necessarily a grave violation, but really just a somewhat rude way to come nearer to thee (The Creator, Yahweh).

    In closing this post out I want to continue to make remarks about the importance of properly following the teachings of all great metaphysical traditions and worldviews and do note that almost all of them call on your to embrace celibacy, for this is an essentially pure and moral attitude and mode of being, particularly in a world that is falling apart all around you. ꯀꯥꯏꯅꯔꯁꯤ – Goodwill to all men, even those of the serpent in true line with the concepts of Radical Peace!

Reginald Drax – August 13, 2025.