Princess Febri: Guru, may I ask a question? You have taught us that we have to feel peace and we have to pray to Allah, but how can we develop patience in a difficult situation?

Sri Chinmoy: If you keep praying, praying to Allah, He is full of Compassion, infinite Compassion. Just because Allah is not listening to your prayer right now, you cannot say that Allah will never listen to your prayer.

For everything there is a special time. My meeting with King Sinoehoen came at a special time. Before that I came to Indonesia, but I did not meet with him. Here everything needs patience. When you sow a seed, you cannot expect a tree immediately. It takes time for the farmer to plough the ground, and it will take months to germinate. Then it becomes a tiny plant, then it becomes a tree, and then it becomes a huge tree. Patience is needed.

In our case, when it is a matter of a few months or years, we become tired. We feel that if God wanted, if Allah wanted to fulfil our desire, then He would have fulfilled it by this time. But every-thing has its own time. Now the question is, are you doing the right thing? Are you praying to Allah early in the morning to keep your family happy, to give you peace every day?

Then comes how much sincerity is involved when we are praying. At that time if we think of this and that, all kinds of things, then our prayer cannot be very sincere or intense. You are doing the right thing, but then intensity is needed. How intense is your prayer? If you love God and God loves you, then there shall definitely come a time when you will see that whatever is best for you, Allah will do. At this moment, what He is doing is the best thing for you.

There is a constant battle between divine forces and undivine forces. In the beginning if undivine forces win, the victory is short-lived. It is not forever. Divine forces ultimately win, but we need patience. There is nothing else you need except patience. But your prayers, regular prayers, have to be more sincere and more intense.

At this point I can only make a suggestion to you, to look at my Transcendental Picture. You will pray to Allah, but once in the morning and once in the evening kindly look at my Transcendental Picture. This will help you. You are not praying to my Transcendental – far from it. You are praying to Allah. But my Transcendental Picture is a real, real friend of your heart. This picture will help you to bring down Allah’s Grace, Allah’s Compassion, Allah’s Blessings.

When you are praying to Allah, if there is a flower or a beautiful scene of nature or something else to inspire you, it will help you. If you pray early in the morning, you can look at the vast sky or the sun to help your prayer. You are getting so much inspiration from the rising sun and nature all around you. In exactly the same way, while you are praying, occasionally you can look at my pictures. This one especially will inspire you to intensify your prayers and meditation. It is like a friend who is helping you to get the thing that you need.

Injustice cannot rule the world or lord it over the world forever. God is both God the Compassion and God the Justice. Now He is using His Forgiveness with people who are doing wrong things. But a day will come when He will use His Justice-Light. At that time, those who are doing wrong things will not be allowed to continue. They will be punished in God’s own Way, Allah’s own Way. What you need is only patience, patience. This is the only way. But do not neglect morning prayers and meditation.

It is good that you pray and meditate five times a day, in accordance with your Muslim faith. When you pray, try to feel that your prayer is more sincere and more intense. You can easily know whether your prayer is extremely sincere, extremely intense and extremely soulful. We do many things mechanically. Again, we do many things very soulfully and sincerely and self-givingly. If you see that something is missing in your prayer, kindly add that thing to your present prayer.

And one more thing, please, when you pray to Allah for the things that you need, specially pray for the protection of your children – protection, protection, protection. Every day when you pray to Allah, please add to your prayer the protection of your sweet children, beloved children. Pray to Allah, “Protect them, protect them, protect them.” Please add protection in your prayer.