A Prayer in Questions for 2025

Begin the new year with a prayer of questions—honest, searching, and full of longing. From Amritapuri, this reflection invites us to pause, reflect on what matters, and move forward with purpose and connection.

From Amritapuri, where practice deepens and thoughts flow freely, I offer this prayer for the year ahead. It’s not a list of answers or resolutions but a collection of questions—honest and searching.

These words come from a place of longing, faith, and curiosity. They’re a way to sit with the unknown, to reflect on what matters, and to ask how I can move through the world with more purpose and connection. I hope they might inspire you to pause and reflect on your own journey too.

To what end?
Dreamt, also, of what?
What?
What do I desire?

How can I help?
What is my part in this?
Do I have your blessing?
How can I do justice to my relationship to God with words?

Devrais-je écrire cette histoire dans ma langue maternelle?
D'où vient ce désir brûlant de vérité?
Alors pourquoi me priver de ce qu'il y avait de plaisir dans ce monde maudit?
Qu'est-ce que Dieu?
Qui suis-je?

How does it feel to be here?
Where is the integrity of the storyteller?
What do I need to learn right now?

If all is within, how do I still the tumult, quieten the mind, to find and perceive the infinite, effulgent self?
What is its purpose?

Where are the unexamined shadows?

What desires are running amuck, unchecked?
Can I bring my life further down to the level of need?

Do I owe anything to my old friends?
Am I holding on to outdated ideas and modes-of-operation?
Does peoples' opinion of me alter my thinking and behaviour?
What needs to die?
How can I devote more of my days to the remembrance of god?
Do I owe my father anything?
Do I need anything from my parents?

Am I at ease?
Is writing a worthy endeavour?
Do I have anything to say?
Would my life benefit from more structure?
What am I doing that is a distraction from the goal?
What is the goal in my life?

Am I meditating at all?
What impedes me?
How many layers are there to this pain?

Do I have to do /do/ anything?
Is my productive habit a hindrance to my spiritual growth?

Can I improve my capacity for concentration and visualization?
Will I remain forever dedicated to my practice?

Do I need to remain on social media?

Will the form of god whose name I chant in my mind all day appear to me, in wake+dream?

Which of my projects are a waste of energy?

Which projects are important?

Does my career matter to me?

Am I still attached to the idea of name+fame?
When will I wake up?

Is the mountain of my ignorance so insurmountable?
What must I let go in order to put god at the center of my life?

Do I put too much emphasis on my social life?
Do I need to?
Am I afraid to be alone?
Do I get bored?
How can my home life support daily practice?

What am I addicted to?
How's the state of my asceticism?
Do I want to be understood by others?
Do I believe I have the power to elevate others?
Do I think I am above others?
Have I learned a thing?
Am I fulfilled?
Can the notions of "I" and "mine" be released?

Does it matter that the mind is already always searching for the next thing?
Do I have to teach?
Do I want to?
How else can I learn?

Will you bless me with more dreams?
Will you bless me with insight?
Will you grace me with concentration?
Will you grace me with meditation?
Will you show me the way?
Will you grant me ease?
Will you show me the path?
Will you hold my hand?
Will you remove my burdens?
Will you strengthen my resolve?
Will you move me to selflessness?
Will you grant that I may help?
Will you give me the chance to serve?
Will you show me my place?
Will you dissolve my ego?
Will you make me god's instrument?
Will you help me to practice?
Will you help me always remember you?
Will you help me to see, hear, and breathe god?

But what is meditation?

Can time itself dissolve?

How far lost was I until I met you?
Am I to be out in the world?
Is life to be a series of adventures, moving me to and fro?
Are you to keep pushing me back into the whirlwind of vanity and materialism?
Why do we believe in the existence of things?
Is it best to educate myself for making a living, or to learn how to live?
What is this foolishness?
Have I been too intellectual?
What's the middle ground?
Where?
With who?
What are these tools to achieve?
What will you do with them?
What am I trying to prove?
That I'm somehow special?
That I've been imbued with unique knowledge or powers that make me better than others, thus above menial labour?

The start of a new year is a time to ask, to dream, and to open ourselves to change. These questions aren’t meant to solve anything but to remind me to stay curious, to keep listening, and to honor the journey. As the year unfolds, may we find peace in the asking, patience in the waiting, and clarity in the quiet moments. May we carry our many questions with us, letting them guide us toward what is true.

Meditation is whatever helps us see the underlying unity within diversity" - Amma

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