22 May 2014 - QA 5

Gurudev, if God is everywhere, why are we told to pray in the prayer room only?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You can pray anywhere, but if you sit and pray in one room you make the vibrations very nice.
You can eat anywhere, you can eat in the verandah, you can eat sitting in the drawing room. But there is a dining hall where you sit on the table, and there is water, there is everything, isn’t it? Like that, when you eat, you have a place to eat. So it is nice to keep a place to sit and pray also.
You can sleep in the living room, you can sleep on the sofa, why do you only go to the bedroom to sleep? Because there is some arrangement. Similarly, in the pooja room there is a little arrangement. There is a lamp burning, there are some flowers kept and you can sit there and do your prayers.