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Vocal or oral

That is to say a prayer offered by means of tongue or words of mouth. It consists in repeating some set prayer as recorded in scriptures or as given by this or that Mahatma as a model prayer. Some feel that such prayers are not of much consequence. A prayer in fact is not a mere repetition of particular words but an anguished cry of an individual soul arising from its deepest depths. Such oral prayers may be likened to borrowed clothes which never fit the borrower. As models these are very valuable and we should try to make such impassioned appeals directly from the innermost recesses of our mind, truly depicting our feelings and emotions.