When certain things are destined to happen they will happen. When people pray for events to happen in a certain way and succeed, it is because destiny was also the same. My view is that the prayers of good people are answered better in the good yugas when mostly good things are destined to happen. Good people are disappointed in the latter yugas because it is the bad things that mostly happen. I think this is deliberate because evil is supposed to rise and prevail in the latter yugas and for that to happen, belief in God should dwindle. The 4 yugas are all about creating all possible circumstances for a soul to learn or unlearn
I also believe that in a kalpa the first half, the evil is on the rise and peaks after which more and more spiritual events begin to happen. I believe we are at the turning point now since it is now approximately the mid point of the kalpa.
With the belief that good intents and efforts are more likely to be rewarded, I plan to go beyond routine prayers and actively use the ways that have I employed successfully in the past to see if active spiritual efforts can solve the problem of missing plane. Given my experiences in the past I think if it works it should work very soon.
I also believe that our own inner self after all is the God.
So it is now more intense and active efforts and those who believe in this philosophy could do the same and hopefully we will see the results very soon.
Dear Shri Sravna,
The M'sian government cannot obviously go on prolonging the search for the missing plane indefinitely. So, some announcement/s will be made in the coming days or weeks and I don't think prayers will affect these developments in any significant way.
However I am glad to observe that you have now admitted what I have been saying all along, viz.,
"our own inner self after all is the God" and there is no other god out there anywhere.
Given some more time and perhaps more experiences, I am sure you will also come to the conclusion that all the notions/ideas/theories about yugas, kalpas, soul learning, etc., etc., are all nonsense and nothing else. Of course yugas and kalpas, manvantaras, brahmaahas/brahmaraatri etc., can be convenient time measurements like Yotameter, parsec, gigaparsec, light years etc., are for distances. Nothing more.
Prayers bring favourable "answers" if and only if the concerned person has enough balance of good karmas from the past to tide over his/her present difficulty/crisis; otherwise the prayer will not be answered and that explains in a nutshell as to
why bad things happen to (apparently)
good people. In the present instance of MH-370, it is a question of the Karmas of 239 different individuals and imho, prayers will be of no use in changing their destiny.