What should be our ideal attitude while praying?

[Shri Jayesh Pandey asked: 1. Dandvat Namaskaram Swami ji! What should be our ideal attitude while praying? Does a mere recitation of a mantra or hymn fruitful? Is praying dependent on time? The more we pray, the better? While developing devotion to a form of God, how should be our thinking towards the deity? When I chant Hanuman Chalisa, how my thoughts should be towards Hanuman ji?]

Swami replied: While praying to God, think about His divine and marvelous qualities remembering various incidents occurred with Him, and then pray with your heart ignited with love and excited by emotion.

2. Does the implementation of any kind of spiritual knowledge happen by itself, something we don’t have to worry about?

Swami replied: To know that God is the greatest based on divine qualities itself is the essence of the spiritual knowledge.