Love and prayer are two experiences of the same energy. Love is more earthly, prayer is more unearthy, but the experience is the same.  Love has a limitation to it; it is person to person.  Prayer is unlimited, it is from a person to impersonal existence.  And it is from the person to impersonal existence only in the beginning; because when you relate with impersonal existence your person is lost.  It is like a dewdrop slipping into the ocean; it cannot remain any more a dewdrop, it is bound to lose its boundaries. It will become the ocean.  It is not losing anything, it is gaining everything, but the old identity will be gone.  But the problem is, unfortunately very few people know what love is – what to say about prayer? Love is experienced by very few people, rare people, because love also demands many essential things before you can experience it.  If your mind is full of anti-love attitudes it is impossible for love to exist.  It cannot exist with jealousy, with possessiveness, with ego, with hatred, with anger; it cannot exist.  They are all anti-love phenomena; they destroy the very possibility of love.  Then people go to the churches and temples and their prayer is false. Prayer is the ultimate flowering of love, it is the fragrance of love.  A man who has known love deeply, intensely, who has been able to drop his ego, jealousy, possessiveness and all nonsense will naturally move towards prayer. If to love one person is so beautiful, how much more will it be to love the whole existence.  That’s prayer.