Significance of Secrecy in prayers

• To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
• Subject: Significance of Secrecy in prayers
• From: gopal@ecf.toronto.edu (GOPAL Ganapathiraju Sree Ramana)
• Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 11:48:49 -0500
• Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
• Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
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[also posted to s.r.v.]

I am curious to know the significance of secrecy
in prayers. Almost all prayers wil end up saying
that  they are secret.  Probably it is meant for
guiding the gurus: to impart the mantra or stotra
to a student only when one shows adequate maturity.
or could there be some other explanation? with the
print media (and electronic media) developments
the assertion of secrecy of each stotra is no more
valid.... if the literal meaning is taken (as i
have).

Examples:
 idam rahasyam hrud'ayam  sarva kaama phala prad'am
 japaha pancha sahasranthu puraScharanamuchyathe'
              Lakshmi hrudayam

 mahaa mahaa gupthe`     
              D'e`vee Khadgamaala stho`thram

 guhyaath guhyatharam param 
              Laksmhi Asht`o`ththaram

 go`pyame`thathsad`aa kuryaanna sarvathra prakaas`aye`th
 ithi guhyathamam s`aasthram pro`ktham brahmaad`bhihi puraa
              Naaraayana Hrud`ayam

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