Church leaders believe that the Youki-tsutome is a prayer asking God to sweep our own minds. But is this correct? In the Ofudesaki, it appears that the Youki-tsutome is a prayer to save others. It initiates God’s guidance of illness to help people understand the function of their own soul. When people understand their own soul, they can begin to purify their minds. Verse 3-59, and 3-60 tells us God places illness as guidance to the people we have spread the teachings to. These guidances are initiated by our performance of a simple prayer asking God to help us sweep the minds of others. This convincing of the soul does not stop with the presence of the illness. For those people that understand God’s guidance, they are encouraged to come to our places of worship to heal the guidance given by God. God has granted us a special prayer, the Osazuke to heal God’s guidance. This opportunity also gives us further time to instruct the person on the soul, and how to purify the mind by themselves. This is how we spread our teachings to the world.
Two Special Prayers
This wrong application of these special prayers is why our teachings of the soul to purify the mind are not spreading to the world. We in the church must understand what information God wants us to spread to the world, and we must understand our two special prayers. Without our understanding of the Ofudesaki, the world will continue to suffer.
