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The Forms That Prayers Take Match the Source of the Prayer in the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many people formulate their prayers in the form of thoughts,
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  and they are repeated according to a strict formula and ritual.
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  In that case, if the mind is actively engaged in the prayer,
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  it carries the power of the mental focus to tune the being
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  to the frequency of the being who is the object of the prayer.
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  Mental prayer generally requires an active linking to the will to
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  become more than just mechanically repeated words with
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  no energy behind them. But not all prayers are mental
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  formations. Prayers can also arise from
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  deeper in the being, from the vital level or the emotional
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  being, or even from still deeper from the psychic being.
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  In the case of a vital source of the prayer, it can enhance the
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  aura or vital envelope of the person doing the praying and
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  thus will take on the general form of that individual.
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  The prayer arising from the psychic being embodies a
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  palpable aspiration that unites the individual with the divine
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  in a way that the more external forms of prayer cannot do.
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  A disciple asks, do prayers and aspirations also take a form
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  like thoughts the Mother observes?
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  Quote Yes, at times they take even the form of the person who
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  has the aspiration or makes the prayer.
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  Often that depends. Aspiration sometimes takes the
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  form of that to which one aspires, but most often and
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  specially, prayers clearly take the form of the one who prays.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
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  Mother Powers within Chapter 9. Aspiration and prayer, Age 84.