Prayer, or seeking help is intelligent living

The universal perception of every individual is that I am a different, limited and insignificant being. Everybody feels he has been cornered by events in life and he is in a corner.

Even though everybody feels this way, nobody can accept this  feeling or be happy about it either. Hence everybody is in fighting  mode all the time, to be happy. 
We feel joy when being 'included' or 'get connected' to the whole.

We want to be part of a group. If somebody does not recognize and say hi, that is a reason for unhappiness. If we look at our day to day life instances, the sense of limitation makes us suffer and the elimination of this sense of limitation gives us Ananda, joy.
Every action is driven by this need, to get connected to the whole. In other words to remove the feeling of separation.

This is the secret of the motivation behind any discipline of study or any seva, social service. There is joy in helping somebody in distress. One crosses the sense of limitation at one's level of identification, whether it is home, community or the whole nation. 
The larger the perimeter of one's identification, the more sensitive I am, to my fellow beings.

So if 'getting connected' or 'to be included' by some action is the secret of happiness, what shall I do, to feel happy all the time?

Because any action is limited, a limited action can produce only a limited result. Also, why does one feel the urge to get connected all the time?

While the identifications are at relative levels, according to Vedanta, it is possible to have an absolute identification. 

The sense of isolation can be removed by the understanding that there is no real separation. For the broken iceberg, is there a cause of separation from water? It just needs to know that all the time it is water. So this is what the Veda says, one is happy by nature, one is not limited by anything, you are the limitless!

If that is so why do I not see this fact? Well, it is a question of understanding. For any understanding to take place, one needs preparation, preparation of mind. That is why one goes to school and then to college.

Similarly we seek help, when we understand our limitations in our ability or resources. But when everybody around is limited in their capacity to help whom shall we turn to? Swamiji drew the example of Arjuna seeking help from Lord Krishna here. After all we are all warriors like Arjuna fighting our own individual battle. 

According to Swami Dayananda, seeking help is intelligent living. This is what a scientist does when he uses a microscope to see micro organisms.

We need the help from the being who has all the wealth and all the knowledge. Prayer is the means to seek that help.