According to Osho, if there is no God, prayer has no place in religion: it is God-oriented, thus baseless, humiliating begging addressed to nobody. All prayer is extroversion that keeps you away from yourself. True religion turns inward; replace prayer with meditation. Stop pleading to a fiction; become inwardly alert, self-reliant, and sovereign—meditation transforms a beggar into an emperor.
If no one’s there to hear, praying is like asking the sky for candy—better sit quietly, look inside, and grow strong yourself.