Thought
Power for God-Realization
The thought that you hold, will manifest in your life. If you are
courageous, cheerful, compassionate, tolerant and kind then these qualities
will manifest in your physical life. The only impurity of the mind is
base thought and desire.
Guard your good thoughts as an alert watchman guards the treasury.
When there is not the ‘I’-thought then there will be no other thought.
Life is an interplay of thoughts. Duality ceases when the mind stops
its function. Thinking is bound by the time-factor. Thinking must cease. Then
alone you will attain the Timeless. Be still.
Let all the waves of thought subside. In that stillness, when the mind
melts, there shines the self-effulgent Atman, the pure Consciousness. Watch the
mind. Watch the thoughts. Pursue serenity. Make your heart a fitting abode for
the Lord.
The molten gold, which is poured into a crucible assumes the shape of
the crucible. Even so, the mind assumes the form of the object which it
pervades. The mind assumes the shape of any object it intensely thinks upon. If
it thinks of an orange, it assumes the shape of an orange.
If it thinks of Lord Krishna, it assumes the form of Lord Krishna. You
must train the mind properly, and give it proper Sattvic food for assimilation.
Have a Sattvic background of thought or mental image.
The same thoughts which are entertained by the man during the day,
occupy his mind during dream also. If you have purity and concentration, you
can make the mind assume any Bhava you like. If you think of mercy, your whole
being will be saturated with mercy. If you think of peace, the whole being will
be pervaded with peace.
It is the mental Bhava or attitude that determines the nature of an
action and brings its fruits. Watch your Bhavana, ideas and feelings always.
Your Bhavana should always be Sattvic. You should always entertain
Brahma-Bhavana. Watch the Bhavana during the meditation. You need not watch the
breath.
The thoughts you create in your mind and the images you form in your
daily life will help you in making what you are or what you want to become. If
you constantly think of Lord Krishna, you will become identical with the Lord.
You will abide in Him for ever.
Your mind must be empty of all worldly thoughts. It must be filled
with thoughts of God and with nothing else. Keep your mind filled with good,
divine, sublime lofty thoughts, so that there will be no room for evil
thoughts. Never speak any unnecessary word. Never allow any unnecessary or vain
thought to occupy your mind.
The best medicine or panacea for all diseases and for keeping good
health, is the entertaining of divine thoughts. The waves released by divine
thoughts, by Kirtan, Japa and regular meditation, will electrify, rejuvenate,
vivify, energise the cells, tissues, nerves.
Another cheap and potent drug is to keep oneself always joyful and
cheerful. Study Gita daily, one or two chapters with meaning. Keep yourself
fully occupied which is a remedy to keep off thoughts of worldliness.
Fill the mind with Sattva and enjoy wonderful health and peace. Obtain
an association with the wise, cultivate faith, serenity, truthfulness, courage,
mercy, devotion, love, cheerfulness, confidence, divine thought and divine
virtues.
Allow the mind to run in the spiritual direction, in divine grooves;
your mind will be peaceful and generate harmonious vibrations. You will enjoy
excellent mental health and have no physical disease.
Sit in a solitary place and watch your thoughts carefully. Allow the
monkey mind to jump in its own way for some time. After some time it will climb
down. It will become quiet. Be a Sakshi or witness of the menagerie of various
thoughts in the eternal circus or show. Do not identify with the thoughts. Take
an indifferent attitude. All thoughts will die by themselves one by one.
Repeat mentally, “Om I am Sakshi. Who am I? I am thoughtless Atman. I
have nothing to do with these false mental pictures and thoughts. Let them roll
on. I have no concern with them.” All thoughts will perish. The mind will
perish like the gheeless lamp.
Fix the mind on the form of Lord Hari or Lord Siva or Lord Krishna or
your Guru or any saint like Lord Buddha or Lord Jesus. Again and again try to
call this mental image of the picture. All thoughts will die. This is the
method of Bhaktas.
Sit peacefully. Discriminate. Dissociate yourself from thoughts and
the mind which is the thinking principle or entity. Identify yourself with the
innermost Self and stand as a silent witness or Sakshi. Gradually all thoughts
will die by themselves. You will become one with the supreme Self or Para
Brahman. Continue the practice of mental quietude. It does require, doubtless a
direct effort to annihilate the mind.
You should annihilate the Vasanas first. Then alone you will be able
to do the Sadhana of mental quiet vigorously. Without producing Vasana-Kshaya,
no mental quiet or annihilation of the mind is possible.
“Win friends and influence people”: This Dale Carnagie principle is
but a leaf out of the ancient Indian volume on psycho-spiritual science.
Practice Yoga; the entire world will worship you. You will unconsciously
attract to yourself every living being; even gods will be at your beck and
call. Even among wild beasts and bloody brutes you will “win friends.” Serve
all; love all. Unfold your inner powers through the practice of Raja Yoga,
through the control and conquest of thought power.
Through the practice of Yoga, you can make the whole humanity and all
living beings members of your own family. Through the practice of Yoga you can
overcome all difficulties and can eradicate all weaknesses.
Through the practice of Yoga pain can be transmuted into bliss, death
into immortality, sorrow into joy, failure into success and sickness into
perfect health. Therefore, practice Yoga diligently.
Generally there is no genuine spiritual awakening in students. There
is mere curiosity for getting some psychic or Yogic powers. That student is far
from God as long as he retains some hidden desires for Siddhis. Strictly
observe the ethical rules.
Transform the worldly nature first. If you become absolutely
desireless, absolutely thoughtless, absolutely Vrittiless, if the mental
Vrittis are destroyed in toto, Kundalini will ascend by itself, without effort,
through the force of purity. Remove the dross of mind. You will yourself get
help and answer from within.
The Yogi who has developed his powers of thoughts, has a magnetic and
charming personality. Those who come in contact with him are much influenced by
his sweet voice, powerful speech, lustrous eyes, brilliant complexion, strong
healthy body, good behavior, virtuous qualities and Divine Nature.
People derive joy, peace and strength from him. They are inspired by
his speech and get elevation of mind by mere contact with him.
Thought moves. Thought is a great force. A Yogi or sage can purify the
whole world with his powerful thoughts though he remains in a solitary cave in
the Himalayas.
It is not necessary that he should appear on the platform and deliver
lectures and discourses to help the people. Sattva is intense activity. The
wheel that revolves very rapidly appears to be at rest. So is Sattva. So is a
Sattvic man.
Life is a journey from impurity to purity, from hatred to cosmic love,
from death to immortality, from imperfection to perfection, from slavery to
freedom, from diversity to unity, from ignorance to eternal wisdom, from pain
to eternal bliss, from weakness to infinite strength.
Let every thought take you nearer the Lord, every thought further your
evolution.
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