Preface - Thought Power

This instructive book carries in itself a life-transforming value. None who reads it, with the needed interest and attention, will ever feel inclined to remain unchanged in personal nature and untransformed in conduct and character. A good deal of careful judgment and confidence would assist us in asserting that no one who reads this work, will fail to resist the readiness to make of his own will a Power that alters and exalts his own life and destiny.   

The work is fraught with implicit guidance for turning our personalities into forces of compelling influence and charm, and for rendering our lives into so many grand stories of the epic unfoldment of the Divine Truth we enshrine, the Divine Light we bear, and the Divine perfection we hold in our inner Being.   

This, then, is a simple, straightforward, inspiring book that holds out many methods for the culture and nurture of Thought Power. It is also a work that prevents us with many useful suggestions which enables us to reach a region beyond the terrain of Thought and its power, a realm of transcendental Experience and God-consciousness.  

Helped by his own illimitable Love for all humanity, and dictated by the logic of his untiring energies for the service of every man, Sivananda has made himself extremely useful to all kinds of people, to men in all walks of life, and has written books on a rich diversity of themes in his own illuminating and Spiritual way.   

Embodying in himself the very Spirit of the whole of Indian Spiritual culture, Sivananda has poured out on mankind hundreds of gifts of the books the enshrine Wisdom of Life. The present work will commend itself, and will yield many rewards, to both the lay public and the community of Spiritual individuals. It will be found very valuable more particularly by persons who, while not believing in any religion, not given over to love any God, not subscribing to any article of Faith, are yet eager to live a life of power, purity, peace, prosperity, happiness and fulfillment, right in the environs of their work-a-day world.  

Sivananda has attempted implicitly to present in this work, a dynamic knowledge of Thought Power at these three distinct fields:- 

1. THE FIELD OF HIGHER APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: Here Sivananda speaks of Thoughts as forces that chisel countenance, fashion character, change destiny, and make of life an all-round success.  
2. The field of a FULL-FLEDGED PARAPSYCHOLOGY: This field is covered by those widely scattered passages and chapters in this work, which throw illumination on the fact that human Mind is the seat and centre of a number of supernormal powers and factors. Sivananda urges the readers to tap these powers, and to make operative in their outer life, the various higher faculties they command.  
3. THE FIELD OF TRANSCENDENTAL REALIZATION: Wherever Sivananda prescribes a method for, or speaks of Thought-transcendence, he is attempting to lead us into the domains of Divine Realization in which Thought ceases to be Thought, and blazes into Infinite Consciousness.  

This works, then, represents Sivananda to the readers, in a way, as a practical psychologist, a physicist and chemist in the world of the phenomenon of Thought, a parapsychologist, a Yogi, and thus helps them build their future, gain their success in life, and acquire the power to manipulate Thought and wrest from it the extraordinary power it holds.  

The book will also help them to attain refinement and culture by Thought-discipline, use their capacity for releasing wholesome, constructive and inspiring Thought-vibrations, obtain by accomplishing something great and grand, peace, happiness, and gain God-realization which is the meaning, aim, and ultimate destiny of all human life on earth.