CHAPTER 12 - Thought-Power For A New Civilization

Pure Thoughts - Their Impact On The World 

The western psychologists and occultists lay great emphasis and stress on the purity of Thoughts. Thought-culture is an exact Science. One should cultivate right thinking and should drive out all sorts of vain and worldly Thoughts.  

He who entertains evil Thoughts causes great harm unto himself and to the world at large. He pollutes the Thought-world. His evil Thoughts enter the Minds of others who live at a long distance, because Thought moves with a tremendous lightning speed.  

Evil Thoughts are the direct cause for all sorts of diseases. All diseases take their origin at first from an impure Thought. He who entertains good, sublime and Divine Thoughts does immerse good unto himself and to the world also. He can radiate joy, hope, solace and peace to his friends who live at a distance.  

Thought-Power For World-Weal  

Karma is action and also the Law of Cause and Effect. All kingdoms below the human kingdom are "Mindless". Therefore, they cannot generate Thoughts. Further they have no idea of right and wrong, what ought to be done and what ought not to be done and so they cannot create Karma. 

Thoughts are solid things, more solid than a lump of sugar-candy. They have tremendous force or power. Utilize this Thought power carefully. It can serve you nicely in a variety of ways. But do not misuse this power at random. If you misuse this power, you will have quick downfall or a terrible reaction. Utilize it to help others.  

Thought Power For Cultivation Of Courage And Love 

Destroy ruthlessly the fear-Thoughts, selfish Thoughts, the hate-Thoughts, lustful Thoughts, and other morbid negative Thoughts. These evil Thoughts induce weakness, disease, disharmony, depression and despair.  

Cultivate positive Thoughts such as mercy, courage, love and purity. The negative Thoughts will die by themselves. Try this and feel your strength. Pure Thoughts will infuse in you a new exalted life. 

Sublime Divine Thoughts produce tremendous influence in the Mind and drive away evil Thoughts and change the mental substance. Mind is wholly changed into light by entertaining Divine Thoughts.  

Thought Power For An Ideal Life 

Entertain loftiest Thoughts. Your character will be exalted. Your life will be noble and ideal.  

But, different people have different mental backgrounds. People vary in their capacities, mental and intellectual, and in physical and mental strength to do things. Therefore each of you should have an ideal which is suited to your temperament, your capacity, and realize it with great enthusiasm and dynamic action.  

The ideal of one person will not suit another. If one keeps an ideal that he cannot realize, an ideal that is beyond his reach and capacity, he will get disappointment. He will give up this effort and become Tamasic.  

You should have your own ideal. You may realize it this moment or after ten years with faltering steps. It does not matter much. Everyone should endeavour his or her level best to live up to this ideal. Your whole energy, nerve-force and will must be put in the realization of this ideal.  

You can chalk out your own ideal yourself according to your own standard. If you are unable to do this, have your guide and he will select for you the ideal that is suitable to your capacity and standard.  

One should not treat a man, who has a low ideal, with contempt. He may be a baby-soul, who is just crawling now in his moral or Spiritual path. Your duty is to help him in all possible ways in the realization or accomplishment of his ideal. You should give him all sorts of encouragement in his sincere endeavour to live up to his own highest ideal.  

It is highly deplorable to note that the vast majority of persons have no ideal at all. Even educated persons do not cherish any ideal. They lead an aimless life and therefore are drifted hither and thither like a piece of straw.  

They make no progress in life. Is this not a very sad plight? Highly lamentable indeed! It is very difficult to get a human birth and yet people do not realize the importance of keeping up an ideal and living up to the ideal.  

The idea of "Eat, drink and be merry", is adopted by the Epicureans, the gluttons and rich people. This school of Thoughts has countless followers and the number is increasing by leaps and bounds daily.  

This is the ideal of Virochana. This is the ideal of Asuras and Rakshasas. This ideal will lead a man to the dark region of misery and sorrow.  

Blessed is the man who elevates his Thoughts, keeps up an ideal and struggles hard to live up to his own ideal, for he will soon attain God-consciousness.  

Thought-Energy For Service And Spiritual Progress 

Even as energy is wasted in idle talk and gossiping, so also energy is wasted in entertaining useless Thoughts. Therefore, you should not waste even a single Thought. Do not waste even an iota of energy in useless thinking.  

Conserve all mental energy. Utilize it for higher Spiritual purposes, in Divine contemplation, Brahma-Chintana and Brahma-Vichara. Conserve all Thought-energy and utilize it for meditation and helpful service to humanity.  

Drive away from your Mind all unnecessary, useless and obnoxious Thoughts. Useless Thoughts impede your Spiritual growth; obnoxious Thoughts are stumbling blocks to Spiritual advancement.  

You are away from God when you entertain useless Thoughts. Substitute Thoughts of God. Entertain only Thoughts that are helpful and useful.  

Useful Thoughts are the stepping-stones to Spiritual growth and progress. Do not allow the Mind to run into the old grooves and have its own ways and habits. Be on the careful watch.  

Help The World By Good Thoughts 

Like attracts like. If you entertain an evil Thought, that Thought attracts all sorts of evil Thoughts from other people. You pass on those Thoughts to others also.  

Thought moves. Thought is a living dynamic force. Thought is a thing. If you allow your Mind to dwell on a sublime Thought, this Thought will attract good Thoughts from others. 

You pass on that good Thought to others. You pollute the world with your bad Thoughts. 

Thought-Power And The Conditions Of A New Civilization  

Thought makes man. Man makes civilization. There is a powerful Thought-force behind every great event in life and in the history of the world.  

Behind all discoveries and inventions, behind all religions and philosophies, behind all life-saving or life-destroying devices is Thought.  

Thought is expressed in words and executed in deeds. Word is the handmaid of Thought, and deed is the end-result. Hence, the saying, "As you think, so you become". 

How to build a new civilization? 

By generating a new Thought-force.  

How to build a civilization that will ensure the peace of mankind, the prosperity of society, the salvation of the individual?  

By generating a Thought-force that will invariably result in man enjoying peace of Mind, that will instill in his heart the Divine virtues of compassion, of service to his fellow-men, love of God, and of an intense desire to realize Him. 

If but a fraction of the wealth and the time spent on wasteful pursuits and destructive activities is devoted to the creation of a GOOD THOUGHT, there will be a new civilization right now.  

Atomic and hydrogen bombs, I.C.B.M. and a host of other inventions drive mankind inevitably to destruction.  

They waste your wealth; they destroy your neighbours; they pollute the atmosphere of the whole world, and generate fear, hatred, and suspicion in your heart, the Mind is unbalanced and the body is subjected to diseases. Stop this trend.   

Promote research in Spirituality, in religion, in all the good things of life. Support the philosophers and Saints - the real benefactors of Mankind. Encourage them in their study of religion, researches in ancient Spiritual literature, and the projection of a great Thought-force for the good.  

Ban all literature that pollutes the Thoughts of the young. Flood the young Brain with healthy Thoughts, ideas and ideals.  

The man who commits murder, the man who steals your purse, the man who cheats you - Law punishes him. But this crime is insignificant when compared to the crime committed by the wicked intellectual who instills a wicked idea into the Mind of youth.  

He is the author of many murders that take place on earth; he steals your greatest wealth, viz., wisdom; he cheats you by presenting you with poison in the name of sweet elixir. The Law of the new civilization will deal very severely with such Asuric Beings.  

The new civilization will give every encouragement to those who wish to study philosophy, religion and Spiritual Thought. It will make their study compulsory in schools and colleges. It will award scholarships to students of philosophy. It will confer prizes and titles on those who conduct researches in religion and philosophy. The deepest urge in man - the Spiritual urge - will be given the fullest scope to realize its goal.  

The fruits of the New Civilization are well-worth all that everybody can do towards building it up. In the New Civilization man will want to lead a righteous life, he will be eager to serve his fellow-Beings and share with them what he has; he will love all, realizing that his own Self dwells in all; he will be devoted to the welfare of all Beings.  

What an ideal society it will be, where people share with others all that they possess, and will serve everybody! Where will be the need for taxes and duties in such a society in which everyone will voluntarily work for all? Where is the need for police and the army when people are devoted to virtue? 

This then is the ideal. Towards this end, let everyone strive to generate a Thought-force.

May God bless you all! 


Other Chapters Of THOUGHT-POWER By Sri Swami Sivananda:- 

Chapter 1: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-1-thought-power-its-physics-and.html

Chapter 2: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-2-thought-power-its-laws-and.html

Chapter 3: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-3-value-and-uses-of-thought.html

Chapter 4: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-4-functions-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 5: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-5-development-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 6: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-6-thought-their-varities-and.html

Chapter 7: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-7-positive-methods-for-thought.html

Chapter 8: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-8-patterns-of-thought-culture.html

Chapter 9: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-9-from-thoughts-to-thought.html

Chapter 10: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-10-metaphysics-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 11: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-11-thought-power-for-god.html 

CHAPTER 11 - Thought Power For God-Realization

Life - An Interplay Of Thoughts 

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.  

Thought Results In Spiritual Experience 

The molten gold, which is poured into a crucible, assumes the shape of the crucible. Even so, the Mind assumes the form of 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. You may embrace your mother or sister of your wife. The action is the same but the mental Bhava is different.  

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 forever.  

Thoughts Of God 

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.  

Divine Thoughts For Freedom From Diseases 

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, energize the cells, tissues, nerves.  

Another cheap and potent drug is to keep oneself always joyful and cheerful. Study the 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. 

Thought-Culture By Knowledge And Devotion 

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. Become a spectator of the mental bioscopic film. 

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 another method, the method of Bhaktas.  

Thoughts And Yoga Practice Of Mental Quietude 

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. 

Winning Friends By Practice Of Yoga  

"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. 

The Yogic State Of Thoughtlessness 

Generally there is no genuine Spiritual awakening in students. There is mere curiosity for getting some psychic or Yogic powers. That students 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.  

Yogi Of The Developed Thought-Power 

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 behaviour, 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.  

Thought-Boats To Infinite Strength 

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. 


Other Chapters Of THOUGHT-POWER By Sri Swami Sivananda:- 

Chapter 1: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-1-thought-power-its-physics-and.html

Chapter 2: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-2-thought-power-its-laws-and.html

Chapter 3: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-3-value-and-uses-of-thought.html

Chapter 4: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-4-functions-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 5: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-5-development-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 6: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-6-thought-their-varities-and.html

Chapter 7: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-7-positive-methods-for-thought.html

Chapter 8: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-8-patterns-of-thought-culture.html

Chapter 9: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-9-from-thoughts-to-thought.html

Chapter 10: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-10-metaphysics-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 12: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-12-thought-power-for-new.html  

CHAPTER 10 - The Metaphysics Of Thought-Power

Thought Power And Practical Idealism - I 

Man goes from bad to worse in the scale of life. He does not put his total strength in fit action; so he does not have the richest return of wisdom. Man is tormented by imperfections. Grudges are foaming in his Mind because his life is not flowing with right energy. The love of "me" is ever ready to accuse the other party. Objects of the Objective World are delicious torments for him. Still the man wants to stand on the firm basis of personal feelings. Torn by his personal passions, he is unable to establish proper and harmonious relations with others. He is always seeking his private felicity in every circumstance.  

Altar of Truth demands the oblations of mental rigidity, harshness, self-assertion, eccentricity and egoism. Train yourself for that Truth which knows no partiality, no sex, no wandering gleam, O man. There is stain of error in daily experience of man. That is why his life is defaced and disfigured. Men have become vinegar for each other's eyes by their wrong Thoughts.  

The ice of ill-will is chilling their heart. Men are bound to each other by every sort of tie, by blood, by pride, by fear, by hope, by lucre, by lust, by hate, by admiration, by every circumstance, but not by Spiritual love. This is all due to wrong Thoughts.  

The wise man makes an island which no flood can overwhelm. The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, but the odour of a wise man travels against the wind; he pervades every place by his Thoughts. He is like a snowy mountain which can be seen from afar.  

O man! If you fill your lamp with water you will not be able to dispel the darkness. Feed your lamp with the oil of right Thoughts. Let the right views become the torch to light your way. Do not seek to gratify your vanity and self-seeking pride.  

On the brink of Truth man is miserably dying. All evil Thoughts are embodied in bad physiognomies. But there is nothing to despair, because there is never darkness without light. There is always a sublime answer to every human need. All things are possible to those who believe in the possibility.  

O man! Raise your sight to right direction and use right Laws. Set in motion positive Thoughts. Remember your objective. It is easy to be diverted into an excursion into side-tracks.  

A holy Thought is a voice. It speaks when the tongue is silent. It struggles and comes out of all obstructions serenely and no power on the earth can suppress it for a long period. O man! Do not trade in unrealities. 

Do not try to embrace happiness in a thousand ways. The faster you will follow it the swifter it will fly from you. Do not become a thorn for yourself as well as for others.  

Change the direction of your Thoughts. Scrutinize your Thoughts. Where necessity ends, curiosity begins. No sooner you are supplied with everything, than you sit down and entertain the Thoughts of artificial appetites. That is why you have crossed the boundary of Law.  

By your own Thoughts you make or mar your world. Inevitable Law of Reaction is such, O man! that whatever you will harbour in the inmost chamber of your heart, will shape itself in your outward life. Chance seems to form the surface of reality, but deep down, Thought-forces are at work. Nothing in this Universe and in daily behaviour is merely accidental. So improve your Thoughts.  

Real action is in silent moments. Purified Thought revives the entire manner of life; it tells the man quietly "you have done thus but it were better done some other way".  

The Thoughts you entertain during the time of reflection, let them not become inaudible when you are engrossed in daily duties. Arm yourself with the sublime Thoughts.  

By no other way does one come directly to the knowledge of Truth, than through one's own thinking and experience. Divine Thought reduces centuries and makes itself present through all ages. Entertain Divine Thoughts.   

Thought Power And Practical Idealism - II 

Wash off the baser Thoughts with the help of higher Thoughts and when the washing is effected, cling to neither of them. The present state of your experience is due to the thinking, feeling and acting of incalculable past lives. It cannot be easily got rid of without prolonged process of thinking of and practice.  

Thought is ancestor of action. If you want to improve your actions purify your Thoughts.  

Become a staunch believer in Self-reliance and Self-effort. You can determine your fate by force of Thoughts. As clouds are the main source of rain, so the control of one's own Thoughts is the source of durable prosperity. You are yourself your own friend or enemy. If you will not save yourself by cherishing good Thoughts, there is no other remedy.  

Mind is the only creator. Everything is created through the Mind. It is absolutely free in creating a world for itself. Whenever the Mind is referred to as the Creator of external objects, it must be considered as the Cosmic Mind and a part of Ishvara Srishti.   

Whenever the Mind is referred to in relation to psychological functions such as love and hatred, etc., it must be considered as the individual Mind and as a part of Jiva Srishti. O man! The real God lives in your heart and the only way to worship the real God residing within the temple of your body is by your own sublime Thoughts. Stop the psychological functions of your Mind and see value only in sublime Thoughts.  

The nature of things around you is as you think it to be. Your life is what you make it by your Thoughts. Thoughts are the bricks by which you have built the building of your personality. Thought determines destiny. The world around you is the reflex of your Thoughts.   

You experience as you think. Your own imagination plays havoc with you. You have made yourself timid by entertaining the Thoughts of fear. Do not become liberal in imagination. 

You are affected by things only in accordance with your idea about them. The Mind sees value only in that in which it has intense faith. Though all of you see the same object, everyone of you attach to it different values. According to your mental propensities you think.  

Thought is a creative instrument, and man becomes what he thinks upon. Character is Thought-formed. You are born with what you have Thought upon, and your present character is an index of your previous Thoughts. You create your future by your Thoughts now; if you think nobly, you will be noble in conduct. If you think basely no environment will make you different. Thus, Thoughts and actions are interdependent. Be vigilant and allow only good Thoughts in your mental field.  

Everyone of you have a different conception of duty, value, enjoyment and liberation in accordance with your different convictions. You strive after your own ideal.  

You work in accordance with your long-standing and intensified Thought and belief. You accomplish and achieve the object of your own desire. Do not let your Mind become denser and denser by allowing it to be engrossed in gross forms. Follow the abstractive process by cherishing the Thoughts of virtue.  

Your present life has three aspects, physical, mental and Spiritual. You are tenaciously attached to the physical aspect. Be above physical sensations and other appetites by cherishing the Thoughts that you are not body alone, that you are residing in the temple of a body for a short period only. Be above mental titillations. Subjective action functions in the world of Thought.  

Send out a steady stream of Thought and good-will to all creation. The energizing motive behind every Thought should be service and friendliness.   

You are sensible of knack, skill and tricks, but there is an overpowering Law which confutes your tricky Thoughts and talents. So do not try to become partial half-light. This Law constrains everyone to pass for what he is. His Thoughts speak from his character and not from his tongue. Do not try to put on an artificial personality. Be genuine and clean in your Thoughts. 

The stream of Thought flows in both directions. When it is flowing towards good, it makes for freedom and knowledge. When it is flowing towards the whirlpool of existence, downward towards non-discrimination, it is then flowing towards evil. The thinking faculty, reaches its summit in light, when it acts according to ethical rules. 

You are the centre of individual willing, individual thinking, and individual feeling. The enchantment of time and place presents before you heavenly scenes which vanish like optical illusions. You have repeatedly allowed yourself to be mocked by them; that is why your chest is sawed by the friction of sighs, your discriminative power is dried up by the fire of knowledge. The Spiritual goal is held before you. How quickly or how slowly you move towards it, will depend on your Thoughts.  

Stand united with your higher Thoughts. You will achieve that goal which is bought by many failures. Become a non-seeker of personal ends and glory. Death will not easily come near you, if you will not wear on your bosom the necklace of vicious Thoughts. 

The bliss that accrues from the culture of Mind surpasses even the prosperity of the three worlds, or possession of all kinds of jewels, or acquisition of high office.  

Your Mind is Omnipotent. It is capable of accomplishing everything. As you imagine within your Mind, so things happen forthwith. Whatever is intensely Thought by your Mind, that comes to be materialized and effected.   

Your Thought is endowed with creative power. It can evolve objects from within itself. It is the only creator. Nothing ever will be created or re-created except through Mind. Thought is the material out of which things are made. All matter is but materialization of Consciousness.  

No other Being is responsible for what you acquire, as everything is the consequence of your Thought. The cause of whatever comes to you in life, is within you. No other agency can bestow favours on you, unless you deserve them.   

Whatever you get through others, is the outcome of your own Thoughts and efforts. There is nothing in the world which you cannot achieve, when your Thoughts are flowing in the right direction. You should neither become a pessimist nor a misanthrope. 

Creative power is the privilege of every Mind. Your own efforts guided by your aspiration are the warp and woof of your destiny. Do not possess a dissipated Mind by cherishing weak Thoughts. Superficial Mind cannot acquire depth of insight. 

Control the roving Mind by entertaining one flow of Thought. All that is intensely Thought by you, will come to you early or late, in accordance with the effort you have put in to acquire it.  

The extent of space as well as the duration of time are relative to your Thoughts and emotions. You experience as you think. If a moment is imagined to be a long period, it is experienced as such and vice versa. The same period of time is experienced as a long age when you are in trouble, and as a moment when you are happy. 

Such is the power of Thought that sweet is experienced as bitter and vice versa by intense Thought. You can turn poison into nectar. Think of Mera. She turned poison into nectar by her intensified Thoughts.  

You are surrounded by the forces of antagonism. But if there are no Thoughts of antagonism in you, you can easily return a blessing for a curse. Thus you can control all the forces of antagonism. Struggle hard and check the unwanted mental rush.  

The world around you is only what you believe it to be. Your perceptions are coloured by your Thoughts. Your Mind perceives and continues to perceive the things in that very form in which it imagines it to be with full faith. Pierce through and steel-armour of biased Thoughts, and try to see the Divinity in every object.  

It is by Thought alone that you get into delusion, undergo the experience of birth and death, are bound in the world and become released from it. 

All your states of happiness or misery in heaven or hell, are effects of your own Thoughts. Early or late, in this life or lives to come, all your passing Thoughts will be realized. So, discriminate nicely. 

Your present state has been willed by your Thoughts. You can change the present state into another by your own Thoughts. If you believe that you are separate from the Absolute, you are so. If you think yourself to be Brahman, you are so. You limit yourself by your Thoughts.  

With each Divine Thought, the Mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite and comes out into Eternity, but you are so negligent about your mental factory.  

Thought Power And Practical Idealism - III 

Your destiny is mapped out by your Thoughts. You have only that much power as you imagine you have. The world around you is as you have willed it to be. 

You are living in an Infinite ocean of power and cheerfulness, but you appropriate only so much from it as you think, believe and imagine. Due to certain propensities you cherish certain Thoughts, and you allow your Mind to forment. But by discrimination, you can easily give up the phantasy of Mind. 

The limit of your Thought is the limit of your possibilities. Your circumstances and environments are the materialization of your Thoughts. The world experience rises or falls in accordance with your Thoughts. Whatever Thought is cherished by you in the world will be ultimately realized. 

Whatever a pure Mind strongly believes something to be, that it soon becomes. Your Thoughts are powerful in proportion to your intensity, depth and warmth. They become so when they are being constantly cherished over and over again. Constant thinking, desiring or imagining of the same idea contributes much to the materialization of that idea.   

Develop a pure Mind and whatever objects and worlds you wish to get, you will gain those objects and worlds. 

It is true that every Thought you think has its corresponding effect on the whole or some part of human anatomy. The physical body is realized to be subtle by means of constant meditation on its being so. The mental or subtle body becomes physical when it is repeatedly imagined. The secret of success is constant and repeated effort. 

Develop strong determination. It is an important factor which will contribute to the realization of your Thoughts. There is nobody who will be able to withstand the power of your determined Mind. You can realize everything. 

Your Mind is your objectified Thought. When your Thoughts changed, the body will also change. The Mind creates the body from the material of your own Thoughts. Thought is a force that can change, transform, or at least modify, almost anything in the human system.

The disorder and disharmony of the physical body is called a physical disease and the conflict of the Mind is called a mental disease. Both of them have their ultimate root in ignorance and can be cured only by the knowledge of reality. When you worry about the experiences of the world, a depressing mental disturbance originates in your Mind. By the effect of mental disturbance, the smooth and regular flow of vital currents is disturbed. When the vital currents flow improperly, the Nadis become disorganized. Some of them get more vital energy and some get less. Thus, the whole system becomes out of order. In this way, mental disharmony is the cause of physical diseases, which can be cured only by removing the cause. 

Every depressing and disturbing Thought that enters your Brain, has a depressing effect on every cell of your body, and tends to produce disease. All negative Thoughts are forerunners of disease, and they are messengers of Death.   

If you want to live long and lead a sensible and healthy life cherish good Thoughts. Subtle and powerful are influences of the Thoughts in building and rebuilding of your body. Be vigilant. 

Practically all diseases with their sufferings have their origin in perverted mental and emotional states and conditions. Restoration of mental harmony is absolutely necessary for you. Purify your Thoughts by performing noble actions and by association with wise ones. When your Thoughts are purified the vital currents will begin to flow properly and will clean the whole system.  

Every good Thought stimulates the heart, improves the digestive system and promotes the normal action of every gland. 

Contentment is another name for the harmony of the Mind. When your Thoughts do not wander to this or that object and when you feel self-satisfied, you are in a state of joy which is unique. If you are happy within, everything appears good and pleasing to you.  

Thoughts are the main source of your cheerfulness. Purify your Thoughts; all troubles will be cured. 

If you are cherishing peaceful Thoughts the whole world will appear cold, but if negative Thoughts have spread their kingdom then the world will seem to be a hot furnace. No circumstance compels you to cherish evil Thoughts. Do not ruin yourself by your imagination of fate. It has no reality of its own.  

Thought is able to reveal reality. Propelled by right Thoughts the wise man is able to come out of most dangerous situations. The whole reality is present in its full potency everywhere, so whatever is intensely Thought of anywhere can be experienced there.  

The essential nature of all objects is Thoughts. Materiality is a wrong idea. 

As snow melts in water through heat, so Mind becomes subtle through the practice of right vision and positive Thoughts.   

The real action is Thought only. It is really mental and not physical. The physical action is only an external expression of the real action which is vibration in the Mind. Your physical activities are only the various sides of mental activities.  

As the beauty of a tree increases immensely in the spring season, so also your strength, your intellect and the lustre will increase in proportion to your positive Thoughts. Thoughts of the wise men are entirely different from the Thoughts of ordinary people. You are liberated in proportion to your Thoughts of indifference to the world. 

When Thoughts of purity emanate around you, Eternal Law begins to support you. You are aware of your Thoughts. You only know what has come to pass in your own experience. In everyone of you separately has arisen the world of the experience of the world. You have got a limited Mind which is subject to various types of modes and circumstances.  

Some Thought-Seeds 

True knowledge is Spiritual Consciousness. It is awareness of one's real nature. Knowledge means right discernment or correct evaluation, wisdom and a perfect understanding of oneself and of others. Right Thought results in right action and right life.  

Beauty is essentially Spiritual. Real beauty lies in one's heart. It is in one's character. Beauty dwells in purity. Beauty shines in virtues. Love is a refined, innate sense of oneness with the entire creation. Love is self-denial, selflessness. 

Love is sacredness of heart. Love is unrestrained goodwill, mercy, compassion and tolerance. Love is absence of sensuality.  

The body is not everything. There is something which is vitally important, which dwells in the body. It is the Spirit of man. Though identical with the Cosmic Spirit, it is individualized by the Karmas of the individual soul. The body passes away; the Spirit lives. The individuality of the Spirit is there as long as the body lasts; then it ought to return back to and dissolve itself in its original source, unless of course, it is drawn back by its associated Karmas into another embodiment in order to reap them.  

Everything passeth away. Nothing ever is to accompany man except his Karmas, when the body is cast off. Hence as long as man lives, he should live amicably, with love and goodwill towards all, hurting no one in any manner, coveting no worldly riches, with more of kindness and mental charity, forgiveness and tolerance, with detachment to mundane objects, and dissociation of the ego from one's actions, while taking care to acquire no new Karmas as one works out the already accomplished ones.  

With a little of contentment, discrimination, devotion to God and self-surrender to His will, with a little of detachment and non-expectation of anything from anyone, with an attitude of prayerfulness and abiding by the dictates of one's conscience with unshakable faith in one's Spiritual principles and code of conduct, and evaluation, life becomes easier, worthier and happier.  

If you have difficulties, you should look to the cause first. The real trouble lies in ignoring the cause. If the cause is remedied, difficulties becomes less, or rather accidental. The world is a great school where people are given ample opportunities to mend and mould themselves into better individuals. 

No one is born perfect. There are possibilities for everyone to improve oneself. Trials and difficulties ought to make one a better individual rather than create complexes and constrict the Mind and heart. Take shelter in great and noble Thoughts, and obtain perfection. 

Guru' grace is always with the disciple, unreserved and unconditioned. It depends, however, on the self-discipline, faith and purity of the disciple whether to make use of this grace or not. Guru resides in the hearts of his disciples. Some are aware of this and some are not. The living presence of the Guru within is the best asset of the disciple.  


Other Chapters Of THOUGHT-POWER By Sri Swami Sivananda:- 

Chapter 1: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-1-thought-power-its-physics-and.html

Chapter 2: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-2-thought-power-its-laws-and.html

Chapter 3: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-3-value-and-uses-of-thought.html

Chapter 4: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-4-functions-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 5: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-5-development-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 6: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-6-thought-their-varities-and.html

Chapter 7: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-7-positive-methods-for-thought.html

Chapter 8: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-8-patterns-of-thought-culture.html

Chapter 9: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-9-from-thoughts-to-thought.html

Chapter 11: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-11-thought-power-for-god.html

Chapter 12: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-12-thought-power-for-new.html  

CHAPTER 9 - From Thoughts To Thought-Transcendence

Thoughts And Life  

Man thinks of sensual objects and gets attached to them. He thinks that fruits are very good for the body. He exerts to possess them. Then he actually possesses and enjoys them. He now clings to the fruits. He develops a habit of taking fruits now and when he fails to obtain them any day, he gets pain.  

From thinking comes attachment; from attachment desire is born; from desires proceeds anger, anger arises when desire is frustrated by some cause or the other; from anger arises delusion; from delusion, failure of memory; from failure of memory, loss of intellect; from loss of intellect man is totally ruined. If you want to attain everlasting peace, do not think of objects, but think always of the immortal blissful Atman alone.  

Desires by themselves are harmless. They are galvanized by the Power of Thought. Then only they do much havoc. Man muses or thinks on the objects of the senses. He imagines that he will get a great deal of pleasure from them. This imagination excites the desires. This power of imagination co-operates with the desires. Then the desires are invigorated or vitalized. They attack the deluded Jiva vehemently.  

Thoughts And Character 

Man is not a creature of circumstances. His Thoughts are the architects of his circumstances. A man of character builds a life out of circumstances. He steadily perseveres and plods. He does not look back. He marches forward bravely.  

He is not afraid of obstacles. He never frets and fumes. He never gets discouraged and disappointed. He is full of vigour, energy, vim and vitality. He is ever zealous and enthusiastic.  

Thoughts are the bricks with which character is built. Character is not born. It is formed.

Determination to build definite character in life is needed. This must be followed up with persistent striving.  

Build your character, you can shape your life. Character is power, it is influence; it makes friends. It draws patronage and support. It creates friends and funds. It opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honour, success and happiness.   

Character is the determining factor in victory and defeat, success and failure, and in all the issues of life. A man of good character enjoys life herein and hereafter.  

Small kind acts, small courtesies, small consideration, small benevolence, habitually practiced in your social intercourse give a great charm to your character than great platform lectures, discourses, oration, exhibition of talents, etc.  

Strong character is formed by strong and noble thinking. A good character is the fruition of personal exertion. It is the result of one's own endeavours.  

It is not wealth or power nor is it mere intellect that governs the world. It is moral character associated with moral excellence that really rules the entire Universe.  

Nothing in this world - wealth, name, fame, victory - is worth a fig or a straw, without character. Character must stand behind and back up everything. And, character is built by your Thoughts. 

Thoughts And Words 

There is power in every word that is spoken. There are two kinds of Vrittis or Thoughts, viz., Sakti Vritti and Lakshana Vritti in words.  

In the Upanishads, the Lakshana Vritti is taken. "Vedasvarupoham" does not mean "Embodiment of Vedas". The Lakshana Vritti does denote "Brahman" who can be reached by the study of the Upanishads alone: by the Sabda-Pramana alone.  

Mark here the power in the words. If anyone calls another "Sala" or "Badmash" or "fool", he is thrown into a state of fury immediately. Fight ensues. If you address anyone as "Bhagavan" or "Prabhu" or "Maharaj", he is immensely pleased.  

Thoughts And Actions 

Thoughts are dormant seeds of action. The Mind's acts, and not the bodily acts, are alone true acts. It is the actions of the Mind that are truly termed Karmas.  

Thought and act are interdependent. There is no such thing as Mind apart from Thought. Thoughts constitute the Mind.  

Words are nothing but the outward expressions of Thoughts which are imperceptible. Actions are caused by feelings of desire and aversion (likes and dislikes). These feelings are caused by the fact that you attribute a pleasurable or painful nature to objects. Thought is finite. It is inadequate to express even temporal processes, not to speak of the absolute which is inexpressible. The body with its organs is no other than the Mind.  

Thoughts, Peace And Strength 

Fewer the desires, lesser the Thoughts. Become absolutely desireless. The wheel of Mind will stop entirely. If you reduce your wants, if you do not try to fulfill your desires, if you try to eradicate your desires one by one, your Thoughts will diminish in frequency and length. The number of Thoughts also per minute will diminish. 

Fewer the Thoughts, greater the peace. Remember this always. A wealthy man who is engaged in speculation in a big city and who has a large number of Thoughts has a restless Mind in spite of his comforts, whereas a Sadhu who lives in the cave of the Himalayas and who is practicing Thought-control is very happy in spite of his poverty.   

Fewer the Thoughts, greater the mental strength and concentration. Suppose that the average number of Thoughts that pass through your Brain within one hour is one hundred. If you succeed in reducing it, by constant practice of concentration and meditation, to ninety, you have gained then per cent of the power of concentration of Mind.  

Every Thought that is reduced adds strength and peace to the Mind. Reduction of even one Thought will give mental strength and peace of Mind. You may not be able to feel this in the beginning as you do not possess a subtle intellect, but there is a Spiritual thermometer inside to register the reduction of even a single Thought. If you reduce one Thought, the mental strength that you have gained by this reduction will help you to reduce the second Thought easily.   

Thought, Energy And Sacred Thoughts 

Thought is a finer manifestation of Being than ether or energy. You think, because you share the Universal Thought.  

Thought is both force and motion. Thought is dynamic. Thought moves. Thought decides the future. As you think, so you become. Thought makes a Saint or a sinner. Thought can shape a man. Think that you are Brahman and Brahman you become. 

Sacred Thoughts generate and sustain Divine Thoughts. Thoughts of hatred interfere with the inner harmony of the heart. Every useless Thought is wastage of energy. Useless Thought are obstacles to Spiritual growth. Every Thought must have a definite purpose. 

Negative evil Thoughts cannot overcome fear. Patience overcomes anger and irritability. Love overcomes hatred. Purity overcomes lust. Mind is not daily made; in every minute it changes its colour and shape.  

Thoughts That Bind 

Through its power of differentiation, Mind generates this Universe. The expansion of the Mind's Thoughts towards sensual objects is bondage.  

The abandoning of the Thoughts constitute liberation. The Mind creates, at the outset, an attachment for the body and sense-objects and binds the man through this attachment. The attachment is due to the force of Rajas.   

Sattva brings non-attachment and infuses in the Mind discrimination and renunciation.  

It is the Rajasic Mind that causes the ideas "I" and "Mine" and the difference of body, caste, creed, colour, order of life, etc. 

The poisonous tree of the Mayaic illusion grows more and more out of the seed of the Mind's modification or expanded Thoughts in the soil of the multifarious enjoyments of the world.  

From Pure Thoughts To Transcendental Experience 

Thoughts are of two kinds: pure Thoughts and impure Thoughts. Desire to do virtuous actions, Japa, meditation, study of religious books, etc., is pure Thought. A desire to go to cinema, to hurt others and to seek sex-relations is impure Thought.  

Impure Thoughts should be destroyed by the increase of pure Thoughts, and pure Thoughts also should be given up in the end.  

Thoughts gain strength by repetition of sensual enjoyments. Sensual enjoyments leave on the Mind, subtle impressions.  

The real Svarupa of Mind is Sattva only. Rajasa and Tamas join Sattva accidentally in the middle. They can be removed by Sadhana or purificatory practices such as Tapas, selfless service, Dama, Sama, Japa, worship, etc. If you develop the Daivi Sampat and Divine qualities, Rajas and Tamas will perish. Then the Mind will be pure, subtle, steady and one-pointed. Then it will melt in the subtle invisible homogeneous Brahman (Akhandaikarasa Brahman). It will mix with Brahman now, just as milk mixed with milk, water with water, oil with oil. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result.  

Raja Yogic Method For Thought-Transcendence 

Substitute pure Thoughts for impure Thoughts. This method of substitution will destroy all evil Thoughts. This is very easy. This is the method of Raja Yoga.  

The method of driving the Thoughts at once by will-force or by using the formula "get out, O evil Thoughts" is very taxing. It is not suitable for ordinary people. It demands tremendous will-power and Spiritual strength.  

You must rise above pure Thoughts and attain the Supreme state of Thoughtlessness. Only then can you rest in your own Svarupa. Only then will Brahman be revealed like Amalaka fruit in the palm of your hand.  

Vedantic Technique For Thought-Transcendence 

When all kinds of useless Thoughts and emotions trouble you much, be indifferent (Udasina). Say to yourself: "Who am I?" Feel: "I am not the Mind. I am the Atman, the all-pervading Spirit, Suddha Satchidananda. How can emotions affect me? I am Nirlipta, unattached; I am Sakshi, witness of these emotions. Nothing can disturb me". When you repeat these suggestions of Vichara or Vedantic reflection, the Thoughts and emotions will die by themselves.  

This is the Jnana-method of driving out Thoughts and emotions and the struggling with the Mind.  

When any Thought arises in the MInd, enquire: Why has this Vritti (modification) arisen? Whom it concerns? Who am I? All the Thoughts will die eventually. All mental activities will cease. The Mind will turn inward. It will rest in Atman. This is Vedantic Sadhana. You will have to persist constantly in the Sadhana.  

Whatever stray Thoughts arise, the one Thought "Who am I?" will destroy all other Thoughts of worldly nature. That Thought will die by itself. Ego will vanish. Balance left is Kevala Asti; Chinmatra; Kevala Suddha Chaitanya; Chidakasamatra which is Nama-rupa-rahita (free from all names and forms), Vyavahara-rahita, Malavasana-rahita, Nishkriya, Niravayava, which is Santa-Siva-Advaita of the Mandukya Upanishad. This is to be known. 


Other Chapters Of THOUGHT-POWER By Sri Swami Sivananda:- 

Chapter 1: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-1-thought-power-its-physics-and.html

Chapter 2: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-2-thought-power-its-laws-and.html

Chapter 3: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-3-value-and-uses-of-thought.html

Chapter 4: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-4-functions-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 5: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-5-development-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 6: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-6-thought-their-varities-and.html

Chapter 7: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-7-positive-methods-for-thought.html

Chapter 8: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-8-patterns-of-thought-culture.html

Chapter 10: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2013/12/chapter-10-metaphysics-of-thought-power.html

Chapter 11: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-11-thought-power-for-god.html

Chapter 12: http://mhafyz.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-12-thought-power-for-new.html