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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 experiences 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.