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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 Isvara 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.
Every one 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 energising 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 recreated 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 Mira. 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 the 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.