On Thought Power

On Thought Powertc "On Thought Power"

While light travels at the rate of 1,86,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually travel in no time.

Thought is finer than ether, the medium of electricity. In broadcasting, a singer sings beautiful songs at Calcutta. You can hear them nicely through the radio set in your own house at Delhi. All messages are received through the wireless.

Even so your mind is like a wireless machine.  A saint with peace, poise, harmony and spiritual waves sends out into the world thoughts of harmony and peace.  They travel with lightning speed in all directions and enter the minds of persons and produce in them also similar thoughts of harmony and peace.  Whereas a worldly man whose mind is full of jealousy, revenge and hatred sends out discordant thoughts which enter the minds of thousands and stir in them similar thoughts of hatred and discord.

If we throw a piece of stone in a tank or a pool of water, it will produce succession of concentric waves travelling all around from the affected place.

The light of candle will similarly give rise to waves of ethereal vibrations travelling in all directions from the candle.

In the same manner, when a thought, whether good or evil, crosses the mind of a person, it gives rise to vibrations in the Manas or mental atmosphere, which travel far and wide in all directions.

What is the possible medium through which thoughts can travel from one mind to another?  The best possible explanation is that Manas or mind-substance fills all space like ether and it serves as the vehicle for thoughts, as Prana is the vehicle for feeling, as ether is the vehicle for heat, light and electricity, and as air is the vehicle for sound.

You can move the world through thought-force. Thought has great power. It can be transmitted from one man to another man.  The powerful thoughts of great sages and Rishis of yore are still recorded in the Akasa (Akasic records).

Yogins who have clairvoyant vision can perceive those thought-images.  They can read them.

You are surrounded by an ocean of thought. You are floating in the ocean of thought. You are absorbing certain thoughts and repelling some in the thought-world. 

Every one has his own thought-world.

A thought is a living thing.  A thought is as much solid as a piece of stone.  We may cease to be, but our thoughts can never die.

Every change in thought is accompanied by vibration of its matter (mental).  Thought as force needs a special kind of subtle matter in its working.

The stronger the thoughts, the earlier the fructification. Thought is focussed and given a particular direction and, in the degree that thought is thus focussed and given direction, it is effective in the work it is sent out to accomplish.

Thought is a finer force. This is supplied to us by food. If you read Chhandogya Upanishad – the dialogue between Uddalaka and Svetaketu – you will understand this point well.

If the food is pure, thought also becomes pure.  He who has pure thoughts speaks very powerfully and produces deep impression on the minds of the hearers by his speech. He influences thousands of persons through his pure thoughts.

A pure thought is sharper than the edge of a razor. Entertain always pure, sublime thoughts.  Thought-culture is an exact science.

What is this world, after all?  It is nothing but the materialization of the thought-forms of Hiranyagarbha or God.

You have got waves of heat and light and electricity in science.  There are also thought-waves in Yoga.  Thought has tremendous power. Everybody is experiencing the power of thought unconsciously to a greater or lesser degree.

Great Yogins like Jnanadev, Bhartrihari and Patanjali used to send and receive messages to and from distant persons through mind-telepathy (mental radio) and thought-transference. Telepathy was the first wireless telegraph and telephone service ever known to the world.

Just as you take physical exercises, play games such as tennis and cricket in order to maintain physical health, you will have to maintain mental health by radiating the right thought-waves, by taking Sattvic food, mental recreation of an innocent and harmless nature, change of mood, relaxation of mind by entertaining good, ennobling and sublime thoughts and by cultivating the habit of cheerfulness.

Every thought that you send out is a vibration which never perishes. It goes on vibrating every particle of the universe and if your thoughts are noble, holy and forcible, they set in vibration every sympathetic mind.

Unconsciously all people who are like you take the thought you have projected and in accordance with the capacity that they have, they send out similar thoughts.  The result is that, without your knowledge of the consequences of your own work, you will be setting in motion great forces which will work together and put down the lowly and mean thoughts generated by the selfish and the wicked. 

Thought is the greatest force on earth. Thought is the most powerful weapon in the armour of a Yogi. Constructive thought transforms, renews and builds.

The far-reaching possibilities of this force were most accurately developed to perfection by the ancients and put to the highest possible use.

For, thought is the primal force at the origin and of all creation; the genesis of the entire phenomenal creation is given as a single thought that arose in the Cosmic Mind.

The world is the Primal Idea made manifest.

Courtesy: Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Dec., 2003