Power of Thought

The power of mind over matter is the creative power of thought.

Yad bhavam / Tad bhavathi - you become what you think. The world is a manifestation of our inner state. The situations we come across, the people we meet, the problems we confront, the life experiences we have, are all projections of what lie within. We create our reality. We are the architects of our destiny. Perceived reality eventually becomes manifested reality. So you become what you think; you find what you perceive.
Thought has immense power: It can create. Every time we perceive or harbour a thought containing a charge or emotion, the process of creation is set into motion; an arrow has been released into the ethereal planes, or the 'thoughtsphere'. Once released, similar thoughts or arrows bundle together and when the threshold is reached, the "law of reciprocal action" is set in motion.
The thought you released has now materialised into deed. If the arrow you released was judgment, you will come across judgmental people. If it was betrayal, you shall be betrayed; if it was hatred, you will be hated and so on. You have created your reality and no one is to be blamed for this. The world is reflecting your inner thoughts and feelings. You cannot be one thing inside and experience another reality outside. The two have to exist in synchronicity.
When we ask, "Why did this happen to me?" we do not perceive the relationship between thought and deed. Perhaps it is difficult because of the time lapse between the two. From thought to deed, it may take a week, a month, a year, a decade or more. Constant review of our lives will help us see the connection. The speed of reciprocation depends upon the evolution of the individual. Sometimes reaching the threshold point could take a lifetime or more. If we do not find answers even after examining our lives in the light of these cosmic principles, only the theory of reincarnation can explain the rest.
The whole process of thought materialising into deed is a karmic cycle. So our life is a series of karmic cycles. An awareness of these eternal laws gives us the power to alter the course of karma but not while in the midst of a karmic cycle. We have the power of wisdom and choice of free will to review and make changes to our life but not before the cycle comes to an end. A frog in mid-air cannot alter the course of its flight. However, on landing, it can choose the direction of its next leap. For true transformation we have to discover love, for which we need divine assistance.
Karma can be classified as that pertaining to the individual, family, nation and all of humanity. When we ask: "Why is the world so bad?" the world we see is a manifestation of our negative thoughts and emotions.
Our negative charges not only manifest as a painful situation in our life but create a negative occurrence elsewhere in the world. Every time we see, hear or read violence, we create violence somewhere. Every individual, irrespective of his nationality, is responsible for the kind of world we live in. The violent world we see is an example of the collective karma of mankind. So individual transformation can mean global transformation.
Karma is a cosmic principle and God is cosmic intelligence. Karma is independent of God. If God were to judge man's thought and action, then we are talking of reward and punishment.

Guruji's Insightful answers.....

Radhe Krishna To All,

Our Swamiji is been receiving several questions from devotees on life, science & spirituality and have chosen five important questions to explain elaborately which commonly arise in many a human minds.Please read patiently

1. “Many opine that if one worships God he is relieved of sorrows in life, is cured of diseases and his financial status improves. But even those who do not worship God lead a prosperous life. Not only this but also those who are devoted to God face sorrows in life, suffer from diseases and face financial difficulties. While it is so [where and] what is the need to worship God?
There is a general belief that if we worship God many good things will happen to us in life. We think that visiting temples will secure good employment, will cure us of diseases, will help get a good spouse, will help score good marks in our examination, will bring success in our examination, etc.
Is it not with such thought that we love God? Do puja to God? When it is so, those who do not accept God, those who do not believe in God are doing very well in life. Not only this but also those who worship God undergo lots of sufferings. It is all right even if one does not enjoy happiness but we find them suffering sorrows. What is the reason for this?

Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji:

First of all, we should see why a person worships God. Life is categorized into two kinds - worldly and spiritual. One who lives in this world enticed by the desire for wealth, woman, and fame found in this world is said to be worldly. These enticements are called ‘kama’(lust), ‘kanchana’(wealth), ‘keerti’(fame). One who gives up all these and lives with the desire to attain God is called ‘ascetic’ (‘thuravi’ -one who has given up the world for the sake of God). We use these terms colloquially to denote such people. But, when we go deep into this it can be said that there are no two persons as one who seeks worldly desires and one who seeks God. Everyone in the world is seeking only God!Even those who seek worldly comforts are seeking only God, are searching only for God and a one who has given up the world for the sake of God(‘ascetic’) is also searching only for God. How? Can the one who desires woman, wealth and fame and a ‘‘ascetic’ be placed in the same category in the world? A question might arise in you, ‘how can you say that these two are the same? How can one who pursues worldly desires and the one who is searching for God be the same?’ Let us see how this is right. All creatures of the world are ceaselessly active. A butterfly is always flying. An ant is always moving about. Beginning from a tiny creature to Man everyone is carrying on some work ceaselessly . What is the reason? Man and all creature are seeking happiness/joy. Man desires to accumulate wealth. Why? Because he thinks, ‘if I have lots of money I can live comfortably.’ He desires high offices. Why? Because he thinks that he will earn happiness. He desires fame because he thinks that there is happiness in it. When he eats something he feels some happiness in it. When sitting in an air-conditioned room he feels happy. Does not every one of us moving about in this world seek happiness? But, if we appraise to see if we have really earned happiness the answer is a simple ‘No!’ We have only to say that we have not acquired happiness. We search for happiness. We deem something to be happiness. But, on evaluation we find that it is not happiness. There is only a illusion, a Maya (illusion) as if there is happiness. The reason for this is that even today in the world many who are wealthy are not happy. Even after seeing that those who are wealthy are not enjoying happiness we nurture the desire to earn wealth. Many who hold high offices are not happy.
Yet, the desire to attain high offices is not given up. Those who enjoy fame are not enjoying happiness. Still the desire to attain fame does not leave us. All these people do suffer in life. Money, post or fame is not the means for attaining permanent happiness. Even they suffer sorrows in life. They also suffer. Even they meet with death some day. Even after seeing these - the ‘moha’(delusion) for wealth, the ‘moha’for fame does not leave us. We possess such insatiable ‘moha’ for worldly things. The nature of the mind is the reason for this. Mind is one that goes towards the world. What do we understand from this? Man desires to be in happiness always. Even while desiring happiness he wishes it to be permanent. He desires to get married. Even after observing that many a married person is not happy.
What is the reason? ‘Moha’ (delusion)! Such a [great] Maya is covering [blinding] him. It is because of Maya he desires all these. Even while he desires such worldly things he knows that those who have sought these happiness are not happy today. Yet, he moves towards achieving these. Everyone desires happiness. It is only to be happy he gets married, begets children, studies, takes up employment, earns money and goes abroad. ‘I must be happy in some way. If I get all that I desire I will be happy,’ so he thinks. But once his desire gets fulfilled another desire takes hold of him. When this is fulfilled another desire arises. So it goes on. He goes on searching in this manner. He is only searching for happiness in the world.
Well! What does the ‘ascetic’ search? The ‘ascetic’ is also searching only for happiness. Why is he doing bhakti (devotion)to God? performs dhyana of God? If you put this question to him, he says, “I am doing dhyana only to be happy.” ‘ascetic’ is also searching for happiness. Here, let us take happiness to be ‘ananda’ (Bliss). A ‘ascetic’ is searching for ‘ananda’ and so does a man involved in worldly life. Where is ‘ananda’? Only God is verily the form of ‘ananda’ / Love.
Only when we attain God we will get ‘ananda’ or happiness and thus we, who are searching for ‘ananda’, we who are seeking happiness are searching only for God. The difference in a ‘ascetic’ man and a worldly man searching for happiness is, A ‘ascetic’’ knows the right place where happiness can be attained and the way to attain it. Whereas those involved in worldly life do not know where real happiness can be got and the right way to get it is the only difference between the two! You should not feel sorry for the one who has taken to ochre robe and embraced asceticism. There is no need for you to pity him, ‘Oh! It is a pity that in this young age he has given up worldly pleasures/comforts and is seeking God.’ You need not feel sorry for him in this manner. If a ascetic acknowledges your sympathy then he is not a proper ascetic. This is because it is only the ascetic who has to feel sorry for you! It is only the ascetic who has to pity you.
The reason for this is that has not the ‘ascetic’ given up trifling happiness and has undertaken the search for the highest joy? Has he not given up ordinary happiness and is seeking permanent Bliss (‘niranthara sukha’)? Then he is (certainly) more intelligent than we are. He is smarter than we are. So, there is no need for us to feel sorry for him; sympathize with him; pity him. Truly, it is only he who has to feel sorry for us looking at our condition!
This is because he is doingwhat has to be done. Worshipping God is (only) for permanent, eternal Bliss. That ‘ananda’ can be got only in God. It cannot be got in worldly comforts. The first and foremost idea behind bhakti is this only. Even if due to ignorance we do bhakti to God with the idea of securing money, good job, etc. gradually it will lead us to real bhakti; to seek real ananda; to know the ‘Atma swaroopa’; to know our real Self. Doing Bhakti for money, fame or for any otherworldly ends is very low.
If you ask, ‘Won’t God give all these?’ [The answer is] ‘Certainly He will.’ Now, when you raise the doubt, ‘even those who do not do bhakti are leading happy life,’ it is because enjoyment of ‘sukha’ (happiness) or suffering of ‘dukkha’ (sorrow) is only because of the ‘papa’ (sins) and ‘punya’ (good merits) done by him in his earlier births. If a man had done lots of good deeds in his earlier births but is an atheist in this birth God will not say, ‘I will not give you the ‘phala’ (fruit) for your good deeds.’ The results of ‘punyas’ done in earlier births have to reach him. He may be an atheist in this birth. He may or may not accept God.
This is not the subject matter here. In many of his earlier births he has done lots of good deeds and he is enjoying their fruits now. Those who are doing bhakti [to God] now might have done lots of ‘papa’ in their earlier births and hence are suffering their ‘phala’(result) now. If we are deeply devoted to God and if our hearts melt with love for God our sins will be erased and good things will happen to us. Deep devotion is required in bhakti to God. It should be true bhakti, right bhakti. It (bhakti) should be one done in the right way.
We should do bhakti with one-pointed mind. It is indeed true that through one-pointed devotion sufferings in our lives can be wiped out. Such things have happened. We have, while speaking on God/Mahans, spoken how many Mahans have performed innumerable wonders. It is not impossible. But, [you should realize] that it is not as you think - that if you go to temple just once such things will happen. Such things can be experienced if you have one-pointed, true, sincere bhakti. There is absolutely no doubt about this. So, [it is only] due to ‘papa’ (sins) and ‘punya’ (good merit) a man attains ‘sukha’ (happiness) or ‘dukkha’ (sorrow) in this birth. Whether he is a bhakta of God inthis janma (birth) or not is not the question. However, worship of God is only for the sake of God. Worship of God is only for attaining eternal Bliss (‘ananda’).
The true ascetic knows where real ananda is while the man of the world does not know. Since both are only searching for ‘ananda’ both are searching only for God. There is no doubt about this at all. So worshipping God is only to take us to a high state. Though we may be in possession of many things, though we may increase our comforts through various ways we cannot attain real ‘sukha’.!!!

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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

To Rest-An real incident from Alexander's Life

The country of Greece had many Jnanis (saints), as the people there had such spiritual inclination.

Alexander desired to meet such a great Jnani in India. His minister searched and found one such Jnani in a forest.

The Jnani was lying idle!The minister said to him, “Alexander, the great Emperor, is coming to meet you.”

The Jnani remained silent. Alexander arrived after a time and was shocked to find no response from this Jnani.

He felt insulted and roared in anger,

“You have no respect for a great Emperor that I am. You did not even get up. What are you doing?”

The Jnani, “I am just lying idle. I do not do any work!”

Alexander, “How can you be idling?”

The Jnani asked Alexander, “What do you do?”

Alexander said proudly, “I am going about conquering other countries.”

The Jnani questioned, “What would you do after that?”

Alexander, “I will conquer all the countries in the world.”

The Jnani, “What would you do after conquering the whole world?”

Alexander, “I will rest!”

The Jnani, “This is what I am doing now!”(I am doing that which you would after so much work!)

Path to self-awareness

Knowing what is right and what is wrong in your own inner consciousness is insufficient. It is not the knowing of truth that transforms a person; it is the doing of truth that has an impact on you and on the other people that you interact with. You may know that it is inappropriate to think selfishly and look out for your own best interests first, but your inner emotions may drive you to be blinded to the needs of others.
You may know that it is against your basic truth to judge another individual, but your inner emotions may cause you to look at that person and make a judgment because of the effect you are allowing them to have on your life.You may understand that all of God's creatures were created equal, but that doesn't stop you, on an emotional level, from feeling that the human race is the most important life form on the planet.
The discrepancy lies not in a lack of information, for the information is available on a world-wide basis for those who would seek it, evaluate it, and accept it as their own; the discrepancy lies in the ability to integrate Universal Law into your lifestyle. Awareness of the self does not just focus into the positive aspects of a personality, or the positive aspects of skills and talents that you brought with you into this lifetime, but into the negative as well; it is only when the positive is weighed against the negative, and the balanced perspective is used as a guidepost in integrating higher consciousness into the self that the influence becomes apparent in your relationships and in your lifestyle.
Self-actualisation can be translated to mean, making the self actual. It means there is no difference between what you think and what you do. There is no contradiction between what you tell others and how you respond yourself. It is manifesting who you are and what you believe in on a dayto-day, consistent basis. The path is a long and solitary one, and many individuals give up. It is difficult to accept what our conscious choices in the course of a specific existence have driven us to do to other people. It is hard for us to accept that we have been selfish, or resentful, or spiteful. It is hard for us to see where we have deliberately manipulated our lives so that we have control over the people and the situations and the events within it.
It is not easy to admit that we are not the positive, smiling, loving person that we prefer to see ourselves as; when, in the course of personal growth, it becomes necessary for an individual to truly, honestly evaluate how they have interacted with their fellow human beings, the drop-out rate skyrockets.
This is unfortunate, because personal growth cannot proceed — self-awareness and self-actualisation cannot be accomplished — without a true and open acknowledgement of who we used to be and how we used to live our lives, no matter how unpleasant that panorama may be. This does not mean that we need to spend years of our lives suffering regret and remorse for the wrong we have done in their lives to other people. It does mean that we need to take a reasonable amount of time to look back and to evaluate honestly what was really at play in any particular situation, where the two parties were really coming from, and where each conducted themselves with less than universal love.
We cannot change the past; we cannot undo the influence that we have upon other people by our thoughts and our feelings and our reactions, but we can learn from that experience and make a personal commitment never to treat anyone with that lack of respect again. If that person is still in our life, we can have the grace to apologise, and share our learning experience, and say, "I'm sorry that i used to be like that. I want to be like this, now, and i hope that you will help."
It is only by acknowledging our past weaknesses, and sharing our future aspirations, that we can experience the support and encouragement of others on our journey to self-actualisation. If we are not willing to admit that we have ever made a mistake, ever reacted inappropriately, ever deliberately hurt someone, then we cannot admit that we need to change, or that we need other people's help in doing so. It is, from a soul evolution perspective, self-defeating behaviour to remain in situations made from the lower consciousness that create less than fulfiling situations and relationships in our lives.