We Live in a Boundless World of Thoughts

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Thought alone is the whole world, the great pains, the old age, death and the

great sin, earth, water, fire, air, ether. Thought binds a man. He who has

controlled his thoughts, is a veritable God on this earth.

 

You live in a world of thoughts. First is thought. Then there is the expression

of that thought through the organ of speech. Thought and language are intimately

connected. Thoughts of anger, bitterness and malice injure others. If the mind

which is the cause of all thoughts vanishes, the external objects will

disappear.

 

Thoughts are things. Sound, touch, form, taste and odour, the five sheaths, the

waking, the dreaming and deep sleep states - all these are the products of mind.

Sankalpa, passion, anger, bondage, time—know them to be the result of mind. Mind

is the king of the Indriyas or senses. Thought is the root of all mental

process.

 

The thoughts that we perceive all round us are only the mind in form or

substance. Thought creates, thought destroys. Bitterness and sweetness do not

lie in the objects, but they are in the mind, in the subject, in thinking. They

are created by thought.

 

Through the play of the mind or thought upon objects, proximity appears to be a

great distance and vice versa. All objects in this world are unconnected; they

are connected and associated together only by thought, by the imagination of

your mind. It is the mind that gives colour, shape, qualities to the objects.

Mind assumes the shape of any object it intensely thinks upon.

 

Friend and enemy, virtue and vice are in the mind only. Every man creates a

world of good and evil, pleasure and pain, out of his own imagination only. Good

and evil, pleasure and pain do not proceed from objects. These belong to the

attitude of your mind. There is nothing good nor pleasant in this world. Your

imagination makes it so.