Master Worldly Thoughts

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Worldly thoughts will trouble you a lot in the beginning of your new life of

thought-culture. They trouble you, also when you take to the practice of

meditation and spiritual life. But, if you are regular in your cultivation of

spiritual thoughts and in your meditation, these worldly thoughts will gradually

die by themselves.

 

Meditation is a fire to burn these thoughts. Do not try to drive all worldly

thoughts. Entertain positive thoughts concerning the object of your meditation.

Positively think of the lofty things.

 

Watch your mind always very carefully. Be vigilant. Be on the alert. Do not

allow waves of irritability, jealousy, anger, hatred, lust, to rise from the

mind. These dark waves and worldly thoughts are enemies of meditation, peace and

wisdom.

 

Conquer them immediately by entertaining sublime divine thoughts. Worldly

thoughts that have arisen may be destroyed by originating good thoughts and

maintaining them by repeating any Mantra or the Name of the Lord, by thinking on

any form of the Lord, by practice of Pranayama, by singing the Name of the Lord,

by doing good actions, by thinking on the misery that arises from the worldly

thoughts.

 

When you attain a state of purity, no worldly thoughts will take their rise in

your mind. Just as it is easy to check the intruder or enemy at the gate, so

also it is easy to overcome a worldly thought as soon as it rises. Nip it in the

bud. Do not allow it to strike a deep root.