Influence of thought

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Posted by: " Ritu Arora " ritu.arora30 rt_arora30

Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:49 am (PST)

 

Influence of thought

 

Just as every action that emanates from us comes back to us as

reaction,even so our actions may act on other person and theirs on us.

Perhaps all of you have observed it as fact that when persons do evil

actions, they become more and more evil and when they begin to do

good, they become stronger and stronger and learn to do good at all

times. This intensification of the influence of action cannot be

explained on any other ground than that we can act and react upon each

other. To take an illustration from physical science, when I am doing

a certain action, my mind may be said to be in a certain state of

vibration; all minds which are in similar circumstances will have the

tendency to be affected by my mind. If there are different musical

instruments tuned alike in one room, all of you may have noticed that

when one is struck, the others have the tendency to vibrate so as to

give the same note. So all minds that have the same tension, so to

say, will be equally affected by same thought. Of course, this

influence of thought on mind will vary according to distance and other

causes, but the mind is always open is affection. Suppose I am doing

an evil act, my mind is in a certain state of vibration, and all minds

in universe, which are in similar state, have possibility of being

affected by vibration of mind. so, when I

am doing a good action, my mind is in another state of vibration; and

all minds similarly strung have the possibility of being affected by

my mind; and this power of mind upon mind is more or less according as

the force of tension is greater or less.

 

Following this simile further, it is quite possible that, just as

light waves may travel for million of years before they reach any

object, so thought waves may also travel hundreds of years before they

meet an object with which they vibrate in unison. It is quite

possible, therefore, that this atmosphere of ours is full of such

thought pulsations, both good and evil. Every thought projected from

every brain goes on pulsation, as it were until it meets a fit object

that will receive it. Any mind which is open to receive some of these

impulses will take them immediately. So, when a man is doing evil

actions, he has brought his mind to a certain state of tension and all

the waves which correspond to that state of tension, and which may

be said to be already in the atmosphere, will struggle to enter into

his mind. That is why an evil-doer generally goes on doing more and

more evil.

 

His actions become intensified. such also will be the case with doer

of good, he will open himself to all the good waves that are in the

atmosphere, and his good actions will also become intensified. We run,

therefore, a twofold danger in doing evil: first we open ourselves to

all evil influences surrounding us; secondly, we create evil which

affects others, may be hundreds of years hence. In doing evil we

injure ourselves and others also.

 

In doing good we do good to ourselves and to others as well and like

all other forces in man, these forces of good and evil also gather

strength from outside.

 

Fill yourself with the idea; whatever you do, think well on it. All

your actions will magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power

of thought.

 

If the matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought

to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your

almightiness, your majesty and your glory. Would to god no

superstitions had been put into your head! Would to god we had not

been surrounded from our birth by all these superstitions influences

and paralysing ideas of our weakness and vileness!

 

Would to god that mankind had had an easier path through which to

attain to the noblest and highest truths! But man had to pass through

all this; do not make the path more difficult for those who are coming

after you.