There is a nothing good or evil. Thinking makes it so. – Swami Sivananda
Every thought has an image, form, dimension, weight, shape, colour, etc. Thought is as much matter as a piece of stone. A table is a mental image plus some external something. Whatever you see outside has a counterpart in the mind. The pupil is a small round thing in the eye and the retina is another small structure in the eye. How is it that the image of a big mountain, seen through that small aperture, is cast onto the mind? How does the big form of the mountain enter a tiny hole in the eye? This is a marvel of marvels. The image of the mountain already exists in the mind. The mind is like a big, vast sheet of canvas cloth that contains all the pictures of the objects seen outside.
Thought moves and passes from one person to another. Thought readily influences people. A person with strong thoughts can readily influence people with weak thought.
Telepathy is a branch of occult science wherein the yogi can transmit messages to any person in any part of the world.
A thought of anger or hatred sends arrows from the mental factory towards the person aimed at. It harms the individual, sets up discord and disharmony in the thought world and comes back again to the sender and harms them also. If one can understand the effect and power of thought, they will be more careful in the manufacture of their thoughts in their mental laboratory.
AS YOU THINK, SO YOU BECOME
“As a person thinks, so they become” is one of the greatest laws of Nature.
Think you are pure, pure you will become. Think that you are brave, brave you will become. Think you are Brahman, Brahman you will become. Become an embodiment of good nature.
Always do good actions. Serve. Love. Give. Observe Brahmacharya and Mouna. Control anger. Make others happy. Live to serve others. Then only will you enjoy happiness.
Develop the faculty of producing only Sattvic (pure) thoughts by protracted mental discipline, dietetic adjustments, repetition of good hymns with meaning, good company, the study of Divine books, Japa (repetition of God’s name), Meditation, Pranayama (yogic breathing), prayer. A good person can help their friend, even though they live a long way away, by good thoughts alone. Do not allow evil thoughts to enter your mental factory. Always watch your thoughts. Avoid useless thinking. Conserve your mental energy.
To cultivate sublime thoughts always keep yourself occupied in doing virtuous deeds and in the study of religious books. Destroy random thinking. Think of only one subject and its different aspects. When you do this, never allow any other thought to enter the conscious mind. Again and again withdraw the mind to the subject on hand. Then take up another thought when you have exhausted the previous one.
By this practice you will develop organized thinking. The mental images will gain intense strength and force. They will become clear cut and well defined. In most people the mental images are scattered and undefined.