The Voice of Babaji: A Trilogy On Kriya Yoga
Babaji’s Masterkey to All Ills,
CHAPTER IX
Mind is commonly used in the form of thought. Thoughts are live vibrations. Each thought is a magnet and pulls in its like. Great is the force and power of thought. The quality of thought matter much indeed. Thoughts are life’s pendulum. They make gloom or cheer, make or mar life. Watch carefully the type of thought you express. Mind is full of energy. Learn in the school of life the mighty potency of mental power. Shake off and unload the useless baggage of cumbersome thoughts. Censor every thought of a faulty nature and avoid its reactions. Develop mind through the thought without stagnation. Give no room for worn out musty ossified thoughts. Constantly practice right thinking and prove to be a mirror reflecting the illumination of soul sunshine. The physical outside world is but the objectification of the inner world created by your daily thoughts. Words are the manifestation of thought in action. Make your words winning, giving them power and grace.
Don’t corrupt the mind with soothing illusions. Meditation does not mean holding the mind in a negative dreamy state, nor does it mean holding it on a vague abstraction. It is the continuous flow of the thought towards the goal, the Self without any break. This has to be done with harmony between reason and emotion, which acting singly, will degenerate into dry intellectualism and wet sentimentalism respectively. Glory is not reflected in your life in a mirage paradise of earthliness. Do not remain enclosed in the cocoon of your own delusion.
Do not paralyze your nerves by the dread of wrong imaginations. Abhor nightmares of ignorant acts, since ignorance is the sin of all sins. Mind is a thoroughfare along which thoughts race or crawl or fly. If not controlled they prove a tumult of undirected and dangerous traffic. So, live in the here and now. Stand amidst your thoughts and control and direct them to good ends with order and peace. Let there be a stream of joyous thoughts flowing towards the goal of life and you will have sweet and smooth sailing. Awaken behind the world’s painted screen of delusion and behold yourself as the only Reality. It is there that dualities of human experience disappear. The objective universe and subjective universe meet and merge in the foundational and fundamental Self.
Man thinks in words and clothes his thoughts in them. A word is a vehicle for the thought to express itself. In other words, thought is a bird that flies on the wings of words. They are interrelated. They are interrelated. The proper choice of words gives perceptible results. Discrimination is to be well exercised in the selection of words. Choose and study words to use them significantly, effectively and worthily. Words are power. They proclaim the man to the world as well or ill, disclosing his taste, temperament, education, breeding, aims and aspirations and the degree of culture. Not a degree, but a pedigree. Study of words is a great delight and the price of great achievement. But one should not be vain and verbose, in which case it is better to have the lips sealed. Cheerfulness dispels friction, anxieties and bitter experiences. It keeps entire life machinery in harmony. Learn to laugh in the face of adversity. It is bravery.
“You can with my grace and love (prem) easily brave the cannon’s mouth or risk life and limb in horror and pain. Realize, my child, dearer than my own self, that it takes more courage to smile and win the life’s great victories.”
Aum Hari Hum. Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti.
/The Voice of Babaji/
