The Power of Thought

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Comment by Kimberly Benton on November 8, 2009 at 11:14pm

That was brilliant. Much enjoyed


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Comment by Tayira on October 26, 2009 at 6:03am

How To Achieve Peace, Happiness and Freedom
The nature of every man is to achieve peace, happiness and freedom because it is the true nature of self/soul. However, worldly man seldom finds it within society. The concept of happiness varies from childhood to old age in a man and it also varies from man to man. Let us see how peace and happiness varies within a man and whether a man finally arrives at a peaceful and blissful state.
1.Happiness of childhood. A child finds pleasure in food, parents' affection and varieties of toys. Inside the home and before parents, he plays with different types of toys. As he grows up, he realizes the falsity of toys. He moves outside and mingles with his peer group. He plays different games and gets great pleasure.
2.Happiness of youth. As a child enters into the youthful stage, he learns more about society. He sees that two things can give pleasure - one is a life partner and the other is wealth. In order to maintain an intimate and lasting relationship, one has to marry, and in order to maintain a wife, one needs wealth. For this, he starts concentrating on a career, keeping aside friends and games. By pursuing a good career, he earns a lot, marries a beautiful girl and hopes to live merrily. However, his merrymaking is short-lived. He finds that the need of money is endless. Besides spending on food and clothing, he needs money for a house, for a car, for higher education of his children, for paying bills, for paying taxes, for purchasing medicines, for spending on social and religious occasions. He works hard to meet all of these expenses. In the process, he becomes diseased. Neither is he able to satisfy all nor is he able to maintain health, peace and happiness. He grows old and looks all around for succor.
3.Happiness of old age. As a man grows old, he gets fed up with his family and relatives, his professional life, parties and functions, and thinks that there must be something higher that can give happiness. Something higher may mitigate his woes. He wants drastic change that may give peace, happiness and freedom. For this, he looks towards politics and religion.
4.Assurance of politics. In modern days, political leaders and parties rule a state. They have different ideologies and assure people of bright days ahead, where all shall be equal and shall enjoy freedom. There shall be no financial hardship. However, the reality is that from the earliest civilization to the present, society has remained stratified or fragmented. Political leaders raise separatism, communal and religious issues and divide people in order to win votes. Common men are slaughtered, become homeless and are displaced. Governments collect revenue, but spend hugely on procurement or production of weapons of mass destruction or wars. At present, there are many terrorists' organizations that are active across the world. They fight for the cause of few by terrorizing the majority. So politics has fragmented and terrorized society, and one is fortunate enough if one is alive. Equality and freedom are only hollow words.
5.Assurance of religion. At last, man looks towards religion for solace. Religious people assure people of peace, bliss and liberation but these are achievable only after death. After death, a devotee shall enter into a heaven created by God, where there is peace, bliss and freedom. There is no hunger, pain, disease or death. A fragile and sick man who can't enjoy worldly objects or a man for whom the world has become a hell, believes in these imaginary things about God and heaven. He obeys all religious instructions, reads scriptures, and prays to God, but achieves nothing. Lastly, he is confined in a room by his family, where he observes his physical and mental disintegration.
So a man who wants peace, bliss and freedom during his lifetime should try to realize his self/soul. Self-realization is God realization. The Upanishads, the fountainhead of Indian spiritualism, describes that self and not the world has eternal existence. Self (atman) is described as Brahman, the ultimate reality. When self is realized, everything is realized. So one shouldn't slip away from one's self. It is the source of life energy, bliss and the home of a being. The path to realize self is yoga.
Premansu Chand

Comment by Tayira on October 24, 2009 at 9:08pm

How Do You Redeem Your Soul?

Finding the life answer to how you redeem your soul is a challenge. A redeemed soul sees itself as new and unblemished. To reach this state of innocence would be impossible according to the law of karma, for the cycle of sowing and reaping never ends. (Unlike sin, karma grips us even in the case of accidents and inadvertent mistakes – regardless of circumstances, an action is an action and has consequences.)
The problem is further complicated by the fact that each person performs millions of actions in a lifetime, and these overlap on all levels. Emotions and intentions are both tied in. The parsing of good from bad becomes extremely complicated, and the doctrine of karma makes the calculation harder rather than easier, because the mind can always find some tiny detail that was overlooked previously.
A redemptive God is the only being in the cosmos exempt from karma (or sin). Or to be more accurate, God transcends karma because he alone isn’t in the cosmos.
Clearly no one can repeal the law of cause and effect. In the East, using the terminology of karma, they say that evil acts pursue a soul across time and space until the debt is paid. Even death cannot abolish a karmic debt; this only happens by becoming a victim of the same evil you committed or by working off bad imprints through good ones.
At the level of second attention, however, this cycle is irrelevant. One doesn’t need to repeal the law of karma at all. Despite all the activity on the surface of life, a speck of awareness inside is not touched.. The instant they wake up in the morning, a saint and a sinner are in the same place. They both feel themselves to be alive and aware.
This place stands outside reward and punishment. It knows no duality. When you have accomplished the task of finding this place, holding on to it, and living there, duality is gone. You are free from all bondage of good or bad actions.
From How To Know God, by Deepak Chopra

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Comment by Adolphus Francis Quintus Andradi on October 21, 2009 at 3:41pm

Yes Michael, I do believe in the power of thoughts, very much, so much so, the on coming destruction and re-creation of the golden age is brought about by the power of our thoughts.

Comment by Tayira on October 21, 2009 at 4:56am

Always Look to the Light



by Paramhansa Yogananda
Excerpted from The Essence of Self-Realization, recorded and compiled by Swami Kriyananda
A room may be in darkness for thousands of years, but if a light is brought into it, in that very instant the darkness vanishes. So is it with sin. You cannot drive sin out of the mind any more than you can beat darkness out of a room with a stick. By concentration on delusion, indeed, you may only increase its hold on your mind. Bring in the light of God, however, through deep meditation and devotion, and the darkness will vanish as though it had never been.
If one thinks of sin as breaking God's commandments, the thought then arises of God's anger and stern judgment. But the Lord is our very own! We are His children. Why should He judge us? It is we, rather, who judge ourselves when we imagine that anything we do is beyond forgiveness. But if we understand sin as error, we realize that our errors can be rectified.
Never be afraid of God. Tell Him the things you've done wrong. Remind Him that you are His child. That is much better than whining, 'Lord, I am a sinner! I am a sinner!' You are made in His image. Pray, then, 'Well, Lord, I have made mistakes, but once I know You, there can be no more temptation for me.'
Give to God not only the good that you do, but also the bad. I do not mean that you should deliberately do things that are wrong. But when you cannot help yourself, because of habits that are too strong, tell your mind that God is performing those actions through you.
It is He, after all, who has dreamed your existence. You have merely hypnotized yourself with the thought of your weaknesses. If you make the Lord responsible for them, it will help you to break the false hold they have on your imagination. You'll find it easier, then, to recognize in yourself the perfect image of God.
Love and light dear friend!!!! Many thanks for the invite!!!!!

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