Take charge of your thoughts

N— Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj ji

ot many of us know that everything that is visible through our physical eyes, every particle of matter that we can touch and feel, first had its blueprint in the human mind. In other words, everything outside is a physical manifestation of what is inside. Therefore, everything in the universe was first born as a thought or a tiny sentient point or dot. A dot has no length, breadth or width, but it has immense power and contains a lot.

When a thought expands, depending upon its nature and quality, it can soothe one with peace and prosperity or disturb the self and others. Each thought brings along a chain of other similar thoughts, and put together they can gain momentum to create desirable or undesirable results. Slow, light and positive thoughts can create a peaceful and prosperous world and chaotic, fast and negative thoughts can be destructive like a hurricane to blow away everything that had been nurtured for years.

Today we are experiencing how the present era dominated by vices and wickedness is promoting devilish tendencies. The speed and intensity of negative thoughts is much greater than positive ones. The major part of these positive thoughts fritters away before implementation due to a greater momentum of internal weak thoughts and force of external environment that is currently conducive for unrighteousness. Under such circumstances, practice of meditation lends power to our thoughts. It helps us to realise our positive and pure intentions. It brings forth our original, eternal, spiritual qualities of knowledge, peace, power, love and purity. It helps us to create an internal positive environment which is independent of the external vicious world. In its most powerful stage our mind can even transform outside negative vibrations and situations into positive ones. So take a pause to check what kind of thoughts are being created in your mind, for these will decide the degree of your happiness and satisfaction. And these will shape the kind of world you create for yourself. Monitor your thoughts to see what you are creating and what is being destroyed; what tendencies are being watered and which are being allowed to droop. Take charge to create what you will receive a few steps away from now.

GUIDING LIGHT

The writer is a spiritual educator and popular columnist for publications across India, Nepal and the UK. He can be contacted at nikunjji@gmail.com / www.brahmakumaris.com