Positive Thinking 04 – Thoughts lead to things – and are things

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Welcome back to our discussion on positive thinking thoughts have subtle powers sometimes we think about destiny, who will I become, will I achieve, fulfill my dreams, will I become something worthwhile, someone glorious in my life, destiny seems to be a very big thing but that very big thing of destiny is shaped largely by the seemingly small thing of our thoughts our thoughts shape our words watch your thoughts, they become words watch your words they will become actions watch your actions, they will become habits, watch your habits, they will become character watch your character it will become your destiny this is a sequence from thoughts, to words, to actions to habits, to character, to destiny it just has something that comes as a giant tsunami on a coast when it is in the ocean it is just a small ripple it is just a small wave but as it comes closer and closer to the coast then because of the opposition, the wave starts becoming bigger and bigger bigger and bigger when it hits the coastline it can cause devastation so like that what starts as just a small some small issue can end up becoming a very big issue if we don’t check it in time if we don’t notice how it is growing thoughts are not just something ethereal, thoughts don’t just produce things, thoughts are themselves things, we have a thought we act on it and then something happens so it’s not that when the thing happens thoughts become things, rather even before then thoughts are things in themselves so there is a subtle level of reality which is different from the gross level of reality but that is also real so thoughts are real things existing in the subtle level of reality and thoughts in that sense are real, now the reason to recognize and reiterate the reality of thoughts is that often we don’t take what is going on in our mental world very seriously okay I had some thoughts like that I had some thoughts like that it doesn’t matter, now if we have negative attitudes, the negative attitudes are going to shape us consciously or subconsciously and if we don’t want to be shaped in a wrong way then we have to take charge of our inner life, take charge of our thoughts so the thoughts are they have the power of what you could say materialization just as a seed is something which is going to develop in due course of time and may give rise to a whole tree in the long run, similarly thoughts have the power of actualization so the thought it is said is the ancestor to the believer, so the kind of thoughts we have they are going to give rise to deeds and just like in a liver if we manipulate the liver at the right point just by applying a little force we can move a huge stone and by applying that force in a wrong way we can make a, we can cause a big stone to move in a wrong direction similarly we can if we apply a little discipline in our inner world, in our mental level of reality and we discipline thoughts, cultivate thoughts in a particular direction and avoid thoughts in a particular direction, cultivate positive thoughts, avoid negative thoughts then that can have significant positive or negative effects for us so the important thing to recognize is this power of thoughts and by recognizing this power of thoughts we can shape our own destiny in a proper way rather than letting ourselves get carried away by negative things happening, we can channelize an energy towards positive reality and thus move closer and closer towards actualizing our full potential, so our thoughts are anyway going to shape our destiny, just like even if a person does not water and flow and cultivate a land then the land weeds are going to grow, so like that there are going to be stray thoughts that are going to come in our mind and those stray thoughts are going to germinate and they are going to create, they are going to shape our destiny, so we cannot stop the power of thoughts, we can only choose how to direct that power by choosing the kind of thoughts we want to cultivate, our thoughts are going to be creators our choice is whether we will be unwitting participants where we let the stray thoughts that come in our mind should often tend to be negative or waste thoughts, whether we let those stray thoughts shape our destiny or we consciously choose and cultivate positive thoughts and let them shape a positive destiny for us that is the choice which we can contemplate and activate by recognizing the subtle power of thoughts, thank you. Hare Krishna