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The Source ...Power of Happy Thoughts 1 Praise for Sirshree and his work “Many books talk about having the right thoughts, but don’t show you how. The uniqueness of this book is that it shows how to create the right thoughts from inside. It shows exactly how to handle negativities around us by tapping the source within. This book is meant for humanity and if you are a good human being, you should take it, read it, follow the path, and make others understand it.” - Shah Rukh Khan, Actor, while releasing ‘The Source ... The Power of Happy Thoughts’ “Human Action comes from human motivation... human thought. So that is the Power of Happy Thoughts. These are very right words. Many problems today exist because of negligence of inner peace. So first create inner peace through Happy Thoughts which shall then even guide science and technology in the external world.” - His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, while releasing ‘The Warrior’s Mirror’ by Sirshree on 10/10/10 in ten languages “Friends and colleagues in the field of Yoga : “Meditation”, the book which I have read, is no doubt a guide for you. I appreciated the book and I think each and everyone should have in their hands and when there’s friction, you can go through, so that your mind develops the qualities of quietness and peace.” - Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar while releasing Sirshree’s book, ‘Complete Meditation’ on 1/10/07

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Praise for Sirshree and his work

“Many books talk about having the right thoughts, but don’t showyou how. The uniqueness of this book is that it shows how to createthe  right  thoughts  from  inside.  It  shows  exactly  how  to  handlenegativities around us by tapping the source within. This book ismeant for humanity and if you are a good human being, you shouldtake it, read it, follow the path, and make others understand it.”

- Shah Rukh Khan, Actor, while releasing ‘The Source ... ThePower of Happy Thoughts’

“Human Action comes from human motivation... human thought.So  that  is  the Power  of Happy Thoughts. These  are  very  rightwords. Many problems today exist because of negligence of innerpeace. So first create inner peace through Happy Thoughts whichshall  then  even  guide  science  and  technology  in  the  externalworld.”

- His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, while releasing ‘The Warrior’sMirror’ by Sirshree on 10/10/10 in ten languages

“Friends and colleagues in the field of Yoga : “Meditation”, the bookwhich I have read, is no doubt a guide for you. I appreciated thebook and I think each and everyone should have in their hands andwhen there’s friction, you can go through, so that your mind developsthe qualities of quietness and peace.”

- Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar while releasing Sirshree’s book,‘Complete Meditation’ on 1/10/07

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Sirshree“Sirshree’s advice is always practical, based on his awareness of theways of the world, and instep with a progressive vision of life.”

- The Telegraph

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The Source ...Power of Happy Thoughts

By Sirshree Tejparkhi

© Tejgyan Global Foundation, 2011.

All Rights Reserved.

Tejgyan Global Foundation is a charitable organization with its

headquarters in Pune, India.

First Edition : Nov 2011

Fourth Edition : Jan 2015

First Reprint : Apr 2015

Published by : Tejgyan Global Foundation, Pune

Printed by : Vikram Printers Pvt. Ltd., Pune

All rights including copyrights and publishing rights reserved and vested exclusively with

Tejgyan Global Foundation.This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way

of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher s

prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published

and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent

purchaser and without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this

publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted,

in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,

without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above-mentioned

publisher of this book. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication

may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

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This book is dedicated to allthe great psychologists and

thinkers, who discovered theLaws of the mind that every erashall continue to benefit from.

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SirshreeAlso by Sirshree

1. The Magic of Awakening

2. The Unshaken Mind

3. Complete Meditation - 222

Questions

4. The Complete Meditator

5. The Supreme Quest

6. Enlightenment

7. Self Enquiry

8. The Greatest Freedom

9. The Essence of Devotion

Self Help TreasuresSelf Development books

for success seekers

10. Inner Ninety Hidden Infinity

11. Inner Magic

12. Self Encounter - In Action

13. The Spirit of New

14. Invisible Confidence

Visible Faith

15. The Five Supreme Secrets of Life

New Age Nuggets

Practical books on applied

spirituality and self help

19. Excuse Me Money...

20. Thoughts For Tea

21. Help God to Help You

22. Freedom From Fear, Worry,

Anger

23. 365 Happy Quotes

24. Ultimate Purpose of Success

25. The Unshaken Flame of Peace

26. Everything Is a Game of Beliefs

Profound Parables

Fiction books containing

profound truths

27. Beyond Life

28. The One Above

29. The Warrior s Mirror

30. The Soul Purpose

31. Put Stress to Rest

32. Get Hired by God

Children's Classics

Value education books for children

33. Excuse Me Dear God...

34. Wish Anger Away

35. The Buddha

36. Success Mantras for Children

Youth Transformers

Transformational books

for the youth

37. Inner 90 For Teens

Spiritual Masterpieces

Self Realisation books

for serious seekers

16. The Source

17. Secret of Happiness

18. Excuse Me God...

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Introduction The Power of Happy Thoughts 9

Editors' Note How to read this book 13

Part One - Be Aware

Part One Thought Rules to be aware of 17

Sutra 1 Before anything is created 21in the physical plane, it is firstcreated from the Source in the mental plane

Questions and Answers 26

Sutra 2 When you direct thoughts consciously 35and passionately, they manifest

Questions and Answers 40

Sutra 3 Focus on what you want, 46not what you don t want

Questions and Answers 52

Sutra 4 The world is not as it appears 61to you. The world is how youare

Questions and Answers 66

Sutra 5 There is abundance of everything 73for everyone

Questions and Answers 78

Sutra 6 People s thoughts do not affect 83you until you allow them to

Questions and Answers 88

Contents

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SirshreeSutra 7 Align your feelings, thoughts, 98

words and actions to achieveyour highest potential

Questions and Answers 103

Part Two - Be Connected, Be Happy

Part Two Source Tools to be connected 113

and to be happy

Mantra 1 Next 121

Questions and Answers 124

Mantra 2 Who am I 128

Questions and Answers 134

Mantra 3 A B C D 139

Questions and Answers 143

Mantra 4 I am 150

Questions and Answers 155

Mantra 5 Good Morning Peace 160

Questions and Answers 166

Mantra 6 Can I accept this? 173

Questions and Answers 180

Mantra 7 Thank You 186

Questions and Answers 191

Part Three

Creating from The Source

Summary of Sutras & Mantras 199

Case Study of a Student 201

Case Study of a Spouse 203

Case Study of a Job Seeker 206

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A sk yourself these questions:

Can one declaration from me make the world a happier place?

Can one unique idea from me give direction to the world?

Can one powerful goal from me change the world?

The answers to all these questions can be a resounding ‘yes’ if

you resolve, “From today onwards, in everything that I see, every

person I interact with, and every event I am involved in, I will

deliberately think and speak only Happy Thoughts.”

So,  what  is  the  Power  of  Happy Thoughts?  Do  not

misunderstand it as mere positive thinking.

This is what a positive thinker will say, “Problems do not lie

Introduction

The Power of Happy Thoughts

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outside,  but merely  exist  in  your  head. What  you  think  as

impossible  is  only  impossible because  you  think  it  so. The

impossible does not live outside of you – it is within you. You

have the power to change everything.”

Having Happy Thoughts is much more than positive thinking.

One who practices The Power of Happy Thoughts, has a deep

assurance within. He  or  she does  not  look  at problems  as

problems at all. His or her peace is not disturbed come what

may. He or she understands that filling one’s life with both,

peaceful experiences and truthful thoughts, leads to a bountiful

and wonderful life. He or she gives importance to having the

right thoughts and being happy.

The “Power of Happy Thoughts”refers to two parts:

Thoughts: The  one who  harnesses  the  Power  of Happy

Thoughts, gives direction to his thoughts.

Happiness: The  one who  harnesses  the  Power  of Happy

Thoughts, operates happily from TheSource.

What is this Source? The Source is the background from where

thinking, feeling, and doing emanate from. Beyond the three

dimensions of thoughts, feelings and actions, lies the dimension

that holds the key. This dimension is consciousness itself – the

existential experience of being alive, the realm of being. Since it

is the principal dimension of all, on the foundation of which

everything operates in a human life, it is called The Source.

The Source is the creative principle, the source of all possibilities.

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When The Source is experienced, the qualities of consciousness

such as abundance, purity, joy, compassion, love, courage, peace,

harmony, and creativity are manifested. By doing so, we can

create a perfect life, not only for us, but also for everyone around

us.

When The Source is accessed, you shall say, “The only problem

is  to  see  a problem  as  a  problem.” You  go beyond positive

thinking. Problems are no longer an issue. There is no need to

wish problems away.

To create a perfect life, it is important to understand both,The

Source and the thoughts that arise in The Source. Both “being”

and “thinking”. Both “right thinking” and “peaceful being”.Both

“happiness” and “thoughts”.The simple action plan for anyone

to create apowerful life is to live a life of “Happy Thoughts”.

The question then arises, “How to live a life of Happy Thoughts?

The three simple steps to practice Happy Thoughts are to be

aware, be connected and be happy:

Step 1. Be Aware: Be aware of your thoughts

Step 2. Be Connected: Be connected to the Source

Step 3. Be Happy:Be happy always

Between thoughts (step 1) and happiness (step 3), The Source

(Step 2) has been placed. The Source is the missing link. The

Power  of Happy Thoughts  cannot  be  harnessed  till  you

understand and connect to The Soure – the background from

Introduction

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where happiness and thoughts arise – which is all-pervading.

As you explore these pages, you will see and experience that this

beautiful and simple message of Happy Thoughts, the missing

link of The Source and the three easy steps of being aware, being

connected, and being happy  is the path of practical spirituality.

Instead of getting caught in constantly trying to achieve things,

you  will  operate  from  a  happy  natural  state  where  you

automatically progress towards your highest potential. Yes! You

can effortlessly create a perfect life. Happy Thoughts is the way.

The key to this way is to be aware, be connected and be happy.Let

us explore each of these parts step by step.

Happy Thoughts!

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A s mentioned in the preface, the Power of Happy Thoughtscan  be  harnessed  through  three  steps:  being  aware,  beingconnected, being happy.

“Part One: Be Aware” outlines the seven sutras (rules) that helpyou be aware of your thoughts.

“Part Two: Be Connected and Be Happy” first outlines fourmantras (tools) that help you to be connected to The Sourceand then goes on to provide three mantras (tools) that help youto be happy always.

As you read this book, you shall discover seven sutras (rules)and seven mantras (tools) to effortlessly create a perfect life.

The book ends with Part Three where case studies of how toapply what you learnt in Part One and Part Two are mentioned.It is recommended that you read these parts sequentially – first

Part One and then Part Two and so forth.

Editors' Note

How to read this book

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Part One and Part Two – the most important sections of thebook – consist of thirty chapters. Thus, if you like, you canread this book as a monthly retreat, one chapter a day, graduallycontemplating and applying what you have learnt.

This book has been compiled from various discourses by theauthor and Question & Answer sessions with him. In thesequestions asked by numerous people from all walks of life, youwill find answers to many of your own questions. A “questionand answer chapter” follows every sutra and mantra. You maydecide to skip the question and answers if you want a quickread, although as stated above, they will no doubt answer manyof your own questions.

Important points have been marked in bold.

Various examples and stories are mentioned in the book. Theyare tabbed and written in italics similar to how this sentence isformatted.

A DVD has also been presented with this book that expoundsthe sutras and contains practical meditations. The DVD containsdiscourses and meditations delivered  in Hindi with Englishsubtitles.

We look forward to your feedback and results – about how youhave created a perfect life – through the secrets revealed in thepages that follow.

Best wishes,

Editors

Email: [email protected]

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BeAware

Thought Rules (Sutras)

Part One

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Part One

Thought Rules to be aware of

To be aware of your thoughts, understand the laws of thought.

When you understand the laws, you can master the science of

thoughts. Thought Rules are the laws of thought. Laws exist

naturally,  while  rules  are made  by  humans. When  you

contemplate the laws of nature and create a perfect life, then

you have mastered the laws. You have learned to rule them.

Thought Rules are the laws of thought. As there are physical

laws that govern the world, so too are there mental laws. These

rules have existed since time immemorial and precede man. They

are unchanging and continually at work – regardless of whether

or not man seeks to understand them. They are universal and

apply to everyone without exception.

Thought Rules

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An  important  aspect  of  these  laws  is  that  they  are  at work

whether you choose to believe in them or not. One of nature’s

physical laws is that fire will scald you if you get too close to it.

Whether a man recognizes this law is irrelevant. The fire will

burn him  regardless  –  it  is not  a matter  of  faith. However

knowing and believing in this law will help you use it, because

you are the master of nature’s laws the moment you understand

and abide by them.

One may argue that the above statement only applies to physical

laws. But, just as physical laws can be experimented with and

observed in the laboratory, mental laws can be deciphered and

measured in the laboratory of life. Your own life experiences

will tell you that these mental laws work, and it is not difficult

to discover for yourself the way they work.

Close your eyes and visualize your favorite fruit in the refrigerator.Visualize taking the fruit out and cutting it. Visualize slowly

eating the fruit or squeezing it into juice. Slowly, finish eatingthe fruit mentally. Now check what happened with your tongue.

If you concentrated on the task, you should be salivating a bit.Your saliva is evidence that a thought held strongly in the mind

manifests on the body too.

Let us look at one more example. You may be of the beliefthatpeople treat you badly. Indeed, people mistreat you

badlybecauseyou believe it to be so. When you change thisthought and begin to realize that the problem lies actually in

believing in the thought that others are bad, then you will beginto experience that people behave well with you. So, what

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changed? Just their thoughts!

There are some who believe that something bad always happens

to them in the end: they falter at the finishing line. When it istheir turn at the ticket window, the movie gets sold out. Once

they understand that it is all about their thoughts and they replacetheir negative thoughts with, “I always complete all things

completely,” they find that the world begins to support them.Now they are offered tickets by a stranger even when the movie

is sold out. So, what changed? The only thing that changed wastheir thoughts.

All these are examples of the following statement :

Before anything in this world is created in the physicalplane, it is first created in the mental plane.

The statement above  is one of  the key Thought Rules,  that

things are created first on the mental plane. This is the first

sutra, the first Thought Rule that you will understand in the

next chapter. You will also see scientific evidence of this sutra in

the questions and answers that follow. Every sutra or mantra in

this book is followed by a clarifying “questions and answers”

section. As you learn further Thought Rules or sutras, there are

two things that will help you gain evidence about these sutras.

One is your past; contemplate how the sutra has been true for

you in the past. And if you cannot think of any evidence of it

from the past, experiment with the sutra. Apply the Thought

Rule in your life and the results in the immediate future will

give you enough proof.

In the next chapter, we will explore the first sutra.

Thought Rule to be aware of

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Be aware

Be aware of your thoughts. Be aware of how your thoughts

work. The seven sutras that follow help you to be deeply aware

of your thoughts.Be aware of what you are creating in the mental

plane. Be aware not to pass the wrong orders with your thoughts.

Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. Be aware

that you are not complaining about others since the world is a

mirror. Be aware that you do not block the natural progression

towards your highest potential through any negative thoughts.

Be  aware  of  the  impact  of  negative  thoughts  of  others  on

you.Simply stated, be aware of what thoughts you are seeding

in your mind.

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If you observe people closely, you will discover that there aresome who are successful and others who are not, and that someare growing while others are not. Those that are growing bothspiritually and materially know certain laws of how life works.They are aware of the rules of life to some extent, even if theycannot put the said laws to words. They have figured out thingslike, “Where your attention goes, results flow.” On the otherhand, those that have stopped growing are living as if they arecarrying out a prison sentence.

There is also the third category of people – who are neitherfailures nor completely successful. They may not have majorissues in their lives, but they are overwhelmed by minor struggles.

Why is this so? There is a law of creation that brings about thisdifference in people.

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Before anything is created in the

physical plane, it is first created

in the mental plane

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This  law of  creation  is,“ Before anything in this world iscreated in the physical plane, it is first created from theSource in the mental plane.” This is the fundamental ThoughtRule.Once you consider that everything is created first from the Soucein  the mental  realm,  thenthe  importance of creating  thingspositively in your mind first will not be lost to you.

Imagine a river that represents the flow of life. Thoughts fallinto the river, and as the river flows, it gives life to those thoughts.Whatever thoughts you put into the river will manifest. If youput thoughts of poverty and scarcity into the river, you willmanifest  poverty,  you will  experience  scarcity.  If  you  putloneliness into the river, you will manifest loneliness. By thesame  law,  though,  if  you put  seeds  of  abundance,  success,happiness, love and health into the river of manifestation, youcannot help but experience them in your life.

This  river  of manifestation  originates  from  the Source  andculminates in it. The Source is the ocean of life, from whereeverything arises, in which everything blossoms, due to whicheverything  is  being  sustained,  and  into which  everythingultimately dissolves. As immense and all-pervading as it is, thisocean of life shows no judgment. Anything that arises in theSource is enlivened and manifested without bias.

How thoughts create things can be further understood throughthis experiment.

A prisoner in France had been sentenced to death, and scientistsexperimenting on the conscious and subconscious mind werepermitted to put him to death through a scientific experiment.

The prisoner was made to lie down on a cot and the method by

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which he would die was explained to him, “We will slowlyremove all the blood from your body. When one bottle of bloodhas been removed, you will begin sweating. On removing thesecond bottle, your body will experience weakness. After thethird, there will be darkness beforeyour eyes. After the fourth,all your senses will stop working and unconsciousness will seepin. After a few hours of all the blood being removed, you shalldie.”

Thereafter, the blood was drawn from the prisoner’s body. Aftereach bottle, he experienced the exact symptoms that had beennarrated to him, and finally he died.

However, in reality, just one bottle of blood was drawn fromthe prisoner’s body. The scientists had arranged to have anothertube below his bed that dropped water into a tub. The prisonermistook this sound to be that of his blood falling. He wasconstantly thinking, “All the blood is being drawn from mybody and I am dying.” This is the thought that was going on inhis mind, and it is that which caused him to die.

This was an example of how thoughts first arise in the mentalplane and then manifest in the physical plane. Various otherexperiments also demonstrate this principle.

In another experiment, a man was taken into a deep state ofmind through the power of suggestion and told, “Now, a red-hot iron rod will be placed on your arm.” Then a rod that wasat normal temperature was placed on his arm, but within a fewminutes a large blister came up at the point of contact! Withthis experiment, scientists were convinced that if a blister coulddevelop because of thoughts, then a blister could also be curedby thoughts.

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The man was again taken into a deep state of mind and hisblister was cured by suggestion.

Your body is made up of five elements: ether, air, fire, water andearth. When you think that it’s a cold day, this thought alsomanifests in the physical plane. The water element in your cellsbegins to predominate and you start feeling cold. When youthink it’s hot, the fire element in your body becomes prominentand you start feeling hot. From now on, if you want to feelcool while sitting in a hot room, you can do so. “I am on thesnow-capped Himalayas” – if you hold this thought in yourmind for one minute or more, you will feel less hot or evencold. The more time you hold the thought, the greater will beits effect.

To further understand how this fundamental Thought Rule(Sutra) works, you need to understand how your mind works.The  mind  can  be  divided  into  the  conscious  and  thesubconscious.

What is the difference between the conscious and subconsciousmind? The difference between them is as vast as the differencebetween a breeze and a storm. The workings of the consciousmind are visible, while the workings of the subconscious mindare invisible. The subconscious mind works silently, while theconscious mind sees and experiences every feeling and thought,makes judgments, jumps to conclusions, and is restless.

Our subconscious mind works according to the instructionsreceived from the conscious mind; however the true controlroom  is  in  the  subconscious mind.  It  does not  distinguishbetween  right  and wrong.  It merely  executes  and manifeststhoughts provided by our conscious mind. If our subconscious

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mind receives a wrong instruction – in this case thoughts – suchas, “I can fall sick, I am poor, I can fail...” these thoughts mayturn into reality. Hence it is important to always be aware ofyour thoughts and to watch what messages you are sending toyour inner mind.

The relationship between the body and the mind runs deep,and all  thoughts, whether positive or negative,  impact yourhealth. Thoughts hold so much power that if you train yourselfto hold one thought in your mind for one minute, miracleswill soon begin to manifest in your life. At this time, you mayfeel that this is impossible, but read further and you will beginto see how. You have already seen an example that as soon asyou think of something tasty, your mouth begins to water. Thisis because of  the  following  law: Our subconscious cannotsee the difference between what is real and what isimaginary. This is the corollary to the first Thought Rule. Onceyou understand that the inner mind does not know the differencebetween a real and an imaginary event, it is easy to understandthe first sutra that things are first created in the mental planeand then manifest in the physical plane. Things change in yourbody based on the thoughts you harbor, and things also manifestin your life based on your thoughts. This means you can easilyattain anything you want – through your thoughts. All that isneeded is the right understanding, a positive outlook, and pureintention.

You will understand further how things manifest in your lifebased on your thoughts when you understand the second sutra.

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Questions and Answers

Q 1. How is it that I hold onto a thought, and things

accordingly manifest in my life?

Let us understand through an example :

You may be aware that all street light poles are connected

with each other through wires. Similarly, an individual

is connected with everyone in the world through his or

her thoughts. Every person can be thought of as a

“thought pole” that transmits and receives thoughts. If

a negative thought arises in one pole, what will happen?

Let us assume that half the people in the world are

negative thinkers and the rest are positive thinkers. As

soon as you think a negative thought, you link up to all

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the negative thinkers of the world. This means all their

negative energy, as well as all the negative elements of

the world, begin to move towards you. If you stop your

negative thinking, then they stop approaching. But if

you continue to entertain the same negative thoughts

for years on end, then all the negative energies and

elements from all corners of the Earth will reach you

and destroy your life. On the other hand, if you harbor

Happy Thoughts, you link up to all the positive thinkers

across the world. Therefore, all the positive energies and

positive elements of the world reach you and endow

you with health and prosperity.

You need to remember that the channels through which you

give negative or positive energy are the same channels from which

you receive. This means that your thoughts transmit to everyone

in the world and everyone else’s thoughts transmit to you,

because everyone is connected with each other. Hence, you must

always harbor Happy Thoughts and attract positive energies to

your life.

From the analogy above, understand what a disastrous effect

negative thinking has on your life. Since man is unable to see

this process, he feels it is alright to entertain negative thoughts

once in a while. But, now that you are able to see their effects,

you will never again entertain a single negative thought.

Man gets entangled in negative thoughts and invites suffering

on a global scale due to his ignorance of the Thought Rules and

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a  lack  of  control  over  his  thoughts. He does  not have  the

slightest clue that the primary cause of his suffering is his own

thoughts.

More often,  he believes  others  to  be  the  cause  and  blames

them. But, when his mind receives adequate training, the secret

will unfold before him  that  the cause of his  suffering  is his

own thoughts.

Those who realize the importance of training their mind, take

on  the  training  required  for  their mind  and  through  their

thoughts better themselves and the world, while those who do

not realize the significance of this training run away from it by

offering excuses.

Q 2. How do we train our minds?

To train your mind, you must change its SICK programming.

SICK is an acronym to signify “Sorrow born out of Ignorance

during Childhood due to Krazy beliefs”. It is “crazy” with a

capital  K  to  denote  big  baseless  assumptions.  All  the

programming of your mind has taken place during childhood,

in ignorance, by being habituated to the feeling of sorrow arising

from Krazy  baseless  assumptions  that were  drawn without

understanding  the  full  picture  of  life.  What  kind  of

programming can take place in such a state? The wrong kind.

What mental structure has taken shape within you? The wrong

kind.As a child, the first time your mind saw your body being

injured – or observed yourself crying- or being abused or slapped

–you did not know how to look at this event. You witnessed

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that scene in ignorance and sorrow and made crazy and baseless

conclusions about  life. Then you carried this understanding

throughout your life, and not once it may have occurred to

you to change your  thoughts. Maybe,  these assumptions or

beliefs were  required  in childhood  for whatever  reason, but

they are no longer required. You have probably not considered

changing your thoughts  since you are not  trained to do so.

But now that you are an adult, you are gaining the knowledge

to  alter  the  very manner  in  which  your mind  processes

information. You will  be  able  to  rewrite  the  old  records  of

SICK programming with Good programming, and then move

further  to God  (Divine)  programming. You will  become  a

stronger,  happier  and  a more  positive  individual with  a

constructive influence on the world.

The way your mind saw a given event for the first time is the

way it sees similar events even today, regardless of whether or

not you realize it. If today, somebody speaks to you of abusing

or slapping someone, your mind starts to re-envision the same

misery it experienced before when someone abused or slapped

you. Whatever you experience from morning to night, it is your

mental programming that directs you. If during your childhood,

your mind developed the association that if you sweat it means

you are tired, then that is precisely what it will tell you now.

Automatically, without consulting you, your mind passes the

order along to your body that you are tired, and a wave of fatigue

passes through you so that you actually feel tired – regardless of

the reason for your having sweated. In this manner, countless

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associations  have  been made,  but  you need  to  change  this

programming and develop new ones.

Q 3. How does the mind get programmed in the first

place?

When a thought is repeated again and again, it seeps in and

settles  in  your  subconscious  mind. This  is  the  process

ofprogramming the mind. Programming can be either positive

or negative. For  example,  if  you always  think,  “There  is  an

abundance of wealth,” then you’re much less likely to experience

a lack of money in your life. If you repeatedly think, “I have

great self-confidence,” then all of your life’s work will reflect

that confidence. This is positive programming.

We  are  continuously  programming  our mind  right  from

childhood. A child does not know what is right or wrong, but

whenever he is given a thought he imbibes it. This is how his

mind gets programmed:

A mother tells her child, “Son, we are going to have some guests

in our house this evening.” Sure enough, the child sees guests

arrive in the evening. One day, she tells him, “It is going to rain

today,” and he sees it rain that day. Since the child is naive, he

does not realize that his mother had called the guests over or

that she had heard the news and had predicted the rain. The

child feels that whatever his mother says is always right. Then

one day, she tells him, “You are good for nothing.” He feels she

is right, and that thought goes deep into his mind, and with

time it eventually settles or gets imprinted there. In this manner,

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his mind is negatively programmed, and as a result, even upon

growing up he cannot perform any task with efficiency.

SICK programming  of  a  child’s mind  takes place  through

parents, teachers, friends, advertisements, priests, and politicians.

If the teacher repeatedly tells the child that he is weak in mathor

is always ill, then his subconscious mind accepts it to be true.

This is how the mind gets programmed from childhood, and

the  individual  functions  according  to  this  programming

throughout life. Due to this programming, erroneous tendencies

and patterns begin to develop, and situations begin to occur

repeatedly. For instance, some people have a late pattern. Even

when they want to reach a given place on time – even when

they start out early, their programming of always being late has

become so strong, that they are unable to reach anywhere on

time. They are late every time and repeat this pattern all their

life.

These wrong– thinking patterns make our body susceptible to

various diseases too, called psychosomatic disorders, where 90%

of the diseases are due to the effect of the mind on the body.

Q 4. Can you further explain what psychosomatic disorders

are?

They are physical diseases that are caused or made worse by

mental factors. Many doctors believe that illnesses like ulcers,

irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, eczema, psoriasis, high blood

pressure,  and  heart  attacks  are  strongly  influenced  by

psychological factors.

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Besides doctors, scientists too have begun to give credence to

the importance of Thought Rules, and some scientists predict

that there will be devices to help us discover and harness these

laws of creation.

Q5. Speaking of science, is there any scientific evidence

that things get created from our thoughts?

The best evidence would be to contemplate in your own life

and see how you first harbored a thought and then it manifested

into reality. Experiment with the Sutra so that your conviction

grows. However, since you asked about scientific evidence, let

us understand  this more with  some  lessons  from Quantum

Physics.

Quantum Physics is that branch of science that deals with the

energy the universe is made up of. The universe is made up of

atoms, and every atom is made up of subatomic particles of

protons and neutrons, while electrons orbit around the center.

One of the most compelling discoveries of quantum physics

was that subatomic particles can behave like a wave. Think on

the implications of such a thing. Subatomic particles – electrons

– are constantly teleporting around an atom, never being in one

place at a time. In reality, they move through every possible

path to their new destination, in a manner similar to that of a

wave.

What quantum physics discovered was that when firing electrons

through two slits, it produced a pattern of light and dark areas

on the target surface – not simply two highlighted areas, but a

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striated pattern. With only one slit, there was a simple and even

distribution, but with two, the electron waves interfered with

one another to cancel each other out in some places, and thus

generate a pattern of lines. They tried shooting one electron

at atime, expecting each electron to pick a slit and once again

produce an even distribution, but what they discovered was that

they still interfered with one another – this means that each

individual electron was moving through both slits at the same

time, just like a wave. Things got even more interesting when

scientists tried to observe this process, because the act of seeing

the electron forced it to “choose” a specific slit, and therefore

not cause interference to the others. The act of watching an

electron forces it to move like a particle and not a wave.

So what does that mean for us? When you consider that our

entire world is made up of electrons and other small particles,

the implications are enormous. An observer actually modifies

objective events on a subatomic level. Our act of observation,

thought, and emotion affect the world. When scientists made

attempts to watch an electron and decide where it would go,

they found that wherever the observer anticipated it would show

up is where it would show up!

Put simply, scientists conducting these experiments discovered

that the results were always affected by their own thoughts.

Things are first created in the mental plane. These experiments

categorically prove that the essential substance from which the

Universe is made responds to our thoughts.