think of
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THINK OFWHAT YOU ARE
TO GUIDE YOU INTOWHAT YOU WANT TO
BEThe ‘Science of God’ for mastering the ‘Science of Thought’ that enables one to
‘Decree’ a thing and bring it to pass.”
By
KRISHNAN SUBRAHMANYAM# B 101, GOPALAN GRANDEUR,
HOODI CIRCLE,MAHADEVPURA POST,
WHITEFIELD,BENGALURU – 560048
PHONE: + 91 080 4202 4439MOBILE: + 91 0 93419 03419
E-mail: [email protected]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SACRED SPACE 3
DEDICATION 4
PRELUDE 5
THE INTRODUCTION 14
THE DISCOVERY 18
THE MAKING OVER 26
THE SCIENCE OF GOD 32
THE SCIENCE OF THOUGHT 39
THE AWAKENING 49
THE APPLICATION 68
THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS 73
THE SCIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION 84
THE INCOMING 89
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SACRED SPACE
“My ideal can indeed be put into a few words and that is: to preach unto mankind
their Divinity and how to make it manifest in every movement of life…Let us call
and call till the sleeping Gods awake, till the God within answers the call.”
= Swami Vivekananda =
“Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God,
First fill your own house with the fragrance of love…
Go not to the temple to light the candles before the altar of God,
First remove the darkness of sin from your heart…
Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,
First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden…
Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,
First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.”
= Rabindranath Tagore =
“The Divine never lets you down. I have an abiding faith in the Divine, Which
does not call for performing any rituals. See yourself as an instrument of the
Divine and do everything as Its instrument. Success will then not raise you to
dizzying heights nor will adversity leave you in darkness. You will thereby remain
God’s instrument.”
= Jit Paul (Apeejaysurrendra, Kolkata) =
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DEDICATION
“I am only one, but still I am one;
I cannot do everything; but still I can do something;
and just because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
= Helen Keller =
There are thousands and thousands of children who only dream of
school; there are thousands and thousands of forlorn senior citizens who are left
to fend for themselves in the twilight of their lives.
The only purpose of my existence is to help some of these children
realize their dreams; to give succor and lessen the agony of some of these senior
citizens. I am here for the sake of others… for the countless unknown souls with
whom I am one eternally.
This first book from me is dedicated to those children and senior
citizens who are counting on me.
“To understand the heart and mind of a person,
look not at what he has achieved but at what he aspires to do.”
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= Kahlil Gibran =
APOLOGY
At a time when the world is more deeply agitated concerning spiritual matters,
than it has been for many years;
When people are turning away, sick at heart, from a blind materialistic belief,
which reaches no further than their mere physical bodies;
At such a time, whoever has a word of spiritual help or encouragement to give,
let him not withhold it through any false pride.
This is the only apology offered for the book.
- CHARLES BRODIE PATTERSON.
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PRELUDE
“I expect to pass this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any
kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not
defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” = Stephen Grellet =
Henry Drummond, the famous writer was absolutely right when he wrote:
“Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness”.
For 58 years’ of my life, I too was running on the wrong track, not by
choice but not knowing the right. Yes, I was a self centered man thinking of, living
for and paying all my attention to my own ‘self’ and my family members and
running after success and happiness.
I was like a new born kitten whose eyes are still to open, quite ignorant and
was not aware of my real inward and essential nature that was concealed from
me because of my limited comprehension.
It was only when I was struck with a catastrophe of the worst kind in my life
that I introspected and the hidden force within me rallied my defeated soul and its
energies that led me to tap the deeper recesses of my being that I never thought
existed.
I thank God for opening the eyes of my heart and renewing my mind and
thus helping me to transform myself. The veil of ignorance has now given its
place to the true awareness of the essential nature of my being.
I have now recognized that only in harmony with the “Laws of Life” that one
can fill the whole of life with happiness, peace, joy and beauty. I am now
awakened to the truth that the Creator, God, which brought the whole world into
existence, is the root of my individuality.
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I am now awakened to the truth that I am here to do God’s work which is to
give to all my fellow-men all that I have without any thought of return.
I have now grasped the true meaning behind the age old saying, “Aham
Brahmasmi” which literally means “I AM THAT I AM”; I am a cell in the body of
the universe. The selfish ‘I’ in me met with its natural death and has now given its
place to the selfless ‘I’.
“Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit,
not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the
standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here
for the sake of others… for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are
connected by a bond of sympathy.” = Albert Einstein =
I am resolved that henceforth my purpose in life is to bring joy, happiness,
and encouragement to every person whom I come into contact with. I am
resolved to devote the rest of my life to the development and growth of my
spiritual, mental, and physical capacities so that I can serve as an example to
others. To help everyone see the greatness that resides within them that will
allow them to live their dreams so that they can share the fruit of their endeavors
with their loved ones as well as humanity.
The whole world is full of problems and people all over the world are a-
seeking for solutions. There is cut-throat competition everywhere. It exists in
education, in social life as well as in business. Everybody thinks that money is
everything. The spirit of cut-throat competition only for wealth has led to
accumulation of wealth at the cost of law and ethics.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Claw your way to the top or anything for a buck
mentality so many believes to be the only way to wealth. There is total
negligence of all ethical values and as a result there is fear, anxiety and
purposelessness everywhere.
The root cause of all these problems is illusion, passion and ignorance.
Man forgets his real spiritual nature. This forgetfulness is due to the influence of
matter or materialistic nature. Everything that exists in the world is a product of
Spirit and matter. Spirit is the basic field of creation. Spirit is not created at a
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certain stage of material development. Rather, this material world is manifested
only on the basis of spiritual energy. This material body is developed because
Spirit is present within the body.
Spirit is the most important part of the body. Without the presence of
Spirit, the body has no value. Still, man is placing great stress on the bodily
necessities of life, not caring for the vital Spirit. Spirit is the cause and matter is
the effect. Spirit and matter, which combine to manifest this gigantic Universe,
are originally the energies of God and hence God is the original cause of
everything. Man will become free from materialistic influence only when he
realizes as to what is within him.
Swami Vivekananda explains beautifully (in Raja Yoga) the superiority of
spiritual excellence as under:
“So all progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's
nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course. If anyone
can take the bar off, in rushes nature. Then the man attains the powers which are
his already. ……….Competitions for life or sex-gratification are only momentary,
unnecessary, extraneous effects, caused by ignorance. Even when all
competition has ceased, this perfect nature behind will make us go forward until
everyone has become perfect. Therefore there is no reason to believe that
competition is necessary to progress. In the animal the man was suppressed, but
as soon as the door was opened, out rushed man. So in man there is the
potential God, kept in by the locks and bars of ignorance. When knowledge
breaks these bars, the God becomes manifest. And there is nothing under the
sun which an awakened soul cannot achieve. The need is to awaken the Higher
Self, the God, in man.”
An old adage says: "God has a plan for every man, and He has one for
you," and this is absolutely correct. Whoever you are, God has not made you
without a definite purpose in view. The Universe is a universe; that is, it is a
unified harmony, a Divine Scheme. There can, therefore, be no such thing, as a
misfit, or an unwanted or unneeded piece. It could not happen that God could
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create a spiritual entity such as you are, without having a special purpose in
view, and this means that there is a special and particular place in it for you. God
never repeats Himself, and so He has never made two people alike, and it is for
this reason that no two people could ever do quite the same work, or express
themselves in quite the same way. That is why, rightly understood, there really
need be no competition. There need be no such thing as, say, two thousand
people struggling for the same place in life. Whatever the place may be, there
can be only one person who can fill it perfectly; and there are one thousand, nine
hundred and ninety-nine other places somewhere waiting for the other people if
only they will find them.
There is an almost universal lack of understanding on the part of mankind
that a certain quality of thought brings to the consciousness recognition of an
intelligent power capable of attracting to him, and directing him so, the fulfillment
of his purpose and attainment of his desire. On the other hand, the inversion of
the same power produces negative result. What I mean is that a certain quality of
thought enables one to do and be what he wishes, while the misuse of the same
power seems to thwart one’s purpose.
Swami Vivekananda described the shortcomings of the mankind as under:
“All the powers in the Universe are already ours. It is we who have put our
hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. We are what our thoughts have
made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts
live; they travel far. When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed
into an actual physical or mental state. We reap what we sow; we are the makers
of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise. There is no help
for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the Universe. Like the silkworm,
you have built a cocoon around yourself……. Burst your cocoon and come out as
the beautiful butterfly - as the free soul. Then alone you will see the truth. In one
word, this ideal is that you are Divine. God sits in the temple of every human
body.”
If one can induce himself to recognize the presence of a Universal
Intelligence which permeates all nature, he must also recognize a corresponding,
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hidden deep down in all things in the trees, the weeds, and flowers, in the
animals and in fact everything, which is ever ready to spring into action when
appealed to. It will respond to one’s call as a child would obey when bidden to
come and play.
Unfortunately, when in distress, man runs hither and thither, knocks every
door, in vain, seeking help from without that is already within him. This is
precisely what we do every time we look outside of ourselves for the solution to
our problems. Led by the material conceptions of life, captivated by what is
visible on the surface and depending on the sense perceptions man never
bothers to look within him. Browning aptly said: “We carry within us the wonders
we seek without us.”
“We live inside, we think inside, our humanity resides within, yet we spend
time ceaselessly looking outside of ourselves for the answers because we fail to
illuminate the inside with our thoughts. We resist the principle that thought is
everything we are, because it seems easier to look outside. Our thoughts are a
magic part of us, and they can carry us to places that have no boundaries and no
limitations. In that dimensionless world of thought everything is possible.”
=Dr.Wayne W Dyer =
People work so hard to bring health to their bodies; to bring prosperity, to
bring happiness, to bring success into their lives; to bring artistic or literary gifts
or talents within their grasp, to bring great new ideas from the outside; and, of
course, they continually fail, because we cannot "bring" a single one of these
things from the without to the within. The actual development is just the very
reverse —they have to be released from the within that they may appear on the
without. In short, we have not to build on from the outside; our task, as Browning
says, is "to set free the imprisoned splendor”.
In all major religions of the world, the quest is to know and become one
with their own conception of God. The study of ‘self’ demonstrated that “Know
Thyself” is the deepest and the best advice, ever given to mankind, for it
embraces the knowledge that character or ‘self’ can be strengthened and
ennobled – that force can be added to one.
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In spite of which man never finds that which he seeks. There are spiritual
powers and influences that withhold the eyes of the seekers from seeing until
they are ready for the revelation, for that is God’s and Nature’s and evolution’s
method.
“You are not a human being having spiritual experience. You are a spiritual
being having human experience.” = Teilhard de Chardin =
Basically, human beings are spiritual beings. I mean they are Divine
beings. Housed in human bodies, they are here to have human experience and
as such they have to function and depend on their physical senses only.
However, over a period of time, they are led or pushed to the realization of their
true identity; led by recognizing and coming into harmony with the higher laws of
their being; or pushed, by violating the laws, and hence through experience,
through suffering, and at times through bitter suffering.
Being a part of the whole humanity, it is my responsibility - rather it is my
duty to be of service to my own fellow-men with whom I am one eternally. I feel
that the greatest service that one can do for another is to help them to help
themselves and there is no better way to help one to help themselves than to
bring them to a knowledge of themselves. There is no better way to bring one to
a knowledge of themselves than to lead them to a knowledge of the powers that
are lying dormant within their own soul.
There is nothing that will enable them to come more readily or more
completely into an awakened knowledge of the powers that are lying dormant
within their own soul, than to bring them into conscious realization of their
oneness with the Divinity or God that dwells within them so that they may open
themselves to It in order that It may work and manifest through them.
It has been my earnest desire to share whatsoever little knowledge that I
have acquired thus far (though I am still growing and have a lot to learn) with my
fellow-men. I want to share the truth with others; I want everybody to gain that
knowledge through which the richest and the best that life has in store may be
realized for when you know that a certain thing is so very true and so very
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important, you want everybody else, if possible, to gain all that you have gained
from the understanding and use of that particular thing.
In the long run, no doubt, all will realize their innate divinity either through
wisdom or through suffering. I felt that I have a responsibility, once I became
aware of my true ‘self’, to help others wake up so that before they are pushed to
this realization about their essential nature (as was the case with me), they have
sufficient knowledge with which to mold their life for nobody will willingly continue
to live a life of the little, dwarfed and stunted type, if they once vitally realize the
facts of the larger, fuller and richer life that awaits them; if they understand clearly
the laws and forces governing them, so as to be able to wisely and fully use
them.
“Teach yourselves; teach every one his/her real nature; call upon the
sleeping soul; see how it awakes. Power will come; Glory will come; Purity will
come; and everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is
roused to self –conscious activity.”
I have been inspired by the aforesaid exhortation of Swami Vivekananda
and that is how the idea to write a book on this subject welled up in my thought. I
felt that I have something for the mankind; something that will aid them in their
march upward and onward. I felt that only that which comes straight from one’s
heart can reach the hearts of others; I felt that only that which comes forth
through my spirit can reach the soul of those whom I want to serve.
I have absolutely no personal motive behind writing this book. My object of
writing this book is neither for money nor for name or fame. In fact, I never
thought of writing until 12 months ago. I am really grateful to all those people who
said “NO’ and refused help in the hour of my need. But for them I would not have
introspected and gained such precious knowledge; I would not have realized the
essential and inner nature of my own being. I once again thank all those people
who enabled me to renew my mind and thus get transformed.
Literally translated, Text 22-Ch 2 of Bhagavad Gita says, “As a person
puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new
material bodies, giving up the old and useless one.”
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However, if one studies deeply this text he will find an inspirational
message hidden deep within it. It exhorts one to become free of all anxieties;
become free from lamentation of the past. It advises that one should not waste
his time trying to piece together past conditions and failures.
It exhorts that like the butterfly that discards its cocoon and becomes free
or the bird that gives up its shell and flies free, having come to life, one has to
refrain from clinging to the past in order to start afresh a new life in every way
that includes relationships, lifestyle, habits, way of thinking or whatever it is that
needs to be changed. One should go forth into his new life resplendent and
joyous.
Now here is something to always bear in mind. You cannot put new wine
in old bottles or new patches upon old garments. That is you cannot take with
you into the new consciousness any part of the old man. All of your present
beliefs, fears and limitations are weights that bind you to your present level of
consciousness. If you would transcend this level you must leave behind all that is
now your present self, or conception of yourself.
This is what is meant when Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born
again for except ye be born again ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.” That
is except you leave behind you your present conception of yourself and assume
the nature of the new birth, you will continue to out-picture your present
limitations. That is if you are dissatisfied with your present expression in life the
only way to change it, is to take your attention away from that which seems so
real to you and rise in consciousness to that which you desire to be. You cannot
serve two masters, therefore to take your attention from one state of
consciousness and place it upon another is to die to one and live to the other.
Our natural state is to be ‘rich’. The things that get in our way of becoming
rich are feelings of unworthiness, lack, despair and confusion; and the inability to
master the marketplace of life. Man can control his affairs by right thinking. He
can bring into his experience the things he wished to enjoy if he thinks correctly.
If only people could learn to use their minds correctly they truly could
create everything they want in their lives. The trouble is we are not taught from
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an early age as to how to use our minds. Most of us were not taught these laws
in school or by our parents. Not because they didn’t love us or want us to know
about them, they simply weren’t aware of them.
The education system in place today is outdated. It was designed to give
people the skills to work in industries, offices, and so on. It teaches working skills,
not the real nature of man’s being. All they teach is, “Study these skills, get a job,
and you will get paid.” They are not taught about man’s true ‘Self’; man’s real
identity. They are taught how to have the skills to work for others or for
themselves.
As a result, the vast majority of people are attempting to create wealth
without a clue of how it is done. There is nothing wrong with them; they are just
not equipped to achieve the goal they set for themselves. You always have to
have the right equipment.
“Knowledge of the ‘Self’ is the ‘Mother of all knowledge’. So it is incumbent
on me to know my ‘self’, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its
characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.” = Kahlil Gibran =
People are educated in external knowledge; they are not educated in the
‘Real knowledge’ of their own being. There are hundreds and thousands of
Schools, Colleges and Universities teaching every other subject except Mental
Science or Science of Mind or what we may call the Science of God for Mind is
nothing but spirit and spirit is God. It is the duty of the guardians of children to
revive the divine consciousness dormant in them.
There is a lyric in the song “Already Gone” by The Eagles which goes, “So
often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know
we have the key”. Stop and think about that for a moment. It sounds so simple,
even a bit cliché, but there is so much substance and truth to this lyric!
So many of us are simply unaware that we have exactly what we need at
all times; a personal, Universal KEY that works anytime we choose to use it – our
indwelling God. Once you become aware of the One who indwells you, at that
moment you receive "whatever" you "ask for" in His name, whatever He has
inwardly authorized you to ask as if He were the One asking. Yes! You can
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“Decree anything and it shall be established unto thee”. And it will be no miracle,
but a natural movement of the unseen into the place of manifestation.
My object of writing this book is purely out of compassion for my own
fellow men and women so as to guard them from falling prey to their weakness.
My object of writing this book is an earnest effort to help my fellow men and
women to cast away their past and begin afresh a new life, in every way.
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love
letter to the world.” = Mother Teresa =
In fact, it is the desire of God that abides in me and works in and through
me that I raise the vibration of the universal consciousness through the medium
of this book. But for my indwelling God I would not have got the inspiration to
write this book.
The gist of my book is to establish Self reliance; to bring to the attention of
man the nature of his True Self; and to cause him to see that by becoming one
with this Power he is the power in action. No more will he attempt to use this
Power, once he understands that he is the Power.
“I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him
that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of
this divinity within. That is really the ideal – conscious or unconscious – of every
religion.” = Swami Vivekananda =
It is not out of place to mention here that I have also been inspired, to
write this book, by renowned German author, Johann N Wolfgang V Goethe’s
following words:
"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute, what you can do, or dream
you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and
then the mind grows heated; Begin, and then the work will be completed."
Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavantu.
Krishnan Subrahmanyam
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HE INTRODUCTION
“Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of
knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his
work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another.” =
S,Smiles =
Faith in God, Prayer and worship, Self-realization, all this, in a sense, is
familiar to all; all this are much talked about subjects; and all that I hope to do,
through this little volume of my first book, is perhaps to throw a little more light on
these subjects in my own way, so that they become to you, my fellow brothers
and sisters, not merely traditional words but present living facts.
I do not claim to have discovered any new truth. The truth has been
known for ages but only a few have consciously used it and taken advantage of it
for the simple reason that most metaphysical literature is anything but simple.
Most of it is very confusing for those who haven’t read any book on the subject.
To point them out so simply and so clearly that everybody can understand
is my aim; to point them out so simply and so clearly that all can grasp them, that
all can take them and infuse them into their everyday life.
This small but simple book is not intended to state that your life will
miraculously change as a result of reading the ‘Principles of Life’ outlined therein.
It is only a guide, a system of practice and if the principles therein are applied
with consistency, one will definitely begin to see a shift as a result of his
awareness.
In an age filled with cheesy self-help tomes, readers will find this simple
book, written straight from the soul, quite refreshing and interesting. The book is
without any theological theories and dogmas and is a system of practice that
throws light in a clear, understandable, simple way a practical, workable
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procedure based upon the Divine Laws for the mastery of one’s environment and
conditions.
There are hundreds and thousands of self-help books and products
available, yet people are still searching for answers to their problems. The main
reason is that they have not been able to clearly see them from the same
standpoint with those who penned them or have failed to grasp the vital facts.
That is the reason why the personal-improvement or the so called self-
help industry is a multi-billion dollar industry across the whole world.
It is my endeavor to make simple to you the great underlying principles of
manifesting the hidden power within you so that you may be able to make use of
this great power and apply it for legitimate and worthy purposes.
There is no study that will so well repay to the one for the time and trouble
as this study of the workings of this mighty power within you, a power that you
have had right from the beginning you were born.
You cannot believe your oneness with God, deeply and sincerely, with full
conviction, and not receive a new source of strength and power.
I have written this book in my own way, straight from the heart, from what I
have learnt thus far. I have still miles to go further. I have written this book for
those who believe; and to those who do believe it will come true in their lives.
This book is pure and simple, written from the fullness of a spirit at peace,
written for you because it will do you good and because I could not get it off my
mind until it was written.
I shall be happy, if the general ideas benefit the readers. It contains vital
facts of life which, if followed, can help each and every one to find their real ‘self’.
It was written solely to gratify the desire to make others realize their true nature,
their real identity.
I hope, you will find the information in this book inspiring, valuable and
enlightening. How you choose to apply the message it is intending to deliver will
depend on where you are standing presently on your journey in life.
If the methods suggested in this book should help the readers clear their
mental obstacles, I shall feel that I have written to no purpose. Each one should
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stick out these suggestions for himself. Nobody can thrust an idea into the minds
of the people. He can only put it before them and what they will make of it
depends entirely upon them - assimilation is a process which no one can carry
out for us.
I am sure this simple method of scientific right thinking as conveyed
though this little book may help readers to form the habit of thinking ONLY the
thoughts they wish to see crystallized in worthy achievements.
I fervently hope that this little book will help the readers to direct their
thoughts toward a better understanding of that Spirit of God, a clearer
understanding of the relation between man and his Creator, God.
If this knowledge of the individual’s relationship with his Creator God is
imparted in all schools and colleges; if this knowledge of the individual’s ‘True
Self’ or ‘Divine Nature’ is properly taught in every school and college, it would
revolutionize the entire education system and take our country forward miles
ahead of others in years to come.
This book is actually intended for those who want results and who are
willing to take the conclusion of the Science of God as basis for action and
accept them and practice them in the same way they accept the law of electricity
and use it to their advantage, without fear or hesitation.
Anyone, who practices this system, will be able to prove the truth in the
least possible time depending upon the intensity of his faith. The Science of God,
as explained in ‘Bhagavad Gita’ is an exact science and failure is impossible. In
fact, the gist of Bhagavad Gita’s teaching is: ‘THAT THERE IS BUT ONE AND
THAT IT BECOMES TO US JUST WHAT WE FIRST BELIEVE INTO IT.’
If you are not yet where you want to be in terms of your personal success,
the problem may be the way you think about you and if you want to change your
life, you just need to change your mind. If you don't have all that you desire right
now, part of the reason is because you have a mental thought pattern that has
been continually running a recording loop in your life. Change the mental pattern
of thought and change your life.
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There is an age old saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher
appears”. Perhaps, you are ready now and that is the reason why this book is in
your hands now. The fact that the title of this book has led you to take it up
indicates that you are interested to change your life for the better. What you
couldn’t achieve in your whole life till now, you may be able to achieve them all
within a year or a month or even in one week and that depends on the faith that
you have in the power of your own thought about God. You must be willing to do
whatever it takes to make it happen.
Why not try it and find out? It certainly is worth a trial. Your progress may
be slow at first, but remember that a life time and more has made you what you
are now and immediate transformation is a little difficult, if not impossible.
But again it is in your mind and depends on what you think you are. If you
say: I was born that way. I cannot change it. Yes, probably you were, but you can
change it, unless you determine you cannot and do not try. No power whatever,
from God or man, can do anything for you when you assume that attitude.
However, if you have the invincible determination to change, then the hostile
action of the combined powers of earth cannot stop you, for you are supreme in
your own personality.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without
action. You may not always receive the results you seek each time you take
action, you may not hit your target mark, but if you never take action, you will
never learn or know what to do differently. Without action you will never find your
purpose in life, or anything else. The secret of getting ahead in life is getting
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It is all about trial and error. You crawl before you walk. As a baby, you
knew what to do, you simply started crawling then you began standing, then the
results you desired miraculously happened, you began to walk. It took time but
eventually you achieved your goal, by any means. All you need is the child
mentality; all you need now is the child simplicity; all you need now is the same
invincible determination and the burning desire to reach your goals, which you
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had when you were a child. Bring out the child in you and nothing will be
impossible unto you.
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common
hours.”
= Henry David Thoreau =
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THE DISCOVERY
“All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist; Not its semblance,
but itself.” = Browning =
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The general direction in which we all want to go is that of getting more out
of life than we have ever got out of it. We want to be more alive in ourselves and
to get all sorts of improved conditions in our environment. However happily any
of us may be positioned in life, we all expect something even better, or at any
rate we should like to make our present good permanent.
Since the prospect of increasing possibilities keeps opening out more and
more widely before us, what we are in search of is the ‘secret’ of getting ‘More’
out of life in a continually progressive degree; we are in search of a certain
creative power that can be made to work for us in order to attain our desires; in
order to get ‘More’ out of life.
However, thinking of himself as a biological creature, man believes that
what exists on the surface is all there is of man. The average person lives on the
surface. He thinks that the surface is all there is of him and consequently does
not place himself in touch with the live wire of his interior and inexhaustible
nature. He does not exercise his greater power – the power to discern what his
whole nature actually contains. Therefore he does not unlock the door to any of
his powers. These powers are dormant simply because they have not been
called into action, and they will continue to lie dormant until man develops his
greater powers – the power to discern what really exists within him.
The principal reason, therefore, why the average person does not possess
greater powers and talents, is because he is not conscious of MORE; and he is
not conscious of MORE because he has not vitally recognized the great depths
of his real life, and has not tried to consciously fathom the possibilities that are
latent within him.
Every human being is endowed with a power that lies dormant within him.
This power is in constant operation, whether man knows it or not. In fact, he is
always making use of this power unconsciously, spasmodically and feebly
affecting ever for good or ill all who surround his path of life.
We are all endowed with the same power but the majority of us are
ignorant of this power. Once you gain the knowledge of the Universal Laws, you
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can develop this power, which you are now dissipating and scattering because of
your ignorance. All men use the same power, for all in the universe there is but
‘One Power’ or ‘One Law’.
The great masses of humanity are using the power destructively. Here
and there, we find an occasional outstanding figure who has achieved greatness
and success and he is singled out as lucky or genius, when the fact of the matter
is that he has made use of this power either knowingly or un-knowingly. You
have this power from the beginning, from the time you were born on this planet.
The knowledge of this power is the simple, easy and certain way of
accomplishing any purpose in life.
There are millions of gifted, highly talented people, many blessed with rare
qualities for success and leadership whose achievements would mean so much
to their fellow-men and happiness and contentment to themselves and their
families, who do not know what the power is all about and go on striving,
straining, wasting their precious life force only to find themselves dissatisfied,
discouraged, disheartened and crushed, and find themselves failures after years
of despairing effort.
But there is a way now for all of them. If one follows diligently the laws,
one may reach any height in life. One can accomplish any worthy purpose easily
and quickly. There need be no limit to one’s possibilities. One’s success and
achievement will multiply in proportion to one’s mastery of this unfailing law and
with each success his faith in the law will grow stronger until he reaches the point
of conviction and can be invincible.
Once you know the law, you would not think of sparing any of your
precious time for worthless, idle conversations and gossip. Any personal sacrifice
is worth the price of such knowledge. This law is available to every one and no
one will find any difficulty in putting these principles into practice in their everyday
affairs. This law is no respecter of persons. It is the highest and the most
effective possible in worldly affairs and is well worth learning, for its practice
results a life that is well worth living.
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Employing these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no
uncertainty as to the outcome of any undertaking and no limit to your
possibilities. As you go on and on, your confidence will increase and you will find
that your powers are increasing. You will accomplish greater things with greater
ease and greater speed. As its growth in you increases, your accomplishments
will increase likewise. With many, remarkable improvements may come quickly.
With others, the growth may be gradual. The difference is in the degree of the
intensity employed. However, no man could ever receive these instructions and
not become a better man because of them.
It was in the beginning of the present age, the mortal world - the Age of
Kali, fifty centuries ago that Lord Krishna stated, in what has been known as
‘Gitopanishad’ - the discourse that He had with his friend-cum-devote-cum
warrior Arjuna on the battlefield - that “All the living entities are but the
fragmented parts of Him” (Ch 15 text 7 of Bhagavad Gita) and that “He sits in
everyone’s heart and it is from Him that one gets knowledge, remembrance and
forgetfulness.” (Ch 15-text 15 & Ch 18-text 61) Lord Krishna further stated that
“All the living entities are mere instruments that He uses and it is He who directs
them to carry out His pre-arranged cosmic plan.” (Ch 11-text 33:34)
Even all our Upanishads, said to have been given to us twenty centuries
before Bhagavad Gita, expressed the same truth as ‘AHAM BRAHMASMI’
meaning ‘I am Brahmn’ or ‘I am God’ or ‘I AM THAT I AM’.
We have been, thus, aware of the fact for centuries that there is ‘More’ in
man than what appears on the surface but it is only in the last one hundred and
fifty years or so that a systematic effort has been made to understand the nature
and practical use of this ‘More’ as well as to work out better methods for the
thorough and effective application of those things on the surface which we have
always applied.
It was only from the later part of the Nineteenth century that a New
Thought Movement started gathering momentum in the Western world. Many of
the Western philosophers like Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Henry David Thoreau, to name a few, were strongly influenced by our
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very own Vedas and Bhagavad Gita and much of their writings had strong
shades of non-dualism. One of the clearest examples of this can be found in
Emerson’s “The Over-soul”:
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within
man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which
every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power
in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-
sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the
seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world
piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of
which these are shining parts, is the soul.”
Emerson’s teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought
movement of the mid 1800s.
Swami Vivekananda is considered a key figure in the introduction of
Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and America and is also credited with raising
interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a world religion during
the end of the nineteenth century. Vivekananda is considered to be a major force
in the revival of Hinduism in modern India. He is best known for his inspiring
speech beginning with "Sisters and Brothers of America", through which he
introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions at Chicago in
1893.
It was Swami Vivekananda who having realized the potentiality of Infinite
Godhead inside finite human beings had prophesized that the most powerful
thought wave to come in future is the thought of Immanent God – God manifest
in human beings.
It was Swami Vivekananda who coined the slogan “Jiva is Shiva” meaning
each individual is a divinity itself and went on to exhort that “Each soul is
potentially divine. The goal (of all actions) is to manifest the divinity within.
Christs and Buddhas are but waves on the infinite ocean which I am.”
Swami Vivekananda wanted his practical Vedanta to penetrate into every
sector of India’s social life and said: “These conceptions of Vedanta must come
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out, must remain not only in forest, not only in cave, but they must come out to
work at the bar and bench, in the pulpit and the cottage of the poor man, with the
fisherman that are catching fish, and with the students that are studying. If the
fisherman thinks that he is the spirit, he will be a better fisherman, if the student
thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student, if the lawyer thinks that he is the
spirit, he will be a better lawyer.”
Man can do far more with himself and his life than he has been doing. So
much has been proven during this period with regard to developing and applying
the possibilities which we know to be inherent in us all. However, except for a few
here and there majority of the mankind has failed to grasp these vital facts.
Many of those who believe in God do not easily accept the idea of a
‘Power’ that exists inside every one. Majority of the mankind who want to get help
from God, when they are distressed or want to get their desires fulfilled, are still
of the view that God exists outside of them, separate from them and hence away
from them.
Most people understand God to mean something – some supreme power
– outside of themselves; while exactly the contrary is the fact. It is our very life.
Without It we would be dead. We would cease to exist. The minute the Spirit
leaves the body, we are as nothing. Therefore, Spirit is really, all there is of us.
Now, the only activity which the Spirit possesses is the power to think. Therefore,
thought must be creative, because Spirit is creative. This Creative Power is
impersonal and your ability to think is your ability to control It and make use of It
for the benefit of yourself and others.
Infinite Spirit or God is the Universal Mind. We are all created by It
(Bhagavad Gita Ch 9) out of itself and as such we are all nothing but ‘Spirit”.
Universal Mind created us so as to express Itself in form; It seeks to express
itself in and through us.
“That One is called ‘Prana’, the supreme force that controls and regulates
everything. He gives the power of breath to every creature, Master of all living
beings, Container of all creation, He can be known through silence, meditation
and the practice of yoga.” = Vishnu Sahasranam =
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All that a man could ever want from life is within him – pure and glittering –
as a Divine Spark within him. I am not talking about the Power of Thought.
Thought, no doubt, is spiritual and hence creative and of tremendous potency.
This is the power of the Infinite Spirit or God which is of the highest order.
This power responds to your faith on It and your demands on It. It is not
affected by your ignorant talk of hard times, though you are affected because
your thoughts and words govern your demonstration. This unfailing ‘Power’ is
always ready to give. It has no choice in the matter; It must give, for that is Its
nature. It has no alternative. It cannot help giving in order to help Itself, as
explained in later chapters.
So long you are ignorant of your real inward and essential nature, so long
you are ignorant of your relationship with God, so long you are ignorant of your
relationship with your fellow-men, so long you are ignorant of your relationship
with the world you live in, you are incapable of appropriating this mighty power.
As soon as man realizes the truth of his relationship to the Infinite, he
passes from weakness to strength. He realizes that he is nothing less than a son
of God with all the son’s privileges and powers. He realizes, in a flash, that he is
one with his Divine Source. He awakens to the fact that all the power of the
Infinite is his to draw upon, that he can never fail and that he is marching on to
victory.
It will thus be seen how great the power of thought is. While thought is not
the power of the Spirit, it is the power by which man connects himself up with the
Infinite Power, opening himself to the Divine Inflow. This, in a sense, is, “As a
man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
If he thinks he is separate from God and cut off from his ‘Power’, then it is
as though this were really the case and he is just as impotent and miserable as
though he actually existed apart from God. On the other hand if he thinks and
believes that he is one with the Infinite he finds that it is gloriously true and that
he really is the son of God.
If one believes and thinks that he is a material being then he lives the
limited life of a material being and is never able to rise above it. But if on the
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contrary he thinks and believes that he is a spiritual being then he finds that he
possesses all the powers of a spiritual being. The ‘Power’ within is infinite, for by
faith in It man is directly connected with the spiritual power of the Universe. The
‘Power’ within is inexhaustible that never runs dry. It is like having your cake and
eating it too!
Whoever you are and whatever may be your immediate need, you can
demonstrate the law. If your thoughts are confused become still and know. Be
still and know that you are one with God and with the Law of Its manifestation.
You will have a deeper, fuller and clearer meaning of your life. You will be
invincible. You will find the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect.
The understanding and use of this power is the whole object of the Mental
Science, and it is, therefore, necessary that one should clearly see the relation
between the causes and conditions.
Once you realize and recognize that you are a Divine being, you operate
according to a definite unerring law. Thus conditioned, whatever you think and
feel yourself to be, the Infinite Spirit or God is bound to faithfully reproduce in
physical form. You would thus be certain of the success of the process from the
very beginning and you would know the outcome of the undertaking even before
you start.
Reproduced hereunder in verbatim is the beautiful explanation of Ch 2 -
Text 3 of Bhagavad Gita given by Swami Vivekananda in ‘The Complete Works
of Swami Vivekananda’.
In order to remove this delusion which had overtaken Arjuna, what did the
Bhagavân say? As I always preach that you should not decry a man by calling
him a sinner, but that you should draw his attention to the Omnipotent
Power that is in him, in the same way does the Bhagavan speak to Arjuna.
“Naithathvayyupapadyate” — "It doth not befit thee!" "Thou art Atman
imperishable, beyond all evil. Having forgotten thy real nature, thou hast, by
thinking thyself a sinner, as one afflicted with bodily evils and mental grief, thou
hast made thyself so — this doth not befit thee!"
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So says the Bhagavan: “Klaibyam ma sma gamah Partha” — Yield not to
unmanliness, O son of Pritha. There is in the world neither sin nor misery, neither
disease nor grief; if there is anything in the world which can be called sin, it
is this — 'fear'; know that any work which brings out the latent power in thee is
Punya (virtue); and that which makes thy body and mind weak is, verily, sin.
Shake off this weakness, this faintheartedness!
“Klaibyam ma sma gamah Partha” — Thou art a hero, a Vira; this is
unbecoming of thee."
If you, my sons, can proclaim this message to the world — Klaibyam ma
sma gamah Partha Naithathvayyupapadyate — then all this disease, grief, sin,
and sorrow will vanish from off the face of the earth in three days.
All these ideas of weakness will be nowhere. Now it is everywhere —
this current of the vibration of fear. Reverse the current: bring in the opposite
vibration, and behold the magic transformation! Thou art omnipotent — go, go
to the mouth of the cannon, fear not.
Hate not the most abject sinner, fool; not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze
inward, where resides the Paramâtman. Proclaim to the whole world with
trumpet voice, "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art
the reservoir of Omnipotent Power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity
within!"
If one reads this one Shloka —Text 3 of Ch 2 — one gets all the merits of
reading the entire Gita; for in this one Shloka lies imbedded the whole Message
of the Gita.
In her book, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course
in Miracles", Marianne Williamson, the author, addresses the other side of that
feeling, the fear of being better than your peers, perhaps even daring to be the
best. It's a powerful message that has been inspiring people for decades with its
deeply resonating message about our fear of greatness, of standing out from the
pack:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most
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frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and
fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing
small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so
that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as
children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It
is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated
from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Proclaim emphatically: “I am one with God”.
Say with conviction: “AHAM BRAHMASMI.”
The moment you assert emphatically your oneness with God, all the
power of Omnipotent Love is instantly set into motion to rush to your rescue. And
when that power has begun to work for you, you can stop doing things, boldly
claiming “It is done; I have the desires of my heart.”
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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic
walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand
of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action...
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.”
= Rabindranath Tagore =
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THE MAKING OVER
“Mind is the Master Power that molds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and even more he takes
The tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills;
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass;
Environment is but his looking glass.”
= James Allen =
We live in an orderly Universe for “Order is Heaven’s first law.” Everything
in life is simple and easy provided we follow the Law of Life.
Unfortunately, it is man who makes things complicated not only for
himself, but for his near and dear ones as well as for the society in which he
lives. It is just like this: If we want to take a particular medicine, then we have to
follow the directions given by the Physician who prescribed it or follow the
directions written on the label. We cannot take the medicine according to our
whim and fancy. Similarly one has to live his life according to the Law of Life.
There is a law, this progression or success, and you are being deprived of
your just rights if you do not have every needful thing. It is but natural for you to
have money, friends and happiness and any other state of existence is
inharmonious and unnatural. You have the right to enjoy life, follow the
occupation you choose, do as you please so long as you do not injure anyone
either in thought or in action. This is your natural condition and nothing but the
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action of your mind can deprive you of it. It is a law; live the law and your
development is assured.
Increase is what mankind is seeking, which is quite natural and is the
fundamental Principle of the Universe. All human activities are based on the
desire for increase. People are seeking more food, more clothes, better shelter,
more luxury, more beauty, more knowledge, more pleasure--- increase in
something, more life. Every living thing is under the necessity for continuous
advancement, where increase of life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once.
Happiness is the Summum Bonum of man’s aspiration and is his rightful
heritage. The very soul of man cries out for happiness and he thinks that money
is every thing. He feels that money is a means to an end. Hence money is the
motive power which drives everyone in their quest for the ultimate which is
happiness. No doubt, in today’s world there cannot be happiness without money.
Therefore the occupation of acquiring money is a worthy and commendable one.
Why should man suffer all sorts of lack, misery and unhappiness? The
only reason for his suffering is that in search of happiness, in order to acquire
money he is always running on the wrong track, not by choice but by not knowing
what is right. The majority of people are drifters on the sea of life. Treating the
bodily existence as his real life, he tries to find pleasure and happiness entirely
through these channels even at the cost of violating the laws of his being; and
violation of the laws of his own being results in pain and suffering.
There comes a time in man’s life when he moves heaven and earth, prays
until he can pray, sacrifices his money, his health, his prospects and does
everything that is in the power of a human being in a vain attempt to stave off a
threatened disaster. He then wonders that a just and loving God could permit
such and such things. He wonders at what he terms the ‘strange, inscrutable
dispensations of the Providence’, when all is of his own making.
This suffering is necessary for the mankind to inquire about their position
as to what they are, why they are put into this awkward position. This suffering
pushes man on in his thought and through this in his life to the reality of his being
and he finds that only in conscious union with God true pleasure and
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blessedness lie. Unless one is awakened to this position of questioning his
suffering, unless he realizes that he does not want suffering but rather wants to
make a solution to all suffering, one is not considered a perfect human being.
Humanity, begins when this sort of inquiry is awakened in one’s mind.
Every activity of the human being is to be considered a failure unless he inquires
about the nature of his own being for it is then that he becomes aware of the
‘Power’ that lies dormant and hidden within him. That is how the evolution of
human life on earth takes place. It is then that he finds within him the wondrous
‘Self’, which is the real ‘Self’ which when found reveals to him all.
Man is always at life from the wrong side. He has been giving all the time
and attention to the mere physical, the material, the external, the mere outward
means of expression and the things that pertain to, thus missing the real life. The
majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there we find one even
partially awake. Practically all of us, as a result, are living lives that are unworthy,
almost the name of lives, compared to those we might be living, and that lie
within our easy grasp.
Ignorance is the root cause of all the problems; ignorance of the Laws of
Life; ignorance of the essential nature of one’s true being. Otherwise, no one will
willingly continue to live a less satisfying life if they really realize the facts of the
larger, fuller and richer life that awaits them. Until man realizes that the cause of
all his troubles is within himself he can never do anything to remedy matters.
The only thing that is required is for him to change within. He has to
become changed within before his life can be altered. His thoughts, his ideals,
his attitudes towards life must all become transformed. When this change has
been effected, he not only begins to repair his present life, but he creates a fairer
and nobler life for the future.
Man is simply weak because he has chosen weakness but when he
begins to choose power and greatness he will positively become what he has
chosen to become. The principal reason why the average person remain weak
and incompetent is found in the fact that he makes no effort to fathom and
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understand the depth of his real being. This idea is well illustrated as: “Straws
upon the surface flow; he who would seek pearls must dive below.”
Man always tries to use what is in action on the surface, but he is almost
entirely unconscious of the fact that enormous powers are in existence in the
greater depths of his life.
We all must admit that there is MORE in man than what is usually
expressed in the average person. It is wrong both to the individual and to the
race for anyone to remain in lesser when it is possible to attain the greater. It is
right that we all should ascend to the higher, the greater and the better now. And
we all can. There is enough power in any man to enable him to realize all his
desires and reach the highest good he has in view.
We all want to know what we actually possess in the physical, the mental
and the spiritual and we want to know how the elements and forces within us can
be applied in most successful manner. If only we know how to use these powers,
we could accomplish practically anything that we may have in view and not only
realize our wants to the fullest degree but also reach even our highest goal.
Man can be, become and achieve far more than even the most sanguine
indications of the present may predict. The purpose of each individual should be
not simply to cultivate and apply these possibilities that are now in evidence but
also to develop the power to discern and fathom what really exists within him.
Man is essentially a Divine being, a part of the Infinite Spirit or what we
usually call God; and thus it is that your life and mine is one with the Life of God.
By this I do not mean the mere body, but the Real Self or God that takes to Itself
the form body; and thus it is true that the life of man and the Life of God are
essentially and necessarily one and the same. They are same in kind, in quality
and in essence and the only difference simply is in degrees.
Man is the individualized expression or reflection of God; man is a
miniature reproduction of God, rather a replica of God, imaged forth and made
manifest in flesh, made manifest in human form. When God thus manifests Itself
in human form, Its inward essential nature or reality remains the same, for that is
Its inherent nature. However, having taken the human form It operates through
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the agency of the physical senses and because of this that for a time our inward
essential nature is concealed from us because of the limited comprehension of
the mankind.
Hence, when we are born into the world, we see and become aware
through and by means of the physical senses and so the natural physical world
becomes the real world for us for a certain period of time. Eventually, however,
through these very physical senses that we are able to conceive of the One and
Eternal Source of Life as our real life.
The ultimate destiny of all mankind is the Higher Life, the finding of the
Higher Self; and to this we are either led or we are pushed. We are led by
recognizing and coming into harmony with the higher laws of our being; or we are
pushed, by violating the laws, and hence through experience, through suffering,
and at times through bitter suffering, until through these very physical senses we
learn the laws and come into harmony with them.
This is the process of evolution of mankind and that is how the physical or
material being is transformed into the spiritual or Divine being, much in the same
way as in the case of kittens that are born blind, because it is simply natural for
them to be born blind, and that in the process of time their eyes open on their
own, automatically.
The core of the idea of how to get everything you want in your life has
been around for thousands of years. This method is within your power because it
is actually with you all the time, used every day but it needs fine tuning. When
you get it... when you really do get it, when you can use it properly and with a
conscious awareness of what you are doing, you will change the way that you
have gone about getting what you want from life. Each one of us has tapped into
this power without us knowing.
When a man realizes that his mind is part of the Universal Mind or God,
when he realizes that he has only to take any right aspiration to this Universal
Mind to see it realized, he loses all sense of worry and fear. He learns to
dominate instead of to cringe. He rises to meet every situation, secure in the
knowledge that everything necessary to the solution of any problem is in Mind,
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and that he has but to take his problem to the Universal Mind to have it correctly
answered.
Stored in every human being are great reserves of energy of which the
average individual knows nothing. Most people are like a man who drives a car in
low gear, not knowing that by the simple shift of a lever he can set it in high and
not merely speed up the car, but do it with far less expenditure of power.
The World Belongs to You. It is your estate. It owes you not merely a
living, but everything of good you may desire. You’ve got to demand these things
of it, though. You’ve got to fear naught, dread naught, and stop at naught.
If Universal Mind is the Creator of all, and if everything in the Universe
belongs to It, then your business, your work, isn’t really yours. The Universal
Mind is just as much interested in its success, as long as you are working in
accordance with Its plan, as you can be. The Universal Mind can do anything
good. It can bring to a successful conclusion any undertaking It may be
interested in. If Universal Mind created your business, if It inspired your work,
then It is interested in its successful conclusion for you are a special enterprise
on the part of the Universal Mind or God.
Your mind is part of the Universal Mind. And Universal Mind has all
supply. You are entitled to, and you can have, just as much of that supply as you
are able to appropriate.
You can draw from the inexhaustible Source only in accordance with the
measure of your understanding, just as you can draw water from the Ocean only
in accordance with the size of the vessel that you use. Almost everyone is
foolishly content to fill his pitcher, small as it may be, to somewhere very short of
the top.
To expect less is to get less, for it dwarfs your power of receiving. For
Universal Mind is an infinite, unlimited source of good. Not only the source of
general good, but the specific good things you desire of life. To It there is no big
or little problem. The removal of mountains is no more difficult than the feeding of
a sparrow.
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The purpose of the following pages will be to work out the subject chosen
in the most thorough and practical manner; in brief, to analyze the whole nature
of man, find all the forces in his possession and to present methods through
which all those forces can be applied in making life of each individual richer,
greater and better.
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“To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way.
And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low;
And in between on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth A high way and a low,
And every man decideth, The way his soul shall go.”
= Oxenham, John =
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“Know this: there is no power from without, yourself must answer every fear and
meet all doubt with some Divine, indwelling Power which you yourself, upon
yourself shall shower; And giving, take, and taking, give unto that life which you,
yourself, shall live.” = Ernest S. Holmes =
You've always known you were bound for greatness and you were right.
You always knew that you should be living the life of success and happiness, and
you were right. You always knew that you deserved a lot more respect and
attention than you're getting, and you were right.
You always believed in taking the road less travelled if it would bring you
to the right place at the right time. You always knew that there was more out
there than meets the eye, and you were so right. You always knew that your
dreams were important, and you were right.
Yet Success and Happiness always seem to slip through your fingers
because you've never been able to GRAB the opportunities that come your way
at the moment they present themselves to you. You let the opportunities pass
you by without your even seeing them!
You wonder what makes "successful”, "lucky" people different from you.
Why do you continue to struggle and make ends meet when you should be living
in a pretty house of your own and be free from money troubles?
You often lack in confidence to act with the necessary courage that it
takes to realize your dreams - you haven't quite understood that you are
special...
This explains the contrast between the strong potential within you and the
life you're living. Indeed, you should be living a life of success and happiness
without any worries, surrounded by sincere friends.
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But what you didn't know, perhaps, is the fact that you have within you a
Powerhouse that can help you travel in the right direction toward fulfilling all of
your dreams; that you possess an extraordinary unusual beneficial power -- in
fact, you have as much potential for Good Fortune as the most successful and
famous people on Earth!; that you can establish this crucial connection and tap
into all the power and energy and force available so that you can get the respect,
recognition, and money you deserve and the better, richer and fuller life you
always knew you should have. It is time to free your spirit and achieve your full
potential.
There’s a way for you to use all the power and energy of your inbuilt
Powerhouse that will enable you to begin receiving all of the endless things that
you have so desired but that until now have been mysteriously absent from your
life.
It will be so easy for you to discover and use the talents and abilities that
until now you didn't even know you had, and thus attract the things and
conditions you deserve as only your POWERHOUSE can. It will also help you to
be more adventurous and will in turn inspire those around you to embrace life
with the same excitement.
YOU POSSESS A FABULOUS PERSONAL POWER...
Yes, you possess an amazing Personal Power asleep within you...a power
that could be the KEY to your Lifelong Happiness!
Think carefully. No matter how impossible your problems have seemed,
no matter how often you've felt "This is the last straw...," you've always managed
to stay afloat, haven't you? You've managed to get past a good number of
stumbling blocks in your life, if you stop to think about it...
It is the glimmer of your own inner Personal Power that has given you
enough strength and creativity to conquer your obstacles! And think what you
could do if you learned to MASTER this Power...
By learning to cultivate this benevolent INNER POWERHOUSE that is
yours, you could become the captivating, powerful person you have always
dreamed of being... This Personal power within you can reveal to you those
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untapped resources within your personality -- and show you how to USE these
resources to become the true Master of your Destiny!
This Power within you works round the clock for you, whether you know it
or not. It never takes any holidays. You are always using this Power within you
knowingly or unknowingly. Once you understand this Power within you, you can
master your own desires. This Power can give you anything you want from life.
With this Power behind you, you will know exactly what you need to know
to achieve long-term success. By learning to cultivate your INNER
POWERHOUSE, you will become the captivating and powerful person you've
always dreamed of being.
You will learn to know yourself better, to master yourself, to act according
to firm and definite ideas that will allow you to influence and dominate the events
and circumstances in your life. You will draw into your life the people,
circumstances and conditions you need. You will not depend on help from
without.
In everyone's eyes you will become a captivating, influential, admired and
envied individual. Your company will be sought by everyone. Your advice will be
solicited. Nothing will be done anymore without your agreement or your opinion.
You see, by learning to develop your Inner Personal Power, a whole new world
will offer itself to you.
The truth is, right now you might not have complete access to the power
and greatness you were born with because you have yet to discover an important
piece of the puzzle and reap the benefits of one of the most potent forces of
prosperity there is. If you seize this opportunity nothing will stand between you
and your dreams. Nothing will be able to stand between you and your goals. And
nothing will be able to stand between you and your newfound sense of ‘self’.
You can make the characteristics, talents and abilities you inherited...even
stronger! You can develop new and positive ways to use your hard-working and
honest nature so that you can be the person you were born to be and have the
life you were born to live.
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It is the most powerful among the forces of the human system that we
least understand which is not unnatural for all advancement is in the ascending
scale.
This power is the greatest power because it prepares the way for
attainment and expression of all other powers. It is the power that unlocks the
door of all powers and must be understood and applied before anything of
greater value can be accomplished through human thought and action.
In order to tap your inbuilt Powerhouse and make it work for you, you
need to know as to who exactly you are, where you have come from and what
the purpose of your life is. Before you can realize your dreams, before you can
use your Inner Power, you must have a clear conception of your relationship with
your CREATOR GOD, with your fellow-men and with the world you live in. We
must know what we are before we can know and use what we inherently
possess. Then only we can control and direct the forces we possess.
In order to make your INNER GUIDE work for you, you must be aware of
the most potent laws that govern us all but hidden behind this inbuilt
POWERHOUSE. There are Universal Spiritual Laws and Forces that work for
anyone who uses them. It is not that these Spiritual Laws and Forces do not work
for some of the people some of the time but they work invariably all the time for
anyone.
However, you need to use these laws and forces with utmost control. You
use them right and the benefit goes directly to you. You misuse or abuse them
and the consequences can even be disastrous. Our lives, fortunes and
happiness are in our own hands to mold as we will – provided we first obey the
law and learn how to make conscious use of it.
Once you understand as to how to apply these laws correctly in your daily
life, you are on your way to living an entirely different life – a life that is full of
greatness and fulfillment. By studying and understanding these laws deeply you
can take your own understanding of life into the next level.
We all hold the ‘Master Key’ within ourselves, with which to unlock the
secret chamber containing our heart’s desires. All that is necessary in order that
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we may use this key and make our life exactly what we wish it to be, is a careful
inquiry into the unseen causes which stand back of every external and visible
condition and then bring these unseen causes into harmony with our conception,
and we will find that we can make practical working realities of possibilities which
at present seem but fantastic dreams.
God made man for the special purpose of differentiating Himself.
Everything that is, came into existence in the same way, by the same law of self-
differentiation, and for the same purpose. The great Architect of the Universe
contemplated Himself as manifesting through His polar opposite, matter, and the
idea expanded and projected itself until we have a world - many worlds.
If we can get an idea of the different stages by which things in the world
have come to be; if we can get at the working principle which is producing these
results, we can very quickly and easily give it a personal application.
The Universal Mind or the Infinite Spirit or what we usually call God is the
Creative Intelligence of the Universe; the First Cause of all causes; the Law from
which all subsequent laws proceed, and It is not subject to them.
God is the Omnipresent Directive Principle. God is responsible for
everything that exists. It directs the creation and function of all things; therefore,
things that exist must be expressions of God. It directs the creation and function
of every one of the millions of cells in our bodies. It makes us what we are and
gives us life.
God is Omnipresent. It is all pervading, existing throughout all space and
all manifestation. God is Omniscient; It knows Itself, and there is nothing existing
outside of It. It, therefore, knows all there is to know. God is Omnipotent; there is
nothing outside of It to act upon It.
God is the only Power all there is. It is Infinite since there is nothing to
define or limit its boundaries. God is the Creator and the Ruler of the Universe.
God is all there is. (Bhagavad Gita- chapter 9)
When we breathe we inhale It; when we think we mold It; when we speak
we proclaim It; as we live we direct Its flow; when we love we share It; when we
pray we commune with It; and when we keep silent we hear It speak to us.
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The Modus Operandi of the creative process of God:
The Infinite Spirit or God, by self-contemplation awakens to its own ability
and recognizes that It is the source of all things.
The Infinite Spirit or God then wants to enjoy the reality of Its own life and
so by thinking of Itself as having the enjoyment which It wishes, It projects a polar
opposite or a complimentary or what we call ‘Ether’ and produces a condition,
which, by their reaction upon Itself gives rise to the reality of the sort of
enjoyment contemplated. This way the creative process goes on and on ad
infinitum.
In simple terms, God creates by self-contemplation. Therefore what It
contemplates Itself being, that It becomes.
God is All Life. Then because It is Life, It must be Love, because the pure
motive of giving greater enjoyment of Life is Love. Then because It is Love, It
must be Light.
Then from this proceeds Power, because Life urged by Love or the desire
for recognition, and by Light or the pure perception of the law of infinite
possibilities, must necessarily produce Power for the simple reason that under
these conditions It could not stop short of action for that would be the denial of
Life, Love and Light which It is.
Then because God is Life, Love, Light and Power, It is also Peace, again
for a very simple reason that being the Spirit of the Whole, It cannot set one part
in antagonism against another, for that would destroy the wholeness.
Next God must be Beauty, because on the same principle of wholeness It
must duly proportion every part to every other part, and the due proportioning of
all parts is Beauty.
Lastly, God must be Joy, because working on these lines It cannot do
otherwise than find pleasure in the self expression which Its works afford It.
There is only one God or All Originating Spirit that pervades the entire
universe. Hence Harmony or Unity or Order is the first law of the universe else
there would be chaos every where.
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Whatever God conceives, It produces a form in correspondence to Its self-
contemplation and recognition of Its own being. Since God’s conception of
anything necessarily makes that thing exist, it is logically impossible for It to
conceive a lie or a thing non existent. Therefore God is Truth.
Similarly disease and death are negatives of life and therefore, God, as
the Principle of Life, cannot embody disease or death in Its self-contemplation.
In a nutshell, God is the All Originating Infinite Spirit pervading the entire
universe so that He is All and All is He. God is the Universal Mind. God
contemplates and recognizes His own aliveness; realizes the awareness of His
own being. A desire then arises in His Mind to enjoy the reality of His aliveness.
So, animated by Love, acting on His own volition and thinking of Himself as
already having the enjoyment which He desires, God projects Himself into
existence and assumes the various forms that we see all around us, including
ourselves.
But, by the act of projecting Himself into existence and assuming the
forms that He has imagined in His Mind, God does not change His real inward
essential nature which is Absolute Truth, All Life, All Love, All Light, All Power, All
Peace, All Beauty, All Joy, All Knowing, All Seeing, All Doing and All Having.
Thus, you and I are all individualized spirit of God; individualized
expression or reflection of God as imagined by Him in His Mind but made
manifest and housed in flesh, bodily form. Each individual, you and I, a vital part
of God and by virtue of being a part of the Great Whole (God), we are identical in
nature, in characteristics and possess all the attributes of God just as a drop of
water taken from the ocean is identical with the ocean itself. The only difference
between God and us is in degree and scale.
Hence, each one of us is one with the Eternal God, who is not separate
from us and Himself dwelling within us as our life giving force and each one of us
is one with each other. God, therefore, is the life of our life and the Life of God is
in us.
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God is Spirit, creating, manifesting and ruling the entire universe through
the agency of great spiritual laws and forces such as Truth, Life, Love, Light,
Power, Peace, Beauty and Joy and surround us on every side.
The same spiritual laws and forces operate within us and these same
spiritual laws and forces govern every act of ours; these same spiritual laws and
forces constitute the law of our beings. These same spiritual laws and forces
constitute the Universal Principles of Humanity that we have to adhere to for our
further evolution in life.
This then is the ‘Truth’ of our own beings that makes us free. This then is
the ‘Mother of All Knowledge’ that we have to grasp. It is only by gaining this
‘Knowledge’ and applying it in our daily affairs of life that we are able to take on
the God-powers within us and realize our innate possibilities for our own benefit
as well as for the benefit of the whole mankind.
For too long people have been judging material results according to their
own interpretation of the source of that perceived. This has resulted in a belief of
the separation of God and man, and has caused untold misery to mankind. We
have evolved now to a consciousness that allows us to see that all things are
made from one substance Infinite Spirit, which we call God. We must then realize
that God and man are one always and that man is given the privilege of
expressing God according to his or her individual understanding.
To know the relationship between God and man makes all the difference
in the world to each one of us. To understand the principle of self-conscious life
and living allows us to use our God given creative powers. Since we are made in
the image and likeness of Infinite Spirit, God, we create through the same
principle as God, this Infinite Spirit, and under the same law of cause and effect.
If one follows the law, comply with its nature and consistently apply himself to
right thinking and living, he will prove to himself that life holds all and more than
he has ever imagined.
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“Let each man think himself an act of God,
his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
And let each try by great thoughts and good deeds
to show the most of heaven he hath in him.”
= Philip James Bailey =
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THE SCIENCE OF THOUGHT
“That a man can change himself, improve himself, recreate himself, control his
environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is
wide awake to the power of right thought in constructive action.” = Larsen =
It’s natural for human beings to set out in search of Truth because of the
material rewards. It may be that most people first turn to God because of some
weakness, some failure, or some unbearable need in their lives. After trying
everything else in vain, they turn in desperation to God.
Even the most depraved human being (though he wouldn’t admit it)
instinctively feels that, somewhere, there is a power that can give him just what
he wants; that if he could only reach that power, he could prevail upon it to grant
the things he desired. This feeling is itself, God-given. It is the Divine Self - a tiny
spark at the center of his being - suggesting the true remedy for all his ills.
Everyone wants to be free - free as the birds of the air; free of all suffering;
free from bondage; free from poverty; free from all forms of distress. And we
have a right to be; it is a God-given desire, and a God-given right.
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Every person wants to become all that they are capable of becoming. This
desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we can’t help
wanting to be all that we can be for success in life is becoming what you want to
be.
“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is
the only creed of life.” = Robert Louis Stevenson =
There is nothing wrong in wanting to be abundant. The desire for
abundance is really the desire for a richer and fuller life. God created the world
because a great desire arose in Him – a desire to create, to manifest, a desire to
make many from one, to expand. God is thus not separate from desire. Desire
means longing, a great longing, to expand to become as huge as the sky.
Vedanta Sutra or Brahma Sutra describes God by saying ‘ANANDA-
MAYO-BHYASAT’ which literally means that God is by nature full of Joy and to
enjoy His transcendental bliss, He expands and manifests all that exists in the
Universe by becoming the things that He manifests.
What must be God in Itself? There is no doubt that It is creative.
Otherwise, nothing could come into existence. Hence Its purpose is to bring
individual lives into existence and to surround them with a suitable environment.
Now a power which has this for its inherent nature must be a kindly power. God
seeking expression in individual lives can have no other intention towards them
than that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
And you are a part of God with the same attributes. Therefore, please note
that desire comes down to us from our Higher Self. It is the Divinity or God within
that is urging us to do more, to be more, to have more, to realize more of our
potential, and to raise ourselves up in consciousness.
The mighty Oak tree grows from tiny acorn because the tree is the acorn,
and the acorn is the tree. It is the ‘life giving force’ within the acorn, I mean God,
which gives the acorn an Oak tree consciousness.
There’s already great abundance to supply every human want: there’s a
supply of good for every demand. God, the creative cause of all things, is Spirit.
God is the sum total of all good. There is no good that you can desire in your life
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that is not God. God is the substance - the real essence - within every visible
form of good. God, the invisible substance out of which all things are formed is all
around us waiting to come forth into manifestation. God is unlimited; therefore
this good substance all around us is unlimited, and is the supply of every need
that exists in the visible, material world.
What everyone desires is to have only good in our lives and surroundings.
We all want to live lives full of love, to be perfectly healthy, to know all things, to
have great power and much joy, and this is just exactly what God wants us to
have. All good, of whatever kind, is God made visible. When we crave more of
any good thing, we are in reality craving more of God to come forth into our lives.
And though unawakened minds may think they want more money or more goods,
what we all truly crave is more of good – God - for all good is God.
Before you are even aware of any lack, any desire for more happiness or
fullness of joy, the Infinite Spirit or God dwelling in your heart has desired them
for you. God in you desiring them is what you feel desiring them, even though
you think it’s only you, separate from God. Someone has said, "Desire is not
something to be worked for, but is the thing in its incipiency pressing towards us
for expression." In other words, it’s the thing itself coming in your direction that
sparked your awareness of it and called forth your desire.
The only way God has to let us know about the infinite supply available to
us and Its desire to make it ours is to push gently on the divine spark - the “I AM”
- that is the center of each of us. God wants you to be a strong, self-sufficient
man or woman, to have more power and dominion over the world around you. So
quietly, silently, God pushes a little more divine desire into the center of your
being. God enlarges, so to speak, your real self, and at once you become aware
of a new desire to be grander, stronger, more capable.
Without God pushing at the center of your being, you would never have
thought of new desires, but would have remained content as you were. You think
you want better health, more love, a brighter, more cheerful home all your very
own: in short, you want more good in your life. This is only God pushing at the
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inner door of your being, as if saying: “My child let me in; I want to give you all
good, so you can be comfortable and happy.”
Remember this: Desire in the heart for anything is God’s sure promise
sent beforehand that it is yours already in the realm of supply, and whatever you
desire, you can have for the taking. All is yours, and you know that all you have
to do is to reach out your mental hand and take it. Our desires always are God’s
desires, but till now, in a limited way. As we see that more of God means more of
good and joy and happiness, we soon throw aside those limitations.
God wants you to know that you should never be content with so little
when you can reach out for the whole Universe. It is essential, however, that your
purpose should be in perfect harmony with the governing Principles of Life; for
your own benefit and for the benefit of others and not for hoarding or for personal
aggrandizement.
No good thing shall be withheld from those who live in harmony with the
higher laws and forces. There are no desires that shall not be satisfied to the one
who knows and who wisely uses the powers with which he is endowed with. One
can rise to any heaven one chooses; and when a person chooses so to rise, all
the higher powers of the Universe combine to help him heavenward.
“When you really want something, the entire Universe will conspire to fulfill
your desire.” = Paulo Coelho =
The desire for money is not really the desire for money, it is the desire to
expand; it is the desire for increase of life; it is the desire for aliveness. It is the
desire to be more, to have more and to do more. The same is the case with all
other desires. People want more power, more fame, longer life, better health but
these are all the effects; these are all the conditions. Thoughts are causes and
conditions are effects. Be interested only in causes rather than the effects.
Money, power and wealth are mere symbols and are not the reality. Know
that it is God that works in and through you. Whatever God desires, he manifests
them. You are a part of God with the same attributes. Whatever you desire, you
can manifest them in your physical reality in the same way.
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“Man is made out of and from spirit and as effect must partake of the
nature of its cause, so man must partake of the Divine nature from which he
springs. Man re-enacts the nature of God. The whole scheme of life and the
whole nature of the Divine Being is re-enacted through man.” = Ernest S. Holmes
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Always remember that you are a part of God, the Creator and that the
Creator could create nothing different from Himself and so you have the same
characteristics of God and hence you have within you the same God power and
God potential, varying only in degrees. Whatever is true of God as a Whole must
also be true of the individual as some part of the Whole. Man is evolved from
God and is a self-conscious, thinking center of the living Spirit and as such he
must in his nature and being reproduce God.
The Infinite Spirit or God, in order to do something for us must do that
thing through us and what It is to do must become a part of our mentality before it
can become our individual expression. Our mentalities are but God working
through us as individuals.
There is always a cry to ‘Have’ but never the cry to ‘Be’. Success,
Happiness, Power, Health and Wealth are all states of consciousness and do not
depend upon the possession of things. Things and conditions are effects and
come as a consequence of correct mental states so that if we desire material
possession of any kind our chief concern should be to acquire the mental attitude
which will bring about the result desired.
This mental attitude is brought about by a realization of our spiritual nature
and our unity with God which is the substance of all things. This realization will
bring about everything which is necessary for our complete enjoyment.
This is scientific correct thinking; this is the Science of Thought. When we
succeed in bringing about this sort of mental attitude it is comparatively easy to
realize our desire as an already accomplished fact; when we can do this we shall
have found the ‘Truth’ which makes us ‘free’ from every lack or limitation of
anything.
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Jesus said: “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye
receive them.” What things soever! That is, it makes no difference for what you
ask; if you will believe, you shall receive. But if you are doubting in your heart as
to whether God is willing you should receive, then indeed you will not receive.
Have no doubt in your mind of God’s willingness to give you any good thing that
you would give yourself.
You can have anything you really desire, whether it is a peanut or a planet
so long you don’t destroy the independence of others; so long you don’t desire
anything that belongs to others. Well, you can; the thing you want is among the
possibilities for you or you would not want it. Desire is implanted in you by God
that intends you to have what that desire calls for.
Desire is meant to be fulfilled- consuming, supreme desire, not the
occasional little wishes that do not even last over night or past mealtime. Your
real desire becomes the great purpose of your life; and it matters not what that
purpose is, you are going to get a reward commensurate with your single-
heartedness. Remember, your desire is implanted in your heart by God and God
will grant the desire--has already granted it--because God is the only power there
is in the Universe.
And since God has put the desire in you, you will get the thing you desire
and no man or woman on earth can prevent it. Remember that you are one of
God, one by God, one for God and one with God. You are working for God, not
man. God is the one to whom you go for anything, for whom you labor, from
whom you receive your reward. You cannot help it; that is the way it is. It is so,
whether you believe it or not, whether you know it or not, whether you like it or
not for God only is the source, means and supply of all the desires in your heart.
There is but One Mind, God. It is this One Mind that creates for us,
whatever we believe. Our thought operative through this One Mind produces all
our affairs. We are all centers in this One Mind, centers of creative thought
activity. There is nothing which appears in the manifest Universe other than an
objectified thought. It could not be there were it not made out of this One Mind.
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Whatever is made is made out of It. Nothing exists or can exist without a source
from which it springs.
For the sake of clearness, think of yourself as in this Mind, think of
yourself as a center in It. That is your principle. You think, and Mind produces the
thing. One of the big points to remember is that we do not have to create; all that
we have to do is to think. Mind, the only Mind that there is, which is God, creates.
Few people seem to understand the nature of the law and so think that
they have got to do something, even if it is only holding a thought; thinking or
knowing is what does the thing. It will make it much easier for us when we realize
that we do not have to make anything, just to know; that there is something back
of the knowing which does the work for us.
That person gets the best result who realizes that he can use this Divine
Principle; he who can get the clearest concept of his idea, and who can rely on
Mind, the Mind of God, to do for him, keeping everything out of his thought that
would contradict the supremacy of Spirit or Mind or God.
NEVER get away from the fact that you are surrounded by such a ‘Power’.
It knows every thought. As we send forth our thought into It, It does unto us. The
person who is ignorant of this law must by that ignorance be bound by his
thought, by his human beliefs.
One who understands will begin to break these ties that bind him; one by
one he will destroy every negative thought until at last he is able to think what he
wants to think; and so he frees himself by the use of the same power that at one
time bound him. We must destroy all thoughts that we would not see manifest
and hold to that which we would see, until we receive the affirmative answer.
All Mind is right here. It is God's Mind, God's creative Power, and God’s
creative Life. We have as much of this Power to use in our daily life as we can
believe in and embody. The store house of nature is filled with infinite good
awaiting the touch of our awakened thought to spring forth into manifestation in
our life; but the awakening must be on our part and not on the side of God.
The Spirit, or Life, or God, must make things out of Himself through self-
recognition, or self-knowing or, as we would call it thinking. Since God is all,
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there is nothing to hinder Him from doing what He wishes, and the question,
"How do things come into being?" is answered: God makes them out of Himself.
God thinks, or knows, and that thing which He thinks or knows appears from
Himself, and is made out of Himself. Therefore it follows that since we, too, are
made out of God we must partake of His nature, for we are "made in His image".
If we have the same power in our individual lives that God has in the
Universal, then this discovery will mean freedom from all bondage when we learn
how to use our God power. As God governs His Universal world so will man
govern his individual world, always subject to the greater law and life. This could
not be otherwise if we realize what follows from it, for so realizing we find
ourselves living in a very different world from the one in which we thought we
were living.
God governs not through physical law as result, but first by inner
knowing--then the physical follows. In the same way, man governs his world by
the process which we will call, the power of his thought.
We know the law of abundant supply, and the truth that supply always
precedes the demand (demand simply being the call that makes the supply
visible). We must know that the desire in our heart for any good is really God’s
desire for us. Now the question becomes: how shall we obtain the fulfillment of
our desires, quickly and effectively?
Thank God that you have (not will have) the desires of your heart,
remembering always that the desire is the thing itself in incipiency. For, if the
good you desire were not already yours, you could never, by any possibility,
desire it. Our Desire is God’s desire for us. We don’t need to be anxious or in a
hurry for the experience. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that our desire, great as it
is, truly is God’s desire for us.
Know that you are not seeking God; God is seeking you. Your longing for
greater manifestation is the Eternal Energy that holds the planets in their orbits
moving in and through you to experience Itself more fully. You need not worry.
You need not strive. You only need to let It work. There is, right now, an unlimited
supply of all good, held in the unseen for every human being. In spite of any
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evidence to the contrary, no one must have less so another may have more.
Your very own good is waiting for you, and your understanding faith is the power
that brings it to you.
“The man who knows this law is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart
of Being . . . He believes that he cannot escape from his good.” = Emerson =
Whatever we find that we need in life, physically, mentally or spiritually, we
affirm that God is now giving us all these things. And this is absolutely true. God
is closer than breathing; therefore knows what we need every hour, and supplies
every need at once, whatever that need may be.
In the exact proportion that you believe yourself to be part of the Universal
Mind, sharing in its all-power, in that proportion can you demonstrate the mastery
over your own body and over the world about you. All growth, all supply is from
the world-within. If you would have power, if you would have wealth, you have
but to image it on this world within, on your Inner-self, through belief and
understanding.
Look as though you have already succeeded. Shakespeare expresses the
same thought in another way—”Assume a virtue if you have it not. Look the part.
Dress the part. Act the part. Be successful in your own thought first. It won’t be
long before you will be successful before the world as well.”
Consciousness is the way or door through which things appear. The
awareness of being is the way through which the thing shall come. The signs
always follow. They never precede. Things have no reality other than in
consciousness. Therefore, get the consciousness first and the thing is compelled
to appear. Get first the consciousness of the things that you are seeking and
leave the things alone.
It is impossible for the poor man to find wealth in this world no matter how
he is surrounded with it until he first claims himself to be wealthy. For signs
follow, they do not precede. To constantly kick and complain against the
limitations of poverty while remaining poor in consciousness is to play the fool’s
game.
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It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us.
Whatever may be your desire, whatever you want to see manifested in your
physical reality thank God for having supplied that thing to you. If we would draw
to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and
harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
We must faithfully and persistently deny the appearance of that which
seems to be inharmonious and silently and faithfully affirm the peace, love, and
harmony that we want to see manifested. That which we hold in consciousness
will be made manifest for us, therefore we should not hold the thought of
anything that we do not want to see appear.
If we build a house or structure of any kind, the plan of the house or
structure is first completed, then the builder, step by step, is guided by the plan to
its completion. Similarly, every man who accomplishes things sees first in his
mind what he wishes to do. Yes, we build in thought the conditions that will later
come into manifestation on the physical plane. You have to believe that the thing
you desire to have is actually in existence just as you believe that the picture you
took is on the film, even though you cannot see it before it is developed.
It is essential that you BELIEVE that the consciousness you are trying to
bring out actually and literally exists, before it is humanly possible for the
materialization of it to take place. You have to cast away all your doubt. It makes
no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be. Nothing
can in any way impede or defeat you.
Faith is the highest expression of belief or confidence. It is that something
in man which says: "I believe in the possibilities of things that I cannot see. I
believe in the possibility of Divine Mind doing in this age, right now, everything
that was ever done in any age." When we believe this and hold to it, putting aside
all doubt and whatever suggests failure, the thoughts of faith begin to accumulate
substance, and fulfillment follows.
When the disciples of Jesus asked, “What must we do that we may work
the works of God?” all the reply that Jesus gave was, “Believe,” and this was the
substance of all his instruction. Set your thoughts in a certain direction; make
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your mind to hold thoughts that believe in the Good as possible. That is all that is
necessary for us to do to increase our belief, to extend the boundaries of what
we believe to be possible.
All that we are now is the result of our believing; every action and word
shows forth what we have believed, and are now holding in mind. When you lie
down at night you believe you will arise in the morning; when you walk, every
step you take; you do so ‘through the exercise of faith, believing that you will be
supported: so all things that you do are simply pictures of your faith, or what you
are believing in.
Your powers of believing are exercised in three ways: by thinking, by
speaking, by doing. Thought is the causative power, words and deeds are the
fruit of your thinking. Keep the thoughts upon believing in the Good, and your
words and deeds will conform to your thoughts. These should be one and the
same always. It is not enough to think aright, but also we must speak aright, and
act aright. When you are trying to believe in the reality of the presence of your
desire, do not let the lips speak as though there were any other presence than
Good. See that all your words and deeds are consistent with your thoughts.
We are not to be concerned about the outcome, knowing that a rubber ball
thrown against a stone wall will return without any effort on our part. Don’t be
anxious or concerned as to results. They will follow just as surely as day follows
night. Knowing Divine Law and acting according to it, we can rest forever from all
anxiety, all fear. You are working with a spiritual law as firm as the laws of
geometry, and you cannot fail.
There should be no personal effort to do and to be from you. You do not
have to do anything, for it is done unto you of a ‘Power’ that knows Itself to be all
there is. You need not struggle to accomplish anything. Your indwelling God is
responsible and you just let It accomplish the thing for you whatever you desire
may be because it is God abiding in you that works in and through you.
Never struggle, God makes things out of Itself by becoming the thing that
It desires or thinks about, there is no effort made. Don't think that there is so
much to be overcome. Have only a calm sense of perfect peace as you realize
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that God is all, and that you are using the perfect law and that nothing can hinder
God from working for you.
“Doing is secondary to Being. When we live consciously in the ‘Truth’, it
will radiate from us and accomplish its works without our ever running to and fro.”
= H. Emilie Cady =
All the good that is to be manifest in a man’s life is already an
accomplished fact in the Divine Mind. It lies with man to call into manifestation
that which already is an absolute and established creation in God. Man is the
image and likeness of God; therefore he is spiritual and perfect. He, in his true
being, works after the same manner as God. The man who seeks no will but the
Will of the Great God of all can declare concerning any of his desires “It is done,”
and his words will come true, for his will is Omnipotent.
In this way, conditions are produced and we find that our lives are simply
the reflection of our predominant thoughts, our mental attitude. Nothing can stand
in the way of your perfect success when you learn to apply the scientifically
correct thought methods and principles. You are merely externalizing in your
environment your inherent soul potencies.
Within each one lies the cause of whatever comes to them. Each has it in
their own hands to determine what comes. Everything in the visible, material
world has its origin in the unseen, the spiritual, the thought world. This is the
world of effect. The nature of the effect is always in accordance with the nature of
cause.
What one lives in their thought world, in the invisible, is continually
actualizing in the visible, material world. If you want to change the condition you
have to change the cause. Whatever cannot be done in the physical, material
world can be done in the spiritual world.
“According to your faith and works be it unto you.”
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“The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequence eternal, and yet
few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but
instead leave all to chance.” = Marden =
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THE AWAKENING
“Till the ‘Divinity’ within is awakened no book will help you;
Once it is awakened you do not need any books.”
= Swami Vivekananda =
Nothing else will ever make you master of your own destiny. There is in
your own indwelling God all the life and health, all the strength and peace and
joy, all the wisdom and support that you can ever need or desire. No one can
give to you as can this indwelling God. It is the spring of all joy and comfort and
power.
Hitherto we have believed that we were helped and comforted by others,
that we received joy from outside circumstances and surroundings; but it is not
so. All joy and strength and good spring up from a fountain within one's own
being; and if we only knew this truth we should know that, because God in us is
the fountain out of which springs all our good, nothing that anyone does or says,
or fails to do or say, can take away our joy and good.
We are called "Partakers of the Divine nature." It is impossible for you to
do the things that you cannot do as long as you remain in your natural human
consciousness, limited by the five senses and three dimensions. It is possible to
accomplish all things when you recognize that through being joined as one with
your ‘Inner-self’ you have become one with Divinity – the God within you.
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Infinite strength springs from the ‘Self’ within. The ‘Self’ within is limitless
in power and numberless in possibilities and we may well wonder what man will
become when he learns to use this ‘Inexhaustible’ power. What man might make
of himself if he would apply these powers to his own development and
advancement?
“Do you known how much energy, how many powers, how many forces
are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in
man? Millions of years have passed since man first came here, and yet but one
infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say
that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that
degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For
behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.” = Swami
Vivekananda =
This ‘Inner Being’, this ‘Inner Intelligence’, this ‘Inner Energy’ guides us in
our path. It is our inheritance and is well and truly our very own ‘Success
Mechanism’. We should establish permanent connection of our thoughts with this
‘Success Mechanism’.
The ‘Great’ within is the live wire. When the mind touches the ‘Great’
within, it becomes charged more and more with those same immense powers
and the mind will constantly be in touch with the ‘Great’ within when it lives,
thinks and works in the firm conviction that ‘there is more of me’ – so much more
that it cannot be measured.
We can receive from this Deeper Life only that which we constantly
recognize and constantly realize, because consciousness is the door between
the outer life and the ‘Great’ within. And we open the door to those things only of
which we become conscious.
The ability to receive and manifest this INNER POWER depends upon the
ability to recognize the Infinite Spirit or God ever dwelling in man, constantly
creating and recreating his body and mind, and ready at any moment to manifest
through him in any needful manner. In exact proportion to the recognition of this
‘Truth’ will be the manifestation in the outer life of the individual.
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One who learns that power comes from within, that he is weak only
because he has depended on help from outside, and who unhesitatingly throws
himself on his own thought about ‘God’, instantly corrects himself, stands tall,
assumes a dominant attitude, and works miracles. Men and things respond to
him without any apparent effort on his part. He becomes irresistible and
unstoppable.
In Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna advised His friend-cum-devotee-cum
mighty warrior Arjuna to direct all his energies towards the one supreme goal of
life – the manifestation of the Infinite Spirit within him through the path of
Knowledge, Devotion, Unselfish Action and Meditation.
“The infinite power of the Spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves
material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and
made to act upon Itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then
help other to be Gods. "Be and Make." Let this be our motto.... Manifest the
divinity within you, and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it.” =
Swami Vivekananda =
There are four ways to manifest this INFINITE POWER within us.
1. KNOWLEDGE
If life is worth living, it is worth living powerfully. Those who seek greater
power are seeking greater life. Those who do not seek to become powerful are
not seeking life. It takes power to be prosperous, it takes power to be healthy and
it takes power to be free. Power is a must for anything to be created, and the first
priority of anyone who wishes to experience good is to become powerful. The
key to power is knowledge. Knowledge is of priceless value, because by applying
knowledge we can make our future what we wish to be. When we realize that our
present character, our present environment, our present ability, our present
condition are all the result of past methods of thinking, we shall begin to have
some conception of the value of knowledge.
Knowledge of matter, spirit and controller of both is more important than
bookish knowledge which is nothing but intellectual formularies. No mundane
book can give this knowledge. One may study in all the best schools in the
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country and in the best Colleges or Universities. One may study until he exhausts
all those and then seek the best in other lands. One may study until his hair
begins to change its colour but this of itself will never make him a great man until
man realizes that he is ‘Spirit’.
Knowledge gaining and consequent power is what determines growth and
evolution. The recognition and demonstration of knowledge is what constitutes
power, and this power is spiritual power and this spiritual power is the mightiest
force in existence which lies at the heart of all beings; it is the Soul of the
Universe.
An insight into the absolute unity of the human existence with the Divine is
certainly the profoundest knowledge that man can attain. “Man, Know Thyself” is
a mighty precept. This is a worthy pursuit, for as we study the laws of our own
being, we gain insight into the higher Laws of the Universe. Self-realization
means understanding God and one’s eternal relationship with Him. Our aim or
purpose of life is realization of this Absolute Truth.
Bhagavad Gita says that ‘This knowledge of the ancient science of the
relationship of mankind with the Supreme Being - The Absolute Truth, The
Source of all knowledge and the First Cause of all causes – is the King of
Knowledge and that once this knowledge becomes known, when the cause of all
causes becomes known then everything knowable becomes known and nothing
becomes unknown.’
The Vedas (Mundaka Upanishad) exhorts that “Brahma Vidyam Sarva
Pratistham”. It means that the Science of Brahmn or the Science of God is the
basis of all sciences.
Chandogya Upanishad says: “A man of self-realization verily becomes a
King amongst men and everywhere he moves freely without any resistance.”
There is only one Universal Mind which is God and that Mind permeates
through all consciousness. There is only one Universal Spirit which is God and
that Spirit permeates through all expression. There is only one Universal Life
which is God and that Life permeates throughout the Universe energizing and
animating all. Hence, God is the origin of all that is and it is the same Divine
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nature that lives deep within each one of us. It is God expressing Itself in and
through each one of us. We are all the individualized expressions of the only
power all there is which is God much in the same way there are no two ocean
waves exactly alike, yet they are each expressions of the same ocean.
God cannot be separated from Itself, and so wherever It exists, It exists in
its entirety. When we eat a slice of cake, no matter where we slice it, we are
eating the entire composition of the cake. So, wherever we are, there God is in
all His completeness. We are, as such, whole, complete and perfect, expressing
all of the attributes of God, Himself dwelling within us as our life giving force. This
is the ‘Truth’ of our own being that makes us free from any lack or limitation of
anything; This ‘Truth’ of our own being is the ‘Mother of All Knowledge’ and when
this is known then there is nothing else to be known.
We need only to recognize the existence of this Divinity within us and
claim It as our true ‘Self’. Wherever we are, we have all of God at our disposal
and we can consciously use this wonderful ‘Power’ only to the degree that we
understand our relationship to It. We also have to remember that it is God that
works in and through us to provide for our every need and He does so by
sending us Divine ideas that if accepted and acted upon will serve to restore our
health, harmonize our relationships, care for our loved ones and lift our spirits.
But mere knowledge is of no value unless it is applied by one in his
everyday life. Unless we put this knowledge to work in our lives such knowledge
becomes merely an intellectual exercise. Use must be the final test of everything
we have. Unless you apply the knowledge it is just a dead theory. You have to
make the application of the knowledge in your everyday affairs; it is in application
alone that the value consists.
There is a clear distinction between the letter of the law and the spirit of
the law. By following the letter of the law, we seek only an outward manifestation
of the perfection which the law represents. However, by following the spirit of the
law, we seek perfection in consciousness. This will effect a true and lasting
demonstration of perfection. When you have embodied the Spiritual Self to the
point at which your mind accepts it, when you have convinced yourself that you
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are a part of God, you can then speak with authority because It is the God-self
speaking through you.
This is why it is necessary to redirect our thinking towards the Truth of our
being, and only allow images of plenty, wholeness, peace and harmony into our
consciousness. These attitudes we hold of ourselves are of utmost importance
because they constitute the law of our being. Whosoever has the ability to absorb
the knowledge of their own being, like the sponge that absorbs water, and live
continually in the thought about their true essential nature, they can rise in life
like the cork in water.
The lotus flower starts as a small bud down at the bottom of a pond in the
mud and the muck. It slowly grows up towards the surface of the water
continually moving towards the light. Once it hits the surface of the water, it
begins to blossom and turn into a beautiful flower. Similarly, like the bud of a
lotus, any one can blossom to his full potential and receive all the abundance that
rightfully belongs to him, when he lives his life consciously with this ‘knowledge’
of his own being.
There is only One Being and that is God. You are not a separate being
from God. Unity is God's only Law. You may have a different personality or
individuality from the Supreme Personality, but you're of the same substance.
When you realize your unity, you have dominion. All power comes from God. No
being has a power that is separate from God. Every being uses the power that
comes from God. All life on Earth draws the energy from God. All spirit beings
draw their existence from the only Source, God. One will have power to exert
when one plugs into the Source of Power, God. The dominion comes by being
conscious of your oneness with the Source and directing Its power to create.
We must live continually in the consciousness of our true being. In this
way we open ourselves, and become consciously awake to the Infinite Spirit or
God that is ever waiting and ready to direct and work in our lives, if we will merely
put ourselves into the attitude whereby It can work in us. In this way, we open
ourselves so that It can speak and manifest to and through us. This It is ever
ready to do if we will but make for It the right conditions.
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There is a very simple method to do this: wherever you are, whatever
doing, walking along the street or driving, at work of any kind, falling off to or
awaking from sleep, setting about any undertaking, in doubt as to what course to
pursue at any particular time, in brief, whatever it may be, carry with you this
thought with conviction: “I am one with God. It is God that dwells within me and it
is God that works in and through me.”
By carrying with us this thought, by holding ourselves in this attitude of
mind consciously for awhile, by repeating it in so many words now and then at
first, we will find it, in time, becoming our habitual thought, and will find ourselves
living in it without the conscious effort that we have to make at first, and we will in
time find ourselves almost unconsciously living in it continually. Thus, God as a
living presence, as a guiding, animating power, becomes an actuality in our lives,
and all wisdom and all power will be given to us as we are able to appropriate
and use them wisely not only for us but for the whole mankind.
This will open the door of your mind to an inflow of substance filled ideas.
God does not give us material things, but mind substance - not money but ideas;
ideas that set spiritual forces in motion so that things begin to come to us by the
application of the laws and as they come use them freely. Do not hesitate and
doubt that they will bring results. They are God’s ideas given to you in answer to
your prayer and in order to supply your needs. They are substance, intelligent,
loving, eager to manifest themselves to meet your needs.
Do not take my word or for that matter anybody’s word, but try the law for
yourself. The other fellow’s realization of the Infinite Spirit or God will not
guarantee your supply. You must become conscious of It for yourself. Identify
yourself with the Infinite until you make It yours. It will change your finances,
destroy your fears, stop your worries, and you will soon begin to rejoice in the
ever present bounty of God.
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“God, in order to create must be self-conscious, able to project Itself into an idea,
and be able to cause the idea to come forth or become visible through a medium
(Itself). Thus God is the idea, the medium and the expression or form.”
= Ernest S. Holmes =
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2. DEVOTION OR LOVE TO GOD
Devotion or Love to God is prayer; and prayer is not asking or begging; it
is your communion with the original source of all wisdom, God.
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is a daily admission of
one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words
without a heart.” = Mahatma Gandhi =
Prayer is a state of mind in which we raise ourselves up in consciousness
to the Divinity within us. Prayer is projecting our thought towards the higher realm
in an attitude of hope, expectancy and receptivity. The attitude of prayer is our
humble, reverent submission of our will to the Will of God. Prayer makes our
individual will coincide with the Cosmic Will. And when the Cosmic Will begins to
manifest through the individual, he creates history and works miracles. Prayer is
worship. God is Spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and truth. When we
worship from within, in spirit and truth, our inner spiritual ‘Self’ is able to discern
the ways that God intended for us to use the laws of our being.
“Prayer is the opening of communication between the mind of man and
the mind of God. Prayer is the exercise of faith in the presence and power of the
unseen God. Supplication, faith, meditation, silence and concentration are mental
attitudes that enter into and form part of prayer. When one understands the
spiritual character of God and adjusts himself mentally to the Omnipresent God-
Mind, he has begun to pray aright.” = H. Emilie Cady =
Love to God is the recognition and living our life continually with this
realization that we are one with, a part of, the Infinite Spirit or God that is the Life
of all; that we are not a mere physical material being; our physical and material
being is being used by our Inner, real ‘Self’ or Spirit to manifest Itself. That we
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are spirit; we are spiritual beings using this physical, material body to live, to
experience, to get contact with the material world around us, while in this form of
life; that we are spiritual beings in the material world to gain human experience.
We must be, in thought, conscious of who and what we are before the qualities
and powers of our real being actualize. We must live in the realization of our
oneness with God and then only the Divine being or God can manifest in us.
Mind is everything. Mind grows by using. What you think is what you
become. We must know in thought and then live continually in this
consciousness about our oneness with God. Only as man becomes conscious of
the Divinity within, only as he becomes conscious – realized in thought that he is
one with God – does this great fact becomes a moving and mighty force in the
affairs of his daily life. It is only by dwelling continually in the conscious, living
realization of this great fact, we enable to be manifested into and actualized
within us the qualities and powers of the All Originating Spirit or God. This alone
enables us to actualize the power and qualities of the Infinite Spirit or God more
and more and through this only we are led into the possession of all other things.
Those who come into this full and living realization of their oneness with
God are at once brought into right relations with themselves, with their fellow-
men and with the Laws of the Universe about them. When we thus live our life
with this consciousness, God’s Will therefore becomes our will, and all is
necessarily must be well with us, for contrary to His Will it is impossible that
anything should ever come to pass. And one who consciously lives his life with
this realization, the Divinity within him reveals to him everything.
One who lives continually under the Divine guidance enters thereby into
the realm of the highest wisdom, and even in the most trivial of things of
everyday life they never find themselves in a state of doubt, for they always know
what to do and how to do it. They have no regrets for the past or any fear with
regard to their future, for they know that contrary to God’s Will (which now
becomes their will) nothing can ever come to pass and thus peace, a full and
abiding peace is continually theirs.
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As one grows into this realization, guided by the Divine wisdom and
sustained by Divine power, in perfectly natural and normal way they get the
possession of an abundance of all things. As we grow in this understanding and
live our life consciously with this thought, we bring ourselves into complete and
perfect harmony with the higher spiritual laws and forces under which we live.
And the degree to which we live our life continually and consciously with this
thought, the higher spiritual laws and forces begin to respond to our call and
bring us all that we desire or will.
“If you seek the GIVER more than you seek His GIFTS, - you will find Him.
Then you will also find that having the GIVER, you have all GIFTS.” =Mildred
Mann=
This, in the true sense, is what Swami Vivekananda said, “Try to manifest
the Divinity within and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it”; this,
in the true sense, is what Jesus said, “Seek ye first Kingdom of God and
everything else shall be added unto you.”
Whoever through this realization thus finds the Divinity within or the
Kingdom of God, will find Swami Vivekananda’s words, ‘everything will be
harmoniously arranged around it’ or the words of Jesus, ‘everything else shall be
added unto you’ literally and absolutely as well as necessarily true. All will follow
in a perfectly natural and normal manner, in full accordance with natural spiritual
laws.
“When one realizes his unity with God, he does not have to worry about
the materialistic necessities of life, he need not be anxious, because when he
removes the darkness from his heart, everything is provided automatically by
God; when one lives continually in the consciousness of his oneness with God,
God takes charge of him and when God takes charge, when God takes the
responsibility one becomes completely free of all kinds of materialistic
endeavors. This is the essence of the teaching of Bhagavad Gita.” =
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada =
Thus, you will have no need to fear for the morrow, for you will know that
all provisions have already been made by God. There will be no need to hoard
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up wealth, for there will be the necessary supplies always available. There will be
no need to live near a Doctor, for God shall be your health. There will be no
regret for the past nor fear for the future for God makes no mistakes and created
no one in vain; God engineered everyone for success – incredible success.
The most powerful agent in character building is this realization and
recognition of our relationship with God; the realization and recognition of our
inward essential nature of our own being; that we are a spiritual being, right here
and now, at this very moment, with the God powers that is ever ready to respond
to our call.
With this realization, we are, thus, brought at once en rapport with the
Infinite Spirit or God; with this realization, we get immediate access to the God
powers that are absolutely without limit. We are born to be abundant; we are
born to be prosperous in every walk and every aspect of our life. The great
Architect of the Universe has filled the Universe with abundance of all things,
filled to overflowing. All there is, in the Universe are specifically placed here for
our use only. They are ours, only if we recognize our true being and lay claim to
them.
God is no respecter of persons and responds to the demands of the man
or the woman who knows and uses the forces and powers he or she is endowed
with. God always opens the treasure house, for the supply is always equal to the
demand. The man who understands his own being and applies the knowledge in
his affairs of daily life has literally all things under his control.
God works through the instrument of human agency. It is God that thinks
through you; it is God that speaks through you; it is God that works in and
through you for you. Not a blade of grass can move without God’s Will. When we
come to a conscious realization of the true facts and live continually with this
thought that it is the Infinite Power that works through us and for us, we always
think good, speak the truth and work righteously. As such, our part is simply to
see that our connection with this Infinite Power is constantly and perfectly kept.
If God is All Life, All Love, All Light, All Wisdom, All Power, All Intelligence,
All Seeing, All Knowing, All Doing and All Having then as a part of the Great
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Whole God, we possess all the attributes and qualities of God. The only
difference is in degree and in scale, for we are miniature reproduction of God.
Hence, we do not lack in anything and all the things are ours. We are doing in the
finite world what God is doing in the Infinite Cosmos; we are creating our own
reality in conjunction with God.
When we come to know and live in this “Truth” consciously, our whole life
can be termed in one word REALISATION. This realization will give you that
care-less attitude, free from care. You will know that the Infinite Power is working
for you and has taken charge of you and that you are relieved of all your
responsibilities except one, which is that you always keep yourself in faithful and
never-failing connection with God.
This conscious realization of your oneness with the Infinite Spirit or God
and the life that you live in with this realization will enable you to get all your
desires fulfilled, for it is God that is the source, means and supply of all the
desires of your heart; for God has planted in the heart of human beings no desire
without its corresponding means of realization. As all life is from within out,
centered thus in the Infinite and working now in conscious harmony with Divine
forces, one can rule his individual world from within.
That individual who knows his power does not judge according to
appearances. He never permits himself to believe that this or that cannot be
done. He knows that those things can be done because he has discovered the
‘More’ which really exists within him. He works in the conviction that he must and
will succeed because he has the power. And this is the truth. He does have the
power. We all have the power. Nothing is impossible; the ‘Great’ within is
limitless - the Inexhaustible Source of everything that may be required for the
highest development and the greatest accomplishments in human life, and
whatever we may direct the ‘Within’ to produce, the same will invariably be
produced in the without.
There is only One Will in the Universe just as there is only One Mind. The
One Mind is the Mind of God; the one will is the Will of God. Your individual mind
is an individual or differentiated expression of the Mind of God, and the largeness
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of this human mind depends upon how much of the One Mind you may decide to
appropriate. You have the freedom to incorporate in your own individual
consciousness as much of the Mind of God as you may desire; and as the Mind
of God is limitless, your mind may continue to become larger and larger without
any end.
To use Divine Will, you must first have a lofty purpose in view; you must
have something high and something definite that you wish to attain; you must
have something upon which to apply the limitless power of Divine Will, and you
must desire to reach that goal with the very deepest and strongest desires of
heart and soul. Then you must will to press on, knowing that you are using
Divine Will, the Supreme will of the Most High, because this is the only Will in the
Universe. It is the Will that eternally wills the higher, the greater and the better –
the Will that is invincible, and always does what It Wills to do.
However strange or unaccountable at times occurrences may appear, we
can rest in a triumphant security, knowing that only good can come, for in God’s
life we are now living, and there we shall live for ever.
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“Whatever with thy heart thou dost desire,
That is thy God adored undoubtedly;
Whatever thing is in thy heart always,
That, be thou sure, thou shalt attain, at last.
If rose be in thy heart, thou’lt be a rose;
If nightingale, then that sweet singing bird.
Thou art a part, God is the Whole;
if thou Engage and occupy thyself,
some while, with that Great Whole,
It will fill all thy being. And make thee Whole.
The part becomes the Whole.”
= Sufi thoughts =
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3. UNSELFISH ACTION OR LOVE TO FELLOW-MEN
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“I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy…. In my own limited
experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the
greater is our own sense of well being …… It is the principal source of success in
life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our
hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key, then, is to develop
inner peace.” = Dalai Lama =
Every human being wants to lead a happy, successful, joyous life with all
the health, wealth, abundance and freedom; there is nothing wrong in seeking
them. The very purpose of our life is to be happy and to become what we are
capable of becoming. In fact, that is the creed of life.
God wants you to be happy, joyous and free. It's official (remember, what
the thinker thinks, the prover proves). If you choose to believe this, then it follows
that anything less than happiness, joy and freedom is not the Will of God for you.
Happiness is your birthright, like the air that you breathe. You don't need
anyone's permission to be happy. (Remember, what you focus on increases). All
that you need is the recognition and realization of the truth of your own being.
What one has to keep in mind, however, is that these are not attainable
directly; a few, here and there, may get them but that would not be a true and
abiding one. If one wants a true and abiding success, happiness, health, wealth,
peace, joy, satisfaction and freedom in life, he can get them only if he looses his
own ‘self’ in the service of others. Only then, he can make his life fuller and
richer, greater and grander and the more beautiful and happy. The greatest
greatness and the only true greatness in the world are unselfish love and service
and self devotion to one’s fellow-men.
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.” = Rabindranath Tagore =
The law of success is service; that we get what we give and for the reason
we should consider it a great privilege to be able to give. Compensation is the
keynote of the Universe. Nature is constantly seeking to strike equilibrium. There
is no such thing as something for nothing. When something is sent out something
must be received; else there should be a vacuum formed.
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This is true on every plane of existence and in every field of endeavor, and
all walks of life. The more we give, the more we get. In the physical world there is
a law of compensation, which is that “the appearance of a given amount of
energy anywhere means the disappearance of the same amount somewhere
else,” and so we can get only what we give.
By observance of this rule you cannot fail to profit in such measure as to
amply justify your effort along this line. The more we give the more we shall get;
we must become a channel whereby God can express activity. God is constantly
seeking to express Itself, to be of service, and It seeks the channel whereby It
can find the greatest activity, where It can do the most good, where It can be of
greatest service to mankind.
This power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it. Use
is the condition upon which we hold this inheritance. We are each of us but the
channel through which the Omnipotent Power is being differentiated into form;
unless we give, the channel is obstructed and we can receive no more.
There is a law which says that one cannot do a kind act or a loving service
for another without its bringing rich returns to his own life and growth. This is an
invariable law.
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out
completes the circle and comes back to us multiplied manifold.”=Flora Edwards=
The great law of compensation that runs through all life is wonderfully
exact in its workings. Our love, our service, our helpfulness to others invariably
comes back to us intensified sometimes a hundred or a thousand or a thousand
thousand fold and this by a great immutable law.
There is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it
directly. It must come, if it comes at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and
the happiness we give to others. So, there is no such thing as finding true
greatness by searching for it directly. It always, without a single exception, has
come indirectly in the same way, and it is not at all probable that this great
eternal law is going to be changed to suit any particular case or cases.
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Katha Upanishad exhorts, “Tesham Sukham Shaswatham. Tesham
Shanti Shaswathy,” which means that infinite happiness and infinite peace come
to them who sees the ‘Self’ within and serve the ‘Self’ in all beings.
Lord Krishna convinced Arjuna that ‘Divinity’ is achieved only by him who
works intensely for the good of others forgetting his own ‘self’, without expecting
fruits of action for himself. “He, who works this way is a true ‘Yogi’; he is a true
‘Sanyasi’.” (Bhagavad Gita - Ch6:text1)
Jesus said, “He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.” In
other words, what Jesus meant was that he who would be truly great, and
recognized as such, must find it in the capacity of a servant.
Swami Vivekananda too had expressed the same view when he said,
“Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.”
If one wants to make his life a great success, truly great and genuinely
happy, loved and blessed by all, it can be possible only if he looses his own ‘self’
in the service of others. Only when you give more of your life for the good of
others that your own life will become the fuller and richer, the greater and the
grander, the more beautiful and the more happy.
“Our best work is done; our greatest influence is exerted, when we are
without the thought of self. Such a man becomes a world mover for whom this
little self is dead and God stands in its place. The perfectly unselfish man is the
most successful.” = Swami Vivekananda =
The more good a person can do for others with his product, his life, his
work, or whatever it may be, the greater success will that person have! No one
ever succeeded in any great degree whose dominant motive was that of personal
gain only. If one actually helps others, many others, to live happier, better, more
successful lives, one need give little thought to the gain that will accompany the
success; for if one does this the gain to self can not possibly be withheld. One's
chief motive then in reaching out for success is not to see how much he may help
himself but to see how greatly he may help many others.
If you are a student, a businessman, or whatever may be your profession,
if you want to become great, to attain fame and honor and thereby success and
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happiness then unless you have a great purpose behind you, a great cause
behind you, you cannot achieve these highest results, whilst one whose life is a
life of service and self-devotion has no limits, for they thus put themselves at
once on the side of the Universal, and this more than all else combined gives a
tremendous power to excel in their chosen field. Nature herself seem to come
forth and give a great soul of this kind means and material whereby to
accomplish their purposes.
“You can have anything in the world you want if you’ll just help enough
other people get what they want.” = Zig Ziglar =
“MAKE THE WORLD YOUR DEBTOR: HEAVEN WILL REPAY”
It purports to be a teaching revealed in these later days from a noted
Hindu Scientist of four thousand years ago. It professes to be the law of worldly
increase as seen from the standpoint of spirit life, and it is stated above in the
caption of this paragraph:
"Make the World your debtor, by serving humanity in every way, but
especially on the highest possible plane of service, the spiritual. Make the debt
as great as possible. Do all the good you can, every time you can, everywhere
you can, in every way you can, and to every man you can.”
The underlying thought is that the Angels, who administer God's
providence here on the mortal plane and are guardians over humanity, will
accept as done unto themselves every act of kindness to mortals, and endeavor
to repay not only in spiritual but also in temporal good.
Live for a great purpose, and hold the central idea of that purpose
constantly before mind. When you begin to live and work for a great purpose, you
get into the current of great forces, great minds and great souls. You gain from
every source; all the powerful lives in the world will work with you; to live for a
great purpose is to live in the world of great ideas, and great ideas awaken great
thoughts.
Most lives, as we have already pointed out, are poor and mean in their
outward expression and conditions because the individuals are mentally poor
and poverty stricken. Little thoughts, plans, ideals beget little interest, little effort,
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little zeal in the individual, and awaken little or no interest in other minds. Great
ideas, projects, enterprises, on the other hand, rouse the soul of the individual to
zeal, effort, courage, daring, commensurate with the great ideas.
You are as you think. Great thoughts produce great minds; from great
minds proceed great works, and great works constitute the building material with
which the kingdom upon earth is to be constructed. Live in accord with all the
laws of life physically, mentally and spiritually; do all things in the consciousness
of God; do all things to the glory of God, and follow the light of His spirit in every
thought and deed; then you will always do the Will of God.
Any method that will tend to develop in the mind the consciousness of the
God will produce emancipation from physical or mental ills, the reason being that
there are no ills in God, and it is not possible for the mind to be conscious of ills
when it is in the consciousness of that which is absolutely free from ills. In other
words, the mind cannot be in darkness, weakness or disease when it is in light,
power and health.
Man is essentially a spiritual being, a part of God. God is Love and Love is
God. Love is another name for co-operation, kindliness, helpfulness and service.
Not to love is not to live, for love is the greatest thing in the world. Love is the
static; helpfulness, kindliness, co-operation and service, the dynamics. They are
all expressions of love; they are love in action.
The entire concept of God and Life in the Vedas is that the life giving force
or soul or Atman as we call it is a part of the Higher Soul or Divine Being of the
Universe called Paramatma. Just like the cells in our body are parts of a higher
organism called a human! If the cells in our body are selfish then they do not
realize that they are part of a higher structure called a human body and instead
just work only for themselves. Whereas a self-less cell which realizes that it is a
part of the human body as a whole works for the betterment of the entire body!
“AHAM BRAHMASMI” is one of famous Mahavakyas in the Vedas, which
means ‘I AM THAT I AM’ or literally ‘I am God’. So if we are to claim to be God
ourselves, and not just part of God, then one has to think beyond the self, in
terms of the entire humanity; he has to be ‘self’ less by giving up selfishness.
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“Do you ask anything from your children in return for what you have given
them? It is your duty to work for them, and there the matter ends. In whatever
you do for a particular person, a city, or a state, assume the same attitude
towards it as you have towards your children--expect nothing in return.” = Swami
Vivekananda =
One has to think and work for the greater good of the entire world, for the
entire society, than just for oneself or just for one’s own family, which is why the
Vedas also say that, for a person who has realized the existence of a Universal
Soul of which he/she is a part, does not require any religious rites to be
performed after death because such a person is bound to attain salvation or
Moksha!
And how does one realize the existence of a Universal Soul? Only by
identifying one’s ‘self’ with the Universal Soul and acting like a Universal Soul; by
working towards making this Universe of ours a better place to live in; by
elevating and enriching the ‘self’ of others; by touching the lives of others in
positive ways; by working towards resolving the problems that exist in the
society; always ensuring peace and harmony in the society.
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for
other people; first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own
happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose
destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are
based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in
order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe,’ a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as
something separated from the rest -a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
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Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.
Only a life lived for others is worth living.” = Albert Einstein =
Vedas say, “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam” meaning that ‘the entire earth is a
family’. Vedas also say, “Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavanthu” which means ‘May all
the people live happily’.
Every time when God wanted to do something good to this world, He did
not do it by Himself, instead God created a child. You and I have come in the
same way. Identify yourself with God and achieve the purpose of your being on
earth and you can proclaim emphatically, “Aham Brahmasmi” or “I AM THAT I
AM “, by replacing the selfish ‘I’ with the self-less ‘I’.
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“Love is innocent when there is no motive in it. Love is innocent when it is
nothing but a sharing of your energy. You have too much, so you share ... you
want to share.
And whosoever shares with you, you feel grateful to him or her, because
you were like a cloud - too full of rainwater - and somebody helped you to
unburden. Or you were like a flower, full of fragrance, and the wind came and
unloaded you. Or you had a song to sing, and somebody listened attentively ...
so attentively that he allowed you space to sing it. So to whomsoever helps you
to overflow in love, feel grateful.
Imbibe that spirit of sharing, let that become your very style of life: to be
capable of giving without any idea of getting, to be capable of giving without any
conditions attached to it, to be capable of giving just out of your abundance.”
= Osho =
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4. MEDITATION
“Every meditation is direct super-consciousness. In perfect concentration
the soul becomes actually free from the bonds of this gross body and knows itself
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as it is. Whatever one wants, that comes to him. Power and knowledge are
already there. The soul identifies itself with that which is powerless matter and
thus weeps……..He who has known God, has become God; there is nothing
impossible to such a free soul.” = Swami Vivekananda =
Meditation is mind management. There is no attempt to control the mind.
Meditation is not concentration of mind either. In concentration, we control the
thoughts and are focusing the attention of our mind on an object of attention and
hence it is a mental exercise.
Meditation creates a space for the ‘Inner Being’ to flower. It creates peace
amidst the chaos that rules our life. Meditation creates the space where you have
neither questions nor answers. You will simply be aware. This awareness is
precious. Where there is pure awareness there is enlightenment. This is true
freedom.
In meditation we do not do any thing; we just watch our thoughts, for
watching is our true nature; we just watch the thoughts and see them come one
after another and get dissolved automatically without any force from our side; we
just feel the flow of our breath which is our ‘life giving force’ or ‘Atman’ within us.
In meditation, we look within directly to feel the presence of the Divinity
within us. Meditation, therefore, is the ‘Mother of Concentration.’ The function of
meditation is to awaken the Infinite Power within one’s ‘self’.
"God is spirit and should be worshipped in spirit and faith. Where does the
spirit reside? On a tree? On a cloud? What do you mean by God being ours?
You are the spirit. That is the first fundamental belief you must never give up. I
am the spiritual being. It is there. All this skill of Yoga and this system of
meditation and everything is just to find Him there.” = Swami Vivekananda =
A calm mind, when the restless mental waves have been stilled, touches
the core of the Infinite and this gets re-energized from even a momentary touch
of that Infinite Self within. According to Buddhist texts, if one can hold on to his
thought, of any desire that he wants to accomplish, continually for 17 seconds
that thought is bound to materialize in objective form.
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Therefore, quiet the senses; seek inspiration; focus the mental activity
within, dwell in the consciousness of your unity with the Omnipotence. “Still water
runs deep.” Contemplate the multitudinous opportunities to which you have
spiritual access by the Omnipresence of Power.
Power comes through repose. It is in the silence that you get in touch with
the Omnipotent Power of your own ‘Self’ within from which all power is evolved.
Intuition usually comes through silence. Great minds seek solitude frequently. It
is here that all larger possessions of life are worked out.
When you begin to perceive that the essence of the Universe is within
yourself – is you – you begin to do things; you begin to feel your power; it is the
fuel which fires the imagination; which lights the torch of inspiration; which gives
vitality to thought; which enables you to connect with all the invisible forces of the
Universe. It is this Power within you which will enable you to plan fearlessly, to
execute masterfully. But perception will come only in the silence.
Go, then, into the silence, even if it be but for a short period, a period of no
more than a quarter or half an hour a day, and there come into contact with the
Great Source of all life, of all power, send out your earnest desires for
whatsoever you will; and whatsoever you will, if continually watered by
expectation, will sooner or later come to you.
All knowledge, all truth, all power, all wisdom, all things whatsoever, are
yours, if you will but go in this way for them. Within a short period you can know
the truth of this for yourself if you will but go in the right way. You have to realize
that silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for
awakening the highest conception of truth. Try to comprehend that God itself is
absolute silence, all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought
concentration is the true method of realizing, awakening and then expressing the
wonderful potential power of the world within.
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“We talk to God—that is prayer; God talks to us—that is inspiration. We go apart
to get still, that new life, new inspiration, new power of thought, new supply from
the fountainhead may flow in; and then we come forth to shed it on those around
us that they, too, may be lifted up.” = H. Emilie Cady =
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THE APPLICATION
“When any object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in
tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time.” = William Whiting =
Man lives to move forward and to move forward is to live more. To live
more is to be more and do more; and it is being and doing that constitutes the
path to happiness.
The more you are the more you do, the richer your life, the greater your
joy. But being and doing must always live together as one. The being of much
gives the necessary power to the doing of much. The doing of much gives the
necessary expression to the being of much.
But this being and doing depends to a larger extent as to what you are
and what you are depends on what you think - what you think of yourself.
“We must ‘be’ before we can ‘do’ and we can ‘do’ only to the extent which
we ‘are’ and what we ‘are’ depends upon what we ‘think’.” = Charles F. Haanel =
It is the power of the mind that rules the world, and therefore it is evident
that he who has acquired the best use of the power of mind will realize the
greatest success, and reach the highest places, that attainment and achievement
hold in store.
When the power of the mind is used correctly in working out what we wish
to accomplish, the other forces we possess are readily applied for the same
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purpose, and this fact becomes evident when we realize that the power of mind
is not only the ruling power in the world, but is the ruling power in man himself.
Therefore to secure the results desired, one must give his first thought to
the scientific and constructive application of mental action.
The ‘Self’ or ‘Divinity’ or the ‘I AM’ within directs the mind, and that the
power of the mind directs and controls everything else in the human system. It is
the mind that occupies the throne but the ‘I AM’ is the power behind the throne.
This being true, it becomes highly important to understand how the power
of mind should be used. You are nothing but Spirit; and Spirit is nothing but Mind;
the only activity of mind is thinking; thought is the only by product of thinking.
Thought is a powerful force of tremendous potency; even mightier than
gravitation, steam or electricity.
You are a part of God, the Infinite Spirit, with the same attributes of God.
You differ not in kind, quality and essence; you differ only in degree and scale;
you are a reproduction of God in miniature form but manifested in bodily form;
you have the capability to manifest in your physical reality all those things that
correspond to your thoughts, much in the same way God created you.
“The moment we fully and vitally realize who and what we are, we then
begin to build our own world as God builds His.” = Ralph Waldo Trine =
When you think of yourself do not think of that part of yourself that
appears on the surface, I mean your body. That part is the smaller part and the
lesser should not be pictured in mind. Think of your larger ‘Self’, the ‘Divinity’
within, that is limitless both in power and in possibility.
Believe in your ‘SELF’, the Divinity within. Give constant recognition to
ALL that is in you, and, in that ALL, have full faith and confidence. Give the
Bigger Being on the inside, your own “Divinity’ within, full right of way. Believe
thoroughly in your greater interior ‘Self’ and know that you have something within
you that is greater than any obstacle, circumstance or difficulty that you can
possibly meet. Then in full faith in this greater something, proceed with your wish.
There is an age old saying, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
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To bring this statement to practical use and apply it in your daily affairs of
life, you have to realize and recognize the hidden wisdom this statement contains
in it. The principle involved in being ‘as we think’ in our heart is revealed in
another age old saying, “As you sow, you shall reap.”
If you sow a grain of corn, you reap a stalk of corn. If you sow a flower
seed, you expect a flower to grow out. A mango tree won’t grow pine apples. A
mango tree can grow only mangoes, the likeness of itself
Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects. Nothing happens without
a definite cause. There is no effect without an adequate cause. Thought is
creative and will automatically correlate with its object. This is a Universal Law,
the Law of attraction, the Law of Cause & Effect. Thought is the connecting link
between the Infinite and finite, between God and man, between the Universal
and the individual.
Electricity is a form of motion and its effect will depend upon the
mechanism to which it is attached. Upon this mechanism depends whether we
have heat, light, power, music or any other thing.
Similarly thought is mind in motion and its effect will depend on the
mechanism with which we establish its connection. Hence, establish the
connection of your thought with the “Power House” within; the Divinity within;
your inner ‘self’, your very own ‘Success Mechanism’ or ‘I AM’ within to get what
you want from life.
When we examine the whole nature of man we find that the ‘Self’ within is
the man himself. The ‘I AM’ or ‘Self’ within is the ruling principle in man, the
centre and source of individuality, the originator of everything that takes place in
man and that primary something to which all other things in human nature are
secondary.
If you wish to understand your forces and gain that masterful attitude
necessary to the control of your forces, train yourself to think that you are a
‘Spirit’, but do not think of the ‘Spirit’ as something vague or mysterious. Think of
the ‘Spirit’ as being the individual you and all that expression can possibly imply.
Train yourself to think that you are the master of body and mind, because you
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are above body and mind and possess power to use everything that is in body
and mind.
“Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are
souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not
bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.” = Swami
Vivekananda =
You must act from the throne of your ‘being’. You must act not as a body,
not as a personality and not as a mind but as a ‘Spirit’, as the ‘I AM’, as the ‘Self’
or ‘Divinity’ within and the more fully you recognize the lofty position of the ‘Self’
within, the greater becomes your power to control and direct all other things that
you may possess.
In brief, whenever you think or act you should feel that you stand with the
‘Spirit’ or ‘I AM’ at the apex of your mentality on the very height of your existence
and you should realize that the ‘Spirit’ or the ‘I AM’ is you – the Supreme you.
The more you practice these methods the more you lift yourself up above
the limitation of body and mind into the realization of your true position as a
masterful individuality. In fact, you place yourself where you belong over and
above everything in your organized existence.
Always be aware of your ‘I AM’ ness; your own Divinity; always recognize
the ‘Truth’ of your ‘Unity’ with God. Sow the seeds of ‘I AM’ (Your Divinity) ….. ’I
OUGHT’ ….. ‘I CAN’ …..‘I WILL REALIZE’ that because you ‘ARE’ (Divine
being), you ‘OUGHT’; because you ‘OUGHT’, you ‘CAN’; and because you
‘CAN’, you ‘WILL’ realize what you desire.
In the degree that you realize this ‘TRUTH’, you draw your power from the
‘Power House’ within and attain all your desires.
“Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any
true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out
self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business. Doing is very good, but that
comes from thinking……fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest
ideals, place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work.”
= Swami Vivekananda =
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Keep in mind that on your own, you are incapable of doing anything; it is
God in you that works in you and though you; it is God in you that works in you to
experience Its own God-self through you; it is God that works in you to enjoy Its
own aliveness though you. You are the temple of God. Your body is the temple
through which It expresses Its innate and infinite possibilities. Your body is the
place where the invisible steps down to visibility.
And always remember that God needs you. You are needed to, in some
special manner, manifest the Divine Mind. However humble your place in life,
however unknown to the world you may be, however small your capabilities may
seem to be, you are just as necessary to God’s effort to come into visibility as is
the most brilliant intellect, the most beautiful, the most politically powerful person
in the world. Remember this, always, and act from the “still small voice” - the
highest within you - to honor the highest - God’s Spirit - within those around you.
There is no alternative to God. In order to help Himself experience His
own God-self, in order to enjoy His own aliveness, He has to help you.
Remember that it is God that implanted Its own desires in your heart and by
implanting its own desires in your heart, God communicates Its wishes to you as
to what It wants to manifest in your life as per Its pre-arranged Cosmic plan.
Remember also that whatever God thinks or desires, it is done. God
accomplishes the things that It wants to create by becoming the thing that It
wants to create.
All the desires in your heart have already been accomplished in the Divine
Mind. It is just a matter of time before they are manifested in your physical reality
at the right time, in the right way and through the right channel, all in perfect
Divine Order. Hence, think of whatever you want to have as already
accomplished, for God cannot fail.
When you walk in the light you cast a shadow. Do you say that you cast a
shadow? You don't do a thing, do you? And you can never get rid of it – the
shadow. The minute you step into the light, manifestation takes place. There's
nothing else that can happen.
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When you move in the light, the shadow that was cast, as a result, also
moves without any effort on your part. In the same way this power of God
operates you instead of you operating it. This does not make you an automaton
(robot). It makes you a point of expression and that nothing is impossible to God.
You are a success because you cannot help it. You are a creature of Light
(God) in the Universe of Life, and suddenly all the shadows of Human Fate
disappear. You are Freeborn --- the old patterns are broken.
It is a definite law that when you are ready God will do the works through
you. Heed it, and you will see the new day dawning through the mists of
conscious limitations.
Spiritual or mental laws are just as real and unchanging as the laws that
govern the material world. If we have certain conditions in the mind, we must
have certain results - not because we believe some wise person’s testimony, or
even because our intuition tells us it is so, but because it is based on a law that
cannot fail or be broken. And just as with nature’s laws, we can know positively
beforehand precisely what results follow from certain mental states.
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“MAN, BY THINKING, CAN BRING INTO HIS EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER HE
DESIRES, IF HE THINKS CORRECTLY AND BECOMES A LIVING
EMBODIMENT OF HIS THOUGHTS. This is not done by holding thoughts but by
KNOWING THE TRUTH.”
= Ernest S. Holmes =
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The Seed Foundation
THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS
“Meditate upon Him and transcend physical consciousness. Thus will you reach
union with the Lord of the Universe. Thus will you become identified with Him
who is One without a second. In Him all your desires will find fulfillment. The truth
is that you are always united with the Lord. But you must know this.”
= Svetasvatara Upanishad =
Plant Seeds For Your Prosperity
When you speak of God's Word over your finances, you are planting seeds that will grow and produce abundantly for you....
If you sow the seed of God's Word in the good ground of your heart by speaking it, it will produce in your life.....
What does a farmer do before he gets a crop? He gives the seed to the
ground and gives it water and care regularly and waits with patience. The farmer
knows that when he sows, the day will eventually come when he will reap his
reward. The farmer may seem to get his supply from the seeds he plants, but he
would never plant a seed unless he had faith in its innate capacity to increase.
Each one of us is a spiritual farmer and we are all subject to God’s laws of
harvest. Here are some random “Thought Seeds” for you to sow them in your
mental field. Water them with ‘faith’ regularly. You will reap a rich harvest in a
different season from when you sow because there is always a time gap between
the period of sowing and the period of reaping. When you sow a mango seed you
will reap many mangoes. This is God’s law of harvest. You will reap much more
than what you sow. Remember that what you give out comes back to you--
multiplied.
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Something cannot come from nothing; something must come from
something; but man is something, else he could not declare himself; and since
he is something, he must be made from, or come out of, something; and that
something must be what we call God. As such, Man comes from God or is made
out of God by God. What is true of whole must also be true of any of its parts.
Hence, man, being a creation of God must partake of the Divine nature of God if
he comes from God or made out of God. Man is made out of and from Life or
God; and, as effect must partake of the nature of its cause, so man must partake
of the Divine nature from which he springs. Since man is made in the image and
likeness of God by God, it is evident that the whole scheme of God and the
whole nature of Divine Being or God is re-enacted through man. Man, as such, is
nothing but God in essence made visible.
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You are the temple of the Living God. Your body is the temple of the
Living God. Not only is man here as the temple of the Living God, but he is here
in order that God can find expression. The temple “embodiment” known as man,
is here for the purpose of God making Himself manifest. The temple is the place
where the invisible is stepped down into the visible. Without man, or this
embodiment known as temple, none of the present-day inventions would have
found expression. Though man has sensed this, he has mistakenly thought to
work independently of this Power. When he becomes conscious that it is the
NATURE of the temple “embodiment” to express God, and that is its only reason
for being, the dis-ease, struggle, anxiety, fear and questioning will cease.
**
Your desire is the urge of Spirit giving the temple “embodiment”
instructions as to what should come into manifestation through that medium. If
you assume the work yourself it immediately becomes impossible or marked with
the ugly shadow of personality or is still-born, but when you make the assumption
that your temple "embodiment" is for the express purpose --- and only for the
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purpose of making the invisible visible, then that glorious relaxation and
naturalness of the expression of God through you will take place.
**
The more naturally you approach the pattern or desire given to you, the
simpler will be its appearing. The hovering Spirit of the Presence is waiting to
pour out the infinite gifts through your temple ‘embodiment’. The temple
"embodiment" is for the purpose of supplying, not acquiring things. That is the
only reason for your existence. It is amazing what takes place when you come
consciously into the understanding that you are here simply for the purpose of
letting this God Power into expression. The recognition that your body "temple" is
for the purpose of letting God manifest through you sets aside any effort or
struggle you can make on the outside to accomplish anything.
**
When the electric current is passed through the refrigerator, it produces
ice cubes. Your body has no more intelligence than your refrigerator. And when
you understand even in a degree that your body --- yes, this very funny, old body,
aged, diseased, filled with heavy scars of battle --- filled with fears and limitations
--- is the actual, literal Temple of the Living God --- and is to be used for the
purpose of showing forth the Light of God, there is some reason for your
existence.
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Who are you? You are the expression of God in your individuality. Think of
that. In Him you live and move and have your being. You are one with God, the
Supreme Power in the Universe. You are one with the Supreme Universal Mind.
And Universal Mind creates what It wants to create. In other words, It gives out
what It wants to see manifested. Think of it. Think! You! Not somebody else--you!
You cannot fail!
**
What are you? You are the temple "embodiment" of the Living God. You
are the transformer, the point at which the invisible takes on a body and form.
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When you see the purpose of your existence --- the expression of God,
the releasing of the unseen into the seen, all the greediness for things, place,
power, name or fame fades away. Why should you be greedy for things when
you know that you are automatically the distributor of all --- that you can give to
all men whatsoever they ask because the giver within the temple "embodiment"
is God?
**
A glorious sense of freedom and relaxation takes place when you realize
your purpose in life. You are here as an organism through which God is to
express Himself. His wishes come to you in the form of desires - yes, all your
desires. They would all be beautiful and glorious if it were not for the way your
intellectual mind distorts them and produces malformations because of its
limitations - because of its inability to believe that God's desires in you have the
power of self-expression.
**
Think for a moment what it means to realize that you are the temple of the
living God - the point through which God is to be expressed - and that His way of
communication to you is through the urge of the Spirit upon your inner person in
the form of desire. You will readily see that it is necessary to take the whole
proposition out of the processes of the human reason which cannot understand
the how, why, when or where of the ‘One’ who "Has a way you know not of."
**
You are a point of manifestation where God pours out into expression, in a
constant and endless stream of power, health, wealth, substance etc.
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You are a man having no competition because you are sent here by God
in whom you live, breathe, move and have your being and at the same time God
lives, breathes, moves and has Its being in you.
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The individual is simply the differentiation of the Universal Mind and his so
called individuality or personality consists of nothing but the manner in which he
relates himself with the Whole.
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The same power that brought Universal substance into existence will bring
your individual thought into physical form. There is no difference of kind in power.
The only difference is in degrees and scale.
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You are one with the nature of your desire. You are the beloved of the
Most High, God and what you seek is already given to you. You are the highest
manifestation of the only power all there is. You are made of the all inclusive
substance of Mind called Spirit or God. Infinite power and happiness is your birth
right. In pressing your claim and claiming your own stand firm knowing what is
true. You are a centre of God in God. Whatever God is in the Universe, you are
in your individual world.
**
Dominion is yours through the recognition of your ‘Divinity’ within ---
dominion to do and to be. The ‘Divinity’ within asks no favors to perform. It does
not need the recommendation or veto of anyone. It is independent of such three-
dimensional rubbish. The dawn asks no permission to dispel the night.
**
Discovering that Divinity indwells you -- that there is a hidden point of
power which is located in the temple of your being -- is like finding a lost
continent. The old systems of man pass away; the revelation from within takes
place.
**
Man, of himself do nothing but with God all things are possible through the
temple of man. Man is only capable of doing anything when this power within him
directs him to do so. Whenever man is in the nature of a thing he expresses that
nature. Man is, in fact, a transformer, a point at which the invisible takes on a
body and form, a point where God becomes visible. That is the reason for his
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existence. Man is the giver and the Spirit within him dictates the symbol of his
giving.
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God has need of you or you would not be. You are here to strengthen that
plan. The desire in your heart is God seeking utterance; the desire in your heart
is the open line of communication – is the message from God to you. Your desire
is the urge of Spirit giving you (the temple embodiment) instruction as to what
should come into manifestation through you. Being a creation of God, it is your
nature to cause the thing to appear from the unseen to seen. Remember that you
have no need that God within you cannot supply. Every instinct, appetite and
aspiration is implanted in man by God.
**
Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of
mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our
task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the Divine Principle of all goodness to
do His own work? His work is done, and we have only to avail ourselves of God's
rule in order to receive His blessing, which enables us to work out our own
salvation.
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There can be nothing, either in the law or in the Spirit back of the law, to
deny us the right to the greatest possible expression of life. So we need not
hesitate to use the law for personal motives, for we have a perfect right to do so.
It is good for every one to express himself, provided that in so doing, he does not
destroy the independence of others.
**
When you discover your union – your oneness - with the ‘Higher-Self’,
God through your ‘Inner-Self’ or Divinity within and are wed to Him, and begin to
function naturally from this standpoint like those who use the receiving set, you
will be able to find the truth in everything, even as a bee finds honey within a
poisonous flower and extracts it. Until this union is discovered or recognized, you
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will continue to look to people, masters, spirits, books or organizations for your
help.
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You must awaken to the knowledge of your real being. When this
awakening comes, you will have, and you see that you have, the power to
determine what conditions are externalized in your life. You must recognize, you
must realize your ‘self” as one with the Infinite Spirit. God’s Will is then your will
and your will is God’s Will and with God all things are possible. And hence no
action on the part of the individual can be at variance with the All Originating
Spirit, God.
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The creative power does not originate in the individual but in the
Universal, which is the source and foundation of all energy and substance, the
individual is simply the channel for the distribution of this energy.
**
In studying the law of your own being, the important thing to realize is that
you as an individual are a specializing center, through which the Infinite Spirit
takes form which correspond exactly to your most habitual conception.
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The relation between your individual mind and the Universal Mind is one
of reciprocal action which might be compared with a tree and its branches. Your
mind is the specific expression of the Universal Mind from which it draws its
power to think. Just as a branch of a tree is a specific part of a tree, not apart
from it, but a part of it. Thus between the Universal Mind and its own specialized
expression (which is your mind) there is a perpetual interaction, as with the tree
and its parts; its branches and its leaves are continually drawing sustenance from
the parent trunk. Your thought action is the specialized, identical action of the
Universal Mind.
**
WE have within us a ‘Power’ that is greater than anything that we shall
ever contact in the outer, a ‘Power’ that can overcome every obstacle in our life
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and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light,
and in a new life.
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It is the Infinite Spirit manifested though you That guides your activities.
Without It you would be unable to outline your intention, much less accomplish
your purpose.
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Man is a center of God in God. Whatever God is in the Universal, man
must be in the individual world. The difference between God and man is one of
degree and not of quality. Man is not self-made; he is made out of 'God
**
As God's thought makes worlds and peoples them with all living things, so
does our thought make our world and peoples it with all the experiences we have
had. By the activity of our thought things come into our life, and we are limited
because we have not known the truth; we have thought that outside things
controlled us, when all the time we have had ‘That’ within which could have
changed everything and given us freedom from bondage.
**
You are working for God and since God has put the desire in your heart
nobody can prevent you from having your desire.
**
The Universe is a mental creation of God, Infinite Being. An Infinite Being
creates infinitely. In other words, all that is, all that was, and all that will be has
been created in the mind of God. You are part of that creation. Your world is a
mental creation of yourself. Know that you too are a creator. Get to understand
your mind a bit better and you will find the way. We can only use the concept of
the Universe being a mental creation of God in our own lives. We are also mental
creators. Every thing, every dress, shoe, tie, suit, car, pencil, house, building,
everything was created by the mind of a human being. In that we are all imitators
of the Creator of all things. God didn't create us to suffer or to prosper. He didn't
create us to be bad, or good. He created all of us and then gave us free will that
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is subject to His Law, commonly called Law of Cause & Effect. There is a road
ahead of you with many forks in it. Each one involves a choice. Your reality is the
result of the choices you made in the past. Your future life will be the result of the
choices you make now.
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You are an individual expression of God. You create what you choose.
How? : By thinking. That is the only way anything is created--by thought. Things
are created by thought in the mind, and by nothing else and nowhere else. Yes,
by your thought, and in your mind. And when you begin to realize that, you will
begin to work for the God who is Universal Mind, in you and in me and in
everybody else, and in everything in the Universe. You will realize that you
cannot fail to do what you really want to do and have what you really want to
have.
**
There is but One Infinite Mind in the entire Universe and we are all
individualized manifestations of It, therefore we are essentially all One Being,
One Life, now and forever more. All is Infinite Mind and Its Infinite Manifestation,
for God is All in All, and Love is the Eternal Reality of Life and of our being.
**
Just as an ocean wave is an expression of the ocean and is part of it, so
are we expressions of the Universal Intelligence and part of It, and it is this
realization of our oneness with all people and the interconnectedness of all life
that sets us free and empowers us, and will eventually bring peace and harmony
to this planet.
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Nature is a Living Intelligence in which we live and move and have our
being, and which responds to us in direct proportion to our realization of our true
relation to It.
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Any prayer that beseeches and begs God to do a thing is an open
acknowledgment that the Creator has forgotten or overlooked something that is
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very necessary of accomplishment. The more we beg God to be good, the more
we show forth our ignorance of His eternal nature.
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Prayer must be something deeper and finer than telling God what He is
and what He should do. Prayer is a conscious recognition of the eternality of
good, here and now.
**
Mental Science or the Science of Mind or scientific correct thinking is
based entirely upon the supposition that we are surrounded by a Universal Mind
into which we think; this Mind, in its original state, fills all space with Its presence.
Since It fills all space, It fills the space that man uses in the Universe. It is in man
as well outside of him. As he thinks into this Universal Mind he sets in motion a
law which is creative, and which contains within itself limitless possibilities.
**
Mental action is the interaction of the individual upon the Universal Mind;
and as the Universal Mind is the Intelligence which pervades all space and
animate all living things, this mental action and reaction is the law of causation;
but the principal of causation does not obtain in the individual, but with the
Universal Mind.
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God or Universal Mind made man for the special purpose of differentiating
Himself through man.
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The Universal Mind is static or potential energy; It simply is; It can
manifest only through the individual, and the individual can manifest only through
the Universal.
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Infinite Spirit is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. It will respond
to our desire in direct ratio to our purpose and faith; the purpose must be in
accordance with the law of our being, that is, it must be creative or constructive,
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our faith must be strong enough to generate a current of sufficient strength to
bring our purpose into manifestation.
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The effects we have produced in the world without are the result of the
action and reaction of the individual upon the Universal. That is the process
which we call thinking. It is the same mind that is operating through the
individual.
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Your predominant mental attitude is what counts. You will manifest in your
physical reality all that corresponds to the predominant mental attitude. Not what
you think once in a while when you are in a Temple, Gurudwara, Masjid or a
Church or have just read a good book.
**
God is the soul of the Universe. Universe is simply the condition which the
Universal Spirit has made for itself. We are individualized spirits and are creating
the conditions for our growth in exactly the same way.
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We are not doing anything on our own. We can do nothing to assist in the
manifestation. We simply comply with the law, and the All Originating Spirit
brings about the results.
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The Universal Mind, being Infinite and Omnipotent, has unlimited
resources at Its command, and when we remember that It is also Omnipresent,
we cannot escape the conclusion that we must be an expression or manifestation
of that Mind.
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In creating a mental image or an ideal, we are projecting a thought into the
Infinite Spirit from which all things are created. The Infinite Spirit is Omnipresent,
Omnipotent and Omniscient. It knows everything in your mind and will set causes
in motion to manifest your ideal in your physical reality. You need not advise the
Infinite as to the proper channel to be used to materialize your demand.
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**
You need not hesitate to the highest possible attainments in anything you
may undertake, for the mind forces are ever ready to lend themselves to a
purposeful will in the effort to crystallize its highest aspirations into acts,
accomplishments and events.
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There is no limit to what the ‘Divinity’ within you can do for you. Only dare
to believe in your own idea. Remember that the Infinite Spirit is sensitive and
responsive to the ideal. Think of the ideals as an already accomplished fact.
**
When the individual mind touches the Universal Mind it receives all the
power it requires.
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Your greatest aim should be to irrevocably convince yourself that the
Originating Spirit which brought the whole world into existence is the root of your
individuality. Therefore, it is ever ready to continue its creative action through
you. Just as soon and just as fast you provide these thought channels, you will
find yourself the possessor of an unfailing reproductive power.
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Your intelligence is the instrument though which the One Creative
Intelligence of the Universe is constantly taking specific form. This being true,
every idea which registers in your mind was first formed in this One Infinite Mind.
A continual recognition of this fact will enable you to find your way out of any
sense of limitation which may arise in your individual experience.
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You are not a material thing separated from God, but a being of pure
Spirit. You, as the highest manifestation of this Power, are made of the all-
inclusive substance of mind called Spirit. You are the center of manifestation,
where all the innate qualities of God pour out into expression.
**
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Human thought is the spiritual power of the Creator of the Universe, God
operating through its creature, man. Since the Creator can create only through its
creature, man, it is all the more important for each one of us to study the creative
process of the Creator and then apply that knowledge in our everyday life so that
the things and conditions we desire become realities in our life.
**
Man is the idea of God, and the idea of God is the word of God, an
expression of God. Man is not a thing of small beginnings but of infinite
beginnings. His resource is the Infinite, and he draws his substance from an
Inexhaustible Powerhouse within. He is never at a loss for supply, be it ever so
scarce in the markets of the world.
**
We don’t have to beg and plead and bargain with God, any more than we
must beg the sun to shine! The sun shines because it’s the law of its being to
shine, and it can’t help it. No more can God help pouring into us unlimited
wisdom, life, power - all good - because it is the law of God’s being to do so.
**
God implanted in man His perfect image and likeness, with executive
ability to carry out all the creative plans of the Great Architect. When man arrives
at a certain point in spiritual understanding it is his office to co-operate with the
God principle in creation.
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"Faith is the hidden secret to everything; the key that unlocks every door that
may exist in the universe; Faith is the perfect way to that inner world from which
all things proceed; Faith is the royal path to unbounded power, immeasurable
wisdom and limitless love; Faith is the gates ajar to that kingdom which first must
be sought if all other things are to be added; Faith is the hidden secret to every
desire and need of man......It is this faith that opens the mind to the limitless
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possibilities of the Great within and gives to man that something through which
he may become as great as he ever may desire to be." = Christian D. Larson =
**
THE SCIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION
“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes destiny.”
= Frank outlaw =
What man is and what man does determines in what condition,
circumstance and environment he shall be placed. To change himself man must
change his thought because man is as he thinks. And since man can change
both himself and his thought, he can determine what his fate is to be.
You cannot change the thoughts you have had in the past that have
created your circumstances of today. You can, however, change your thoughts
today that are now creating your circumstances of tomorrow. Who you are today
is the result of your past thoughts. All of your current surroundings are the result
of your past thoughts.
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"Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only
on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We
become what we think about." = Earl Nightingale =
Every moment is a new moment and a new opportunity to choose new
thoughts and create a new future. By changing your thoughts, you change your
energy vibration, therefore changing what you attract, both now and in the future.
You are the master of your thoughts; your thoughts are not the master of you.
Master your thoughts and you master your life.
The power of words is infinite. Word itself is God - Sabda Brahman. In the
beginning there was the word. The word was with God. The word was God.
The power of word is not merely an idle phrase or form of expression. It is
a real mental, spiritual, scientific fact, and can become vital and powerful in your
hands and in every one’s hands in just the degree that we understand the
Omnipotence of the thought forces, and rise all to the higher planes.
The first form which thought will find is language or words. This
determines the importance of words. They are the first manifestation of thought,
the vessels in which thought is carried. They take hold of the ether and by setting
it in motion reproduce the thought to others in the form of sound.
Words are only thoughts taking form. It is with words that we express our
thoughts. Words, are therefore an invisible and invincible power which will finally
objectify themselves in the form they are given.
In every word there is the power germ that expands and projects itself in
the direction your word indicates, and ultimately develops into physical
expression. For example, you wish to establish ‘joy’ in your consciousness. Just
repeat the word ‘joy’ secretly, persistently and emphatically. The ‘joy’ germ
begins to expand and project itself until your whole being is filled with joy.
Everyone knows that ‘joy’ comes from within. Joy is a state of consciousness and
consciousness is purely mental.
“There is nothing truer than that the quality of thought which we entertain
correlates certain externals in the outside world. This is the Law from which there
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is no escape. And it is this Law, this correlation of the thought with its object that
from time immemorial has led the people to believe in the special
providence.”=Wilmans=
This method of repeating the word makes the word in all of its limitless
meaning yours, because words are the embodiment of thoughts, and thought is
creative, neither good nor bad, simply creative.
It is because of this ever present ‘Creative Power’ within the heart of the
word that makes your health, your peace of mind and your financial condition a
reproduction of your most habitual thought. Try to believe and understand this
and you will find yourself ‘Master’ of every adverse circumstances or conditions.
This mastering is to be accomplished by knowledge, and the only
knowledge which will afford this purpose in all its measureless power is the
knowledge of your relationship with the Universal Spirit or God and Its reciprocity
to your personality. In other words, the words you think, the personality you feel
yourself to be, are all reproductions in miniature form of the Universal Spirit or
God. All your word-thoughts were God word-forms before they were yours.
The words you use are the instruments, channels, through which the
Creative Energy takes shape. Naturally, this sensitive ‘Creative Power’ can only
reproduce in accordance with the instrument though which it passes.
All disappointments and failures are the result of endeavoring to think one
thing and produce another. This is just as impossible as it would be for an electric
fan to be used for lighting purpose, or for water to flow though a crooked pipe in a
straight line.
The water must take the shape of the pipe though which it flows. Even
more truly this sensitive, invisible Divine inflow must reproduce outwardly the
shape of the thought-word though which it passes. This is the law of its nature;
therefore, it logically follows, “As a man thinketh, so is he.”
Hence, when your thought or word-form is in correspondence with the
Eternal constructive and forward movement of the Universal Law, then your mind
is the mirror in which the Infinite Power and Intelligence of the Universe sees
Itself reproduced, and your individual life becomes one of harmony.
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It should be steadily borne in mind that there is an ‘Intelligence’ and
‘Power’ in all nature and all space that is always creative and infinitely sensitive
and responsive. The responsiveness of its nature is two fold; it is creative and
amenable to suggestion. Once the human understanding grasps this all
important fact, it realizes the simplicity of the ‘Law of Life’.
This is the reason why faith builds up and fear destroys.
"If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the
Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word
“fearlessness. Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the
spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you
are going to be killed, fight till you are killed. Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t
go down till you are knocked down." = Swami Vivekananda =
Only believe and all things are possible unto you. It is faith that gives you
dominion over every adverse circumstances or conditions. It is your word of faith
that sets you free, not faith in any specific thing or act, but simple faith in your
best ‘self’ in all ways.
“A man of faith is invincible. He can turn the tides of history. And this faith
comes out of the knowledge that there always is the “Self”, the ever present
Divinity within which is the repository of all strength and bliss. Faith is not belief; it
is a grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.” = Swami Vivekananda =
Your Word is just like a seed which you have put into the ground, and all
that you need to do is to keep it from being trampled upon by doubts and fears
and worry, and to see that the sun and dew of an active faith nourish it until it
come to fruition.
Given herein are a few powerful words which will nourish the life force
within you. Live in these words; dwell on them; demand from them; pray for them.
Make this your daily habit and, if possible, repeat them before going to sleep or
immediately after you wake up in the morning.
ABUNDANCE ACHIEVEMENT BEAUTY
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CONFIDENCE COURAGE CREATIVITY
CONCENTRATION DOMINION ENERGY
FREEDOM FAITH GUIDANCE
GOODWILL HEALTH HAPPINESS
HARMONY HONESTY INTELLIGENCE
INSPIRATION JOY JUSTICE
KINDNESS LOVE LIFE
LIGHT LAW & ORDER MASTERY
MEMORY NATURE PEACE
POISE POWER PERSISTENCE
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PURPOSE QUALITY RESOURCEFULNESS
SUCCESS STRENGTH SPIRIT
SERENITY TRUTH UNITY
VITALITY WISDOM WEALTH
These qualities will come to you; slowly at first, but every atom gained
gives man increased strength to draw more. You may add to these your own
words which, you think, could give you those qualities.
“To him that hath shall be given, and from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he hath.” = Jesus =
“To him that hath shall be given” – means one who has any quality of mind
also has the ability to increase that quality; it will grow in him. “To him that hath
not shall be taken away even that which he hath” is the opposite, that is, one
loses whatever concentration power he possess by the force of attraction which
constantly adds to the hurrying, scattering conditions of mind.
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“The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever
afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease – unless we make a new
crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines. And the creases are habits –
every time we make one it is so much easier for the mind to fold along the same
crease afterwards. Let us make our mental creases in the right direction.” =
William W. Atkinson =
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THE INCOMING
“Opportunity follows perceptions, action follows inspiration, growth follows
knowledge and eminence follows progress. It is always the spiritual first then the
transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.”
= Charles F Haanel =
Life is a store house of energy and man has to learn to tap this energy to
find his place in the Universe. Our awareness and existence depends on the
development of this energy. This energy will help man overcome barriers that
divide people. We are all of the same energy. Our differences are in form and
matter, not in energy and substance.
We all share the same purpose for living whether we realize it or not. That
purpose is to experience life in its fullness; to awaken the Divinity within us and
allow It to work for us; to discover and strive to let unfold that perfection which is
at the very core of our being; to recognize the same perfection in our fellow-men
with whom we share life, so as to help them on the path to discovering it for
themselves. We share a worthy purpose.
If man is to evolve further, it can only be by conscious co-operation with
the law which has brought him up to the standpoint where he is able to realize
that such a law exists. His evolution in the future must be conscious participation
in the great work, and this can only be possible by his own individual intelligence
and effort.
It is a process of individual growth. No one else can grow for us; we must
each grow for ourselves; and this intelligent growth consists in our increasing
recognition of the Universal Laws, which has brought us as far as we have yet
got, and of our own individual relation to those laws, based upon the fact that we
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ourselves are the most advanced product of them. It is a great truth that Nature
obeys us precisely in proportion as we obey Nature.
We all want to enjoy life and liberty. We want freedom in our affairs as well
as in our consciousness, and it is natural that we should. Opulence is the law of
the Universe, an abundant supply for every need, if nothing is put in the way of
its coming. The natural and normal life for us is this - to have such fullness of life
and power. By living so continually in the realization of our oneness with the
Infinite Spirit we find ourselves in the constant possession of an abundant supply
of all things needed.
As we grow in the understanding as to who we are, where we came from,
and what the purpose of our being is and how we are to fulfill the purpose for
which we are intended, we will more and more afford a center through which the
All Originating Spirit or God can enjoy Itself. And we will realize that there can be
but one God filling all space, which is the same in its potentiality whether
Universal or individual.
God had faith when He imaged man and the Universe and through His
faith brought all things into being. Man, being a part of God, must also have his
creations on faith as the only foundation. We all have faith, for it is innate in every
man. How we may put it to work in our affairs is the only question we have before
us.
If one understands that it is the power of the Infinite Spirit or God in man
which originates, creates, directs and forms, then there seem to be nothing
whatsoever for man to do in this great scheme of things to enjoy life, if he can
only learn how.
The sum and substance of the thought presented in these pages is, you
will remember, that the great central fact in human life is the coming into a
conscious, vital realization of our oneness with the Infinite Spirit, God and the
opening of ourselves fully to Its Divine Inflow.
This mighty truth, our oneness with our Creator God, is the central fact of
human life that runs through all religions. This is the great fact that is permanent.
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As long as you live merely in the physical and the intellectual, you set limitations
to yourself that will hold you so long as you live.
When, however, you come into the realization of your oneness with the
Infinite Life and Power and open yourself that it may work through you, you will
find that you have entered upon an entirely new phase of life, and that an ever
increasing power will be yours.
This conscious realization of our oneness with the Infinite Spirit or what we
usually call God is of all things the one thing to be desired; for when this oneness
is realized and lived in, all other things follow in its train. There are no desires
that shall not be realized, for God has planted in the human breast no desire
without its corresponding means of realization.
“I AM” is a power packed proclamation. “I AM” is not only the Divinity
within us but also an expression of what we believe to be true about ourselves
and what we believe to be true about ourselves is what determines the entire
course of our lives.
Our belief system is a composite of ideas which we accept as true or real.
These ideas form a pattern of thinking to which our ‘Inner Self’ responds. Ideas
and beliefs to which we direct our attention consciously and repeatedly will
eventually feed into our ‘Inner Self’ where they continue to work until we find
ourselves acting out these ideas and beliefs automatically and unconsciously.
This is how all habits are formed.
If we focus our attention upon the thoughts of truth, abundance, health
and wholeness, harmony and success, this will manifest in our affairs because
we have formed the habit of using our thoughts for the right purpose. It is
therefore important that we incorporate into our belief system, the fact that we
are individual expressions of the Infinite Spirit or God.
So, whenever you proclaim, “I AM”, make certain it is followed by an
affirmation of Truth, I mean a positive statement about your true nature, about
your Inner Being which is perfect and complete in and of Itself because It is an
expression of God and hence knows only abundance, success, health, harmony.
It only knows Itself which is God in every respect.
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And the most powerful statement of proclamation depicting the true nature
of your being is: “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, happy and
harmonious.”
In order to disburden my mind of certain thoughts that clamored for
utterance, I wrote this book; for I wanted to give to the world something;
something that I felt mankind must have; something that will aid them in their
march upward and onward; something that will uplift and benefit humanity –
something of permanent value. It is my intention to experience the joy of living by
sharing what I have so that others may benefit and partake of whatever little
knowledge that I have gained thus far.
I have written this book with the sole thought of reaching the hearts of the
people, giving them something of vital value, something that will broaden,
sweeten, enrich and beautify their lives; that will lead them to the finding of the
higher life and with it the higher powers and the higher joys.
I have tried my utmost to make every phase of this work (I mean this
Book) as useful as possible, to make everybody feel that there is something in
them, not a single statement has been written that all cannot understand and not
a single idea has been presented that anyone cannot apply to everyday life.
It is my earnest desire to encourage as many people as possible to study
and apply these greater powers within them so that they may become grater and
richer and more worthy as individuals; It is my intention to awaken within each
individual a feeling that we are many times as great and as capable as we
thought we were.
I am sure that not a single individual can fail to realize his wants and reach
his goal after he has learned how to use the powers that are in him. Through this
little volume of this simple book, it is my endeavor to stimulate men and women
to the discovery and perception of the great truth, the greatest thing ever known
to mankind, and an awakening to this truth would help everyone access to an
‘Inexhaustible Power’ that they possess within them and the use of which for
legitimate purpose can make anyone literally a God-man.
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There are no desires that shall not be satisfied to the one who knows and
who wisely uses the powers with which he is endowed. Perhaps you have a big
desire which you would give your life to have fulfilled. In reality, it is only
necessary for you to give a few moments each day to earnest effort, in getting
into the spirit of this idea of God and living in it every waking hour.
To obtain continuous good results it is of paramount importance that you
properly understand your relation to this Great Power that dwells within you.
Unless your faith is built upon the solid foundation of absolute conviction, you will
never be able to make practical use of it.
Thought is a form of energy, a rate of vibration, but a thought of the ‘Truth’
is the highest rate of vibration known and consequently destroys every form of
error in exactly the same way that light destroys darkness; no form of error can
exist when the ‘Truth’ appears, so that your entire mental work consists in
coming into an understanding of the ‘Truth’. This will enable you to overcome
every form of lack, limitation or disease of any kind. An understanding of the
‘Truth’, I believe, is the ‘Secret’ which the entire mankind is ‘a-seeking’.
“By the establishment of truthfulness, the yogi gets the power of attaining
for himself and others the fruits of work without the works” (Yoga Aphorisms of
Patanjali), and commenting upon this Swami Vivekananda says, “When this
power of truth will be established with you, then even in dream you will never tell
an untruth; in thought, word or deed, whatever you say will be truth. You may say
to a man ‘Be blessed and that man will be blessed. If a man is diseased, and you
say to him, ‘Be thou cured he will be cured immediately.”
The Science of God is one science that embraces all sciences and is
relevant to human life. It is in the mastery of the Science of Thought, I mean
scientific correct thinking, through the Science of God that there is opportunity for
unending progression.
The Science of God is the ‘Mother of All Knowledge’ and is truly a no-
effort, fail-proof success mechanism and so radical that you can toss aside all
traditional self-improvement and other positive thinking books or programs that
you have purchased or attended and that never delivered what you wanted. It is
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a guaranteed no-nonsense way to get the right results you want. With an
understanding of the Science of God one may “Decree any thing, and it shall be
established unto thee” and when it becomes fully operational, you will find that
the “things you seek are seeking you.”
This Inner Being, this Inner Intelligence, the Divinity within you is your very
own ‘Success Mechanism’ and is your inheritance. You are the heir! All you have
to do is assert yourself, take possession, and use It. You must use It; for use is
the condition on which you hold It. To neglect It is to loose possession.
You can assert your right, take possession and use this rich inheritance.
Power over circumstances is one of the fruits; health, harmony and prosperity will
be the assets. It offers you poise and peace. It will cost you only the labour of
studying and harvesting Its great resources. It demands no sacrifice, except the
loss of your limitations, your weakness – fear and worry.
But, you must earnestly desire It; you must assert your claim; you must
take possession. This Creative Power within you, the Divinity within you is
impersonal and your ability to think is your ability to control It and make use of It
for the benefit of yourself and others.
Just practice this system. You may seem to attain results slowly, but that
is the best reason for sticking closely and not changing your mind. Remember
that there is always a time gap between the period of sowing and the period of
reaping.
A Chinese proverb says: “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of
standing still.”
You may not succeed the first time you try but practice makes perfect, in
this as in everything. Anything is a cinch when you take it by the inch! No one
can climb a mountain in a single leap, but taking one step at a time men have
scaled Mount Everest!
A great locomotive starts from the depot, moving slowly at first, but when it
gains in momentum it speeds down the track like a streak. Thus it is with you.
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It is results in practical life that we want and we are not true to ourselves
or the humanity until we learn to use the powers within us so effectively that the
greater results possible within the possibilities of human nature are secured.
Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. Life
becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the life he wants to live when he
learns to think what he wants to think. Create your own thought and you become
what you want to become because your thought creates you.
We all know that man is as he thinks. Then we must think only such
thoughts as tend to make us what we wish to be. The secret of right thinking is
found in always keeping the mind’s eye stayed upon the greater and the better in
all things.
Whenever you think or whenever you feel, whenever you speak or
whenever you act or whatever may be taking place in your life, your supreme
idea should be that you are above it all, superior to it all, and have control of it all.
You simply must take this higher ground in all action, thought and consciousness
before you can take control of yourself and direct the forces you possess. You
must constantly know what you are and what you want and you must constantly
be determined to secure what you want.
Be loyal to the All Originating Spirit, God and the adverse conditions, if
any, will break up. Then the true light will come and the Invisible Power you have
been faithfully affirming will begin to reveal Itself to you in all Its fullness of Good.
Persist, persist and yet again persist, in your steady recognition of the
Truth that the actual purpose of the Divine in having projected YOU into being
from Its own Bosom was this and this only: That it might continually flow through
you as consciousness, and that it might always specialize in you as health,
wealth, peace and joy!
Only believe in the God within. All things are possible to them that believe.
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“Take up an idea, devote yourself to it,
Struggle on in patience, and the ‘Sun’ will rise for you.”
= Swami Vivekananda =
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