Thoughts Are Finer Forces

Thought is a finer force. This is supplied to us by food. If you read Chhandogya Upanishad—the dialogue between Uddalaka and Svetaketu—you will understand this point well.

If the food is pure, thought also becomes pure. He who has pure thoughts speaks very powerfully and produces deep impression on the minds of the hearers by his speech. He influences thousands of persons through his pure thoughts.

A pure thought is sharper…

Thoughts Are Living Things

Thoughts are living things. A thought is as much solid as a piece of stone. We may cease to be, but our thoughts can never die.

Every change in thought is accompanied by vibration of its matter (mental). Thought as force needs a special kind of subtle matter in its working.

The stronger the thoughts, the earlier the fructification. Thought is focussed and given a particular direction and, in the degree that thought is thus…

The Ether of Space Registers Thoughts

You can move the world through thought-force. Thought has great power. It can be transmitted from one man to another man. The powerful thoughts of great sages and Rishis of yore are still recorded in the Akasa (Akasic records).

Yogins who have clairvoyant vision can perceive those thought-images. They can read them.

You are surrounded by an ocean of thought. You are floating in the ocean of thought. You are…

The Medium Through Which Thoughts Travel

If we throw a piece of stone in a tank or a pool of water, it will produce a succession of concentric waves travelling all around from the affected place.

The light of a candle will similarly give rise to waves of ethereal vibrations travelling in all directions from the candle.

In the same manner, when a thought, whether good or evil, crosses the mind of a person, it gives rise to vibrations in the Manas or…

Thought Excels Light in Speed

While light travels at the rate of 1,86,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually travel in no time.

Thought is finer than ether, the medium of electricity. In broadcasting, a singer sings beautiful songs at Calcutta. You can hear them nicely through the radio set in your own house at Delhi. All messages are received through the wireless.

Even so your mind is like a wireless machine. A saint with peace, poise, harmony and…

Controlling One’s Thoughts

“Sit calmly. Close your eyes. Find out the cause for the depression and try to remove the cause.”

“The best method to overcome the gloomy thoughts and the consequent depression, is to think of inspiring thoughts and inspiring things.”

“…[T]hink strongly of the opposite thoughts, the opposite of gloom. think of those things that elevate your mind; think of cheerfulness.”

“Feel, ‘I am cheerful’ … smile … laugh … sing … chant OM … run in…

Thoughts’ Affect on the Body

“Every impulse of the mind, every thought, is conveyed by the cells. They are greatly influenced by the varying conditions of states of mind. If there are confusion, depression and other negative emotions and thoughts in the mind, they are telegraphically transmitted through the nerves to every cell in the body.”

As mentioned earlier, thoughts travel almost telepathically through space to affect those around us. Internally, thoughts travel…

Birds of a Feather Flock Together

“People of similar thoughts are attracted towards each other.”

“You are continually attracting towards you, from both the seen and the unseen sides of life-force, thoughts, influences and conditions most akin to those of your own thoughts and lines.”

Because thoughts travel and the energy the inspire within us emanates from our very being, we become attracted to people whose minds are similarly tuned to our collective…

What are thoughts?

“Thought is a vital, living dynamic power–the most vital, subtle and irresistible force existing in the universe.”

Thought is not simply something that exists inside the individual’s mind, rather it is a dynamic force that penetrates the space all around us.

“The Buddha declare, ‘All that we are is made up of our thoughts’.”

“…[Y]ou tend to grow into the image of that which you think about most.”

Thoughts form memory grooves in…

by staff of the Toronto Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre

Our thoughts are very powerful, often more powerful than we think. It has the power to build you up and also to destroy you; it has the power to bring goodness and light to the world or darkness.

With so much power available from our thoughts, we must harness it so it doesn’t run wild. Meditation can help us do this. Through meditation we observe our own thoughts – by observing, we can understand them…

The Dynamics of Thought

Swami Sivananda Saraswati

  If the mind dwells continually upon one line of thought a groove is formed into which the thought-force runs automatically. Such a habit of thought survives death and, since it belongs to the ego, it is carried over to a subsequent earth-life…