Thought—Its Weight, Size and Shape

Every thought has got weight, shape, size, form, colour, quality and power. A Yogi can see all these thoughts directly with his inner Yogic eye.

Thoughts are like things. Just as you hand over an orange to your friend and take it back, so also you can give a useful, powerful thought to your friend and also take it back.

Thought is a great force; it moves; it creates. You can work wonders with the power of thought. You…

Radium and the Rare Yogi

Radium is a rare commodity. Yogins who have controlled their thoughts are also very rare in this world, like radium.

Just as sweet perfume continuously emanates from an incense stick, so also divine perfume and divine effulgence (magnetic, Brahmic aura) radiate from a Yogi who has controlled his thoughts and who is constantly dwelling on Brahman or the Infinite.

The effulgence and perfume of his face is Brahma-Varchas. When you…

Primal Thought and Modern Science

Thought is the greatest force on earth. Thought is the most powerful weapon in the armour of a Yogi. Constructive thought transforms, renews and builds.

The far-reaching possibilities of this force were most accurately developed to perfection by the ancients and put to the highest possible use.

For, thought is the primal force at the origin and back of all creation; the genesis of the entire phenomenal creation…

The Cell-theory and the Thoughts

A cell is a mass of protoplasm with a nucleus. It is endowed with intelligence. Some cells secrete, while some cells excrete. The cells of the testes secrete semen; the cells of the kidneys excrete urine. Some cells act the part of a soldier. They defend the body from the inroads or attacks of foreign poisonous matter and germs. They digest and throw them out. Some cells carry food materials to the tissues and organs.

The cells perform…

Conservation of Thought-energy

In physics you have the term ‘power of orientation’. Though the mass of energy is there, the current will not flow. It must be connected to the magnet and then the electric current will flow through the power of orientation.

Even so, the mental energy which is dissipated and misdirected in various worthless worldly thoughts should be well directed in proper spiritual channels.

Do not store in your brain useless…

Diversity of Thought-vibrations

Every man has his own mental world, his own mode of thinking, his own ways of understanding things and his own ways of acting.

Just as the face and voice of every man differ from those of another man, the mode of thinking and understanding also differs. That is the reason why misunderstanding easily occurs between friends.

One is not able to understand rightly the views of another. Hence friction, rupture and quarrel…

Marvels of Thought-vibrations

Every thought that you send out is a vibration which never perishes. It goes on vibrating every particle of the universe and if your thoughts are noble, holy and forcible, they set in vibration every sympathetic mind.

Unconsciously all people who are like you take the thought you have projected and in accordance with the capacity that they have, they send out similar thoughts. The result is that, without your knowledge of the consequences…

Thought-waves and Thought-transference

What is this world, after all? It is nothing but the materialization of the thought-forms of Hiranyagarbha or God.

You have got waves of heat and light and electricity in science. There are also thought-waves in Yoga. Thought has tremendous power. Everybody is experiencing the power of thought unconsciously to a greater or lesser degree.

Great Yogins like Jnanadev, Bhartrihari and Patanjali used to send and receive…

Thoughts Are Tremendous Powers

Thought has got tremendous power. Thought can heal diseases. Thoughts can transform the mentality of persons. Thought can do anything. It can work wonders. The velocity of thought is unimaginable.

Thought is a dynamic force. It is caused by the vibrations of psychic Prana or Sukshma Prana on the mental substance. It is a force like gravitation, cohesion or repulsion. Thought travels or moves.…

Thoughts As Wireless Messages

Those who harbour thoughts of hatred, jealousy, revenge and malice are verily very dangerous persons. They cause unrest and ill-will amongst men. Their thoughts and feelings are like wireless messages broadcast in ether, and are received by those whose minds respond to such vibrations.

Thought moves with tremendous velocity. Those who entertain sublime and pious thoughts help others, who are in their vicinity and at a distance also.…

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…