MIND CREATURES

MIND CREATURES

     Powers of mind are unlimited.  Our basic operating system is thought power. It is linked to the entire universe and to God. These were understood by our ancients especially in India. The Indian saints even meditated in Himalayas and achieved great powers of mind. They achieved powers to live without eating, and staying inside water for any long length of time without losing life, leaving body and going on excursion into the universe and returning again into the body at will duly maintaining the body in good condition free from decomposition meanwhile. They were able to control others who are less powerful in mental strength compared to them. They were even able to enter the fresh dead body of an animal and return back to their body at will. They were able to create a great decorative building by mental powers for others to go inside and enjoy its decorations and get it disappears later. So to speak there is no limitation to these mental powers. Methods to develop most of these powers were not recorded in the ancient times except teaching these powers to their disciples only. Hence most of these powers were lost by the time we entered the modern times.

     In spite of this, even the modern world has understood about the out of the body experiences (O B E) otherwise known as astral travel or astral projection which is connected to the mental powers and it is developing at a faster rate in the present days. Science has not at reached the stage of connecting the relation between body, mind and soul, matter in the universe and God. The universe is vast and we can expect correspondingly vast number of secrets, for some we must depend on our ancients as well as modern investigators who developed mental powers and tried to understand the secrets between human life and the universe and God.

     One of the hidden secrets under creation is MIND CREATURES. By concentration and visualization and other occult powers of mind one can create more perceptible externalized manifestations of something whose existence is originated in mind of the creator. This practice is in Tibet. Creation of this kind is called ‘Tulpa’ in Tibet.

     A French scholar lady by name Alexandra David-Neel who spent 14 years in Tibet, also studied about ‘Tulpa’ and practiced it, wrote about her experiences in her book ‘Magic and Mystery in Tibet’. She could prepare a mind creature of a monk, short and fat and of jolly type. It took few months for her to form the phantom monk. It started living with her in the apartment. When she travelled, the monk also accompanied her as a traveler too. At times she felt that a robe was lightly rubbing against her, and once a hand seemed to touch her shoulder. Gradually the phantom monk became more troublesome and escaped her control.

      Once a herdsman who brought a present of butter to her also saw the ‘Tulpa’ in her tent and took it for a live Lama. She succeeded in dissolving the phantom only after a struggle of six months.

     This phenomenon of mental creatures is still a mystery. How this mental creatures are formed by concentration of mind and imagination, visualization and other, more occult, efforts of mind is not clear and not well defined.