THOUGHT TECHNOLOGY

THOUGHT TECHNOLOGY

(This is a long article kindly have patience to read it fully. It may be beneficial to you)

GENERAL:

     Thought power is the operating system of human life. But what happens after death? Can this thought power continue after death or not? It is a question that cannot be answered. If this thought power has any connection with the spiritual resources within us, it can continue as the spiritual resources of our soul are likely to continue even after death. It may also be considered whether there is any other power equivalent to thought power that prevails or supplied to the soul after separation from body. Whatever it may be we can call it as thought power only for purpose of this article. But some famous Indian saints are of the opinion that the entire universe including matter consisting of stars and planets have come out of great thought power of God. The following quotations may be of some use to understand the thought power.

     “What is this world after all? It is nothing but materialization of thought forms of God.” ----- “Thought is the primal force at the origin and back of all creation; the genesis of the entire phenomenal creation given as a single thought that arose in the Cosmic Mind.”  ----- “Thought is a great force; it moves; it creates. You can work wonders with the power of thought. You must know the right technique of handling and manipulating thought.” ( From the book ‘THOUGHT POWER’ by Sri swami Sivananda).

     If the entire universe is created by the single thought power of God, there should be definite relationship between the human life and the planets and stars. Since we are in the solar system, the planets of the solar system and the Sun may have more power on our lives than the stars. It is this understanding that developed the subject ASTROLOGY. (Please go through my post ‘Learning western astrology simplified’, if you are interested in knowing about astrology). The first point of the sign Aries which is one of the intersection points of ecliptic with the equator rules the start of human head while the end of sign Pisces rules the end of feet gradually in order of signs. These intersection points are moving backwards slowly at the rate of one degree in seventy two years among the stars. So it is the solar system only that governs the shape of human body through sign Aries to Pisces. Perhaps the shapes of other creatures are governed by distant star systems as there is lot of difference in intelligence and spiritual powers and thought powers between humans and other living beings on Earth.  Next to the solar system, stars of our galaxy Milky Way along the ecliptic (The path of movement of the Sun as seen from Earth) seems to have considerable influence on human life. Since the entire universe is created by God, some religions consider these planets and stars as angels of God or deities with some spiritual powers to influence human life besides gravitation pull on human bodies which has also some effect on human life. If there is any life supporting system in the universe similar to our solar system with superior star power and earlier formation of system there should be superior life there than that of human life and some inferior animal life or other forms of life on it due to influence of our solar system and other distant star systems and vice versa. Everything lies in the secrets of creation. Only the long future can reveal it.

     As seen from the quotation given above there is need of thought technology to design our life not only in this birth but also in our future births. Thought technology consists of concentrated positive thought properly directed to achieve the desired effect. Meditation  also constitutes part of thought technology. Loose thinking and weak mind creates negative thoughts such as fear, anger, hatred, worry, lust etc. Strong mind can produce positive thoughts such as courage, love and right thinking. There is need for strengthening the weak minds. Concentration methods like black spot gazing, star gazing, crystal gazing may be useful for strengthening mind. My post on ‘mental powers’ may please be referred for details.

     Nobody knows what God is. Simply saying God is the creator is not self sufficient. The universe is full of good and bad. There is continuous clash between good and bad. If we personify good as God there should be another creator for bad. We may call it as Satan.(Not the Biblical Satan, but far more superior to it and nearly equal to God himself, as good and bad are almost equal in nature). It appears that by some law of equilibrium, two great indestructible and everlasting, equal and opposite spiritual powers representing good and bad are existing in the spiritual world since a long time. No one knows how and when they came into existence. But there seems to be continuous clash between them, resulting in partial break up of their infinite souls, that produced angels, fairies, good human beings and right up to good bacteria from God’s side; and demons, devils, bad human beings, and right up to bad bacteria from Satan’s side. There are good stars and good planets as well as bad stars and bad planets. It is even possible that there may be some bad creatures similar to human beings but of opposing nature in some other life giving planets of other star systems. The purpose of creation by God seems to reunite his broken souls into him. God seems to have created matter in this universe so that human souls are covered by matter (body). God has also given thought technology to human beings to operate through their material body utilizing the spiritual resources to reach God step by step. Satan created anti matter to counter it. When matter meets anti matter there is tremendous destruction resulting in liberation of gamma rays. This type of destruction is going on at the point of God’s creation itself. The visible universe has escaped from this destruction. We are on the safer zone. 95% of the universe seems to be invisible black matter, whereas the visible matter is only 5%. This may be an indirect indication that God is only 5% superior to Satan. (For details my post ‘My views on creation, soul, mind and matter etc.’ may please be perused).
Views of YOGI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA:

     “A child is born on that day and of that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future results”. ----- “The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate ----- the result of past good and evil ----- but to arose man’s will to escape from his universal thralldom. What he has done, he can undo. None other than himself was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in his life. He can overcome any limitation, because he created it by his own actions in the first place and because he possesses spiritual resources that are not subject to planetary pressure”.(From the book ‘Autobiography of a YOGI’ by Paramahansa Yogananda”.

     The above quotation is a very useful one as it reveals the processes of life even in different births. Probability of rebirth is very well established now not only in India but also in some foreign countries by some practical studies. We can design our advanced rebirth in each birth by utilizing spiritual resources in us properly; simply speaking by utilizing thought technology as explained already. As the entire universe is created from great thought power of God and as we are also given mini thought power, by applying positive thought power with concentration and meditation in proper direction we can design our next birth so that we can reach God step by step.
Quotations by Sri Swami Sivananda:

     “Thoughts of worry and thoughts of fear are fearful forces within us. They poison the very sources of life and destroy the harmony, the running efficiency, the vitality and the vigour. While the opposite thoughts of cheerfulness, the joy and courage, heal, soothe, instead of irritating, immensely augment efficiency and multiply the mental powers. Be always cheerful, smile, laugh”. -----“ “As a man thinketh so he becometh” is one of the great laws of thought. Think you are pure, pure you will become. Think you are noble, noble you will become”. ----- “Therefore understand the laws of thought, raise only thoughts of mercy, love and kindness from your mind and be happy always.” ----- “Remember again, positive overcomes negative. This is a grand effective law of nature”.

     “ Man has made his own destiny by his own thinking and acting. He can change his destiny. There is no doubt of this. By right thinking and by strong exertion, he can become the master of his destiny”. ----- “Intense passion, hatred, long standing bitter jealousy, corroding anxiety, fits of hot temper actually destroy the cells of the body and induce diseases of the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and stomach”. ----- “There is no limit to the power of human thought, the more concentrated the human mind is, the more power is brought to bear on one point”. ----- “Being a great force thought carries tremendous power. It becomes a matter of great moment to know how to use this power in the highest possible way and to the greatest possible effect. This can best be done by the practice of meditation”. ----- “Concentrate; explore the higher regions of the mind. You can see distant objects , hear distant voices, send messages to distant places, heal persons who are at a distance and move about to a distant place in the twinkling of an eye”.(Please refer my post on ‘MENTAL POWERS’ for details). (Quotations are taken from the book ‘THOUGHT POWER’ by Sri Swami Sivananda).
My Experience:

     Kindly go through my post on ‘SECRETS FROM EXPERIENCE’ which is the basis for writing all the articles connected with thought power etc. The experience I underwent is a rare one at the borderline of life and death with a surprise recovery with some secrets of life, which I am bound to keep on record for the benefit of others who read it. I touched with death and even lost ability to pray, but meditation was born in me (not prayer) but a positive thought that just touched me from the depths of my subconscious mind, which I struggled to catch with Herculean task, and ultimately succeeded with enormous struggle between life and death. There was no prayer, but it is only positive thinking repeatedly that worked well. Though my recovery took several years I never lost hope as my positive thinking continuously gave sufficient improvement. Since my feelings were blocked for several years, when once I recovered they came out with enormous force and out of my control. Whom so ever I liked was momentarily hypnotized by my feelings. I was not aware of it since a lady asked me, why she was hypnotized by me to marry a mad man. I have clearly understood the power of thought even under weakness. If so there is no limitation to the powerful controlled thought. My experience even revealed that all religious prayers work independent of which religious God you pray, as every prayer releases positive concentrated thought power, which ultimately reaches God and response comes. Probably it is a process under creation. This is indicated in most of the religious books either directly or indirectly. My experience also revealed our connection with planets and Sun of the solar system. Kindly go through the post 'Secrets from experience'

RELIGION AND GOD:

     Every religion accepts that the universe is created by the thought power of God.

     “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. (John, chapter 1, and verse 1 of Bible)

     The above verse from the Bible also indicates indirectly that the universe is created by God by his thought power.

     The quotation given by Sri Swami Sivananda in the early stages of this article as shown below also indicates the belief of Hinduism in support of materialization of this world by the thought power of God.

     “What is this world after all? It is nothing but materialization of thought forms of God”.

FROM THE BOOK ‘THUS SPAKE VIVEKANANDA’:

     “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divine within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control, or philosophy --- by one or more or all of these --- and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines or dogmas or rituals or books or temples or forms are but secondary details”. In my article I am giving more importance to psychic control.

     “Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error; and the greatest error says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature and that you have no power and you cannot do that or this. Strength is life, weakness is death; strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal! Weakness is constant strain and misery. Weakness is death. Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood”. To strengthen your mind there is need to practice mental powers if necessary, as I have mentioned already. (Please refer my article on ‘Mental Powers’).

     “Thou wert my God with prophets old; All creeds do come from thee; The Vedas, Bible, and Koran bold sing thee in harmony”. This indicates that all religions lead to common God.

     “Ask me it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you”. (Mathews, chapter 7, verse 7, from the Bible). This indicates that the God is kind enough to give what we desire. In my opinion several do not know how to ask God. The routine prayers in the churches and temples and other worship centers may not represent the right way of asking God as they do not contain the required concentration of thought. To achieve what we ask God there is need for greater concentrated thought power with positive thoughts only. Weak and miserable thoughts and the thoughts that you are a sinner will damage you. Hence be careful while praying. Let there be only positive thoughts, and no negative thoughts.

     All religious prayers work as they generate thought power. Be careful not to criticize other religions. If you criticize other religions, you are indirectly criticizing the basic principle of your own religion, as it is the same for all religions. There is danger that your prayers of your own religion may not work if you criticize other religions.

The Vedantic conception of God:

      “What is God of Vedanta? He is principle, not person. You and I are all personal Gods. The absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe is impersonal principle”. ----- “God is the infinite, impersonal being, ever existent, unchanging, immortal, fearless; and you are all His incarnations, His embodiments. This is the God of Vedanta, and His heaven is everywhere”.

     “Avataras (divine incarnations) alone can descend to the ordinary plane from that state of Samadhi, for the good of the world. Ordinary Jivas (individual souls) do not.

     “It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. Our own souls contribute all the divinity that is outside of us. We are the greatest temple. The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we see within ourselves. Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us to see God. If you know one soul (your own), you know all souls, past, present and to come. The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul”. (From the book ‘MEDITATION AND ITS METHODS according to Swami Vivekananda’).

MEDITATION:

Meditation is an integral part of thought technology. It is through meditation our thought power is enhanced. It generally consists of a positively meaningful sentence repeated frequently suitable number of times with sufficient concentration. Due to repetition proper channelization to God is formed and further meditation thereby becomes easier. Preferable timings for meditation are morning and evening, but the same can be practiced at any time depending on the necessity. Regular practice can increase the power of meditation. Concentration methods such as black spot gazing etc. can strengthen mind and further improve the power of meditation.

     According to Swami Vivekananda meditation is the power which enables us to resist our slavery to nature.

     According to Swami Sivananda, thought carries tremendous power. It becomes a matter of great moment to know how to use this power in the highest possible way and to the greatest possible effect. This can best be done by the practice of meditation. Meditation promotes radiant health, heal diseases, develop personality, changes destiny, can transform the mentality of persons. 

Thinking about sense objects will attach you to sense objects; Grow attached and you become addicted; Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger; Be angry, and you confuse your mind; Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience; Forget experience, you lose discrimination; Lose discrimination, and you miss life’s only purpose.

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The uncontrolled mind does not guess that the Atman is present: How can it meditate? Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is happiness? (Bhagavad Gita, II. 62, 63, 65)

     Controlled mind is necessary with proper thinking and less attachment to sense objects for the purpose of meditation.

THOUGHT POWER AND SCIENCE:

     The universe is said to be materialization of thought forms of God. If so the matter is another form of thought. Man himself is a mini form of God as stated in most of the religions. As such man can produce matter from his thought power. This is what exactly happened by some powerful saints of India.

     “Masters who are able to materialize and dematerialize their bodies and other objects, and to move with the velocity of light, and to utilize the creative light rays in bringing into instant visibility any physical manifestation have fulfilled the lawful condition: their mass is infinite”. (From ‘Autobiography of a YOGI”.)

     According to science mass increases with velocity.  Any material body moving with the velocity of light is said to have infinite mass. Also according Einstein the energy latent in a matter is equal to its mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. This idea resulted in the production of atomic bombs, wherein matter is converted into enormous energy.

     If thought power interacts with this latent energy of matter, there may be no limit to release energy into the universe. It appears that such things were achieved by the ancient maharishis of India by enormous TAPAS (meditation) for years together in Himalayas. They used to fight with these powers they gained by tapas, causing enormous destruction, as indicated in the ancient books of India.

     It is also stated by some saints of India that after our death, our souls take infinitesimal form as desired, and take light ray as vehicle and travel into the universe as they please. It is not known that the wave lengths of the rays they use are the same as that of visible light or some other wave length. It appears that they use shorter wave lengths than that of visible light that penetrate even through matter. Only our future can reveal the facts.

     If any modern saint can develop this art of materializing and dematerializing objects, they can defuse any stored atom bombs and make it inactive for the benefit of humanity.

LIGHT:

It is generally accepted by almost every religion that the essence of creation is light. As per the latest available information from science and astronomy and astrophysics that only the 5% of the universe contains light and the rest of 95% of the universe contains dark matter and dark energy. In terms of matter only, the dark matter is 85%.. Then what happened to the created light if we assume that the universe is first created with light as the essential part of creation? This discrepancy led to me with a new theory as indicated in my post ‘My views on creation, soul, mind and matter etc.’ kindly go through the post for details. Briefly saying, I assumed two great creators God (good) and Satan (evil) with frequent fight between them. God’s creation of matter and Satan’s creation of antimatter clash resulted in enormous destruction of both resulting in production of gamma rays. This might have eliminated light from them resulting in the formation of dark matter and dark energy. This is only an assumption as science is not yet able to form any reliable theory on the formation of dark matter and dark energy. Based on these phenomena, it is assumed that God is only 5% superior to Satan in power. We are only living in the 5% visible universe that escaped the fury of Satan and hence we are on the safe zone.

     “The law of miracles is operated by any man who has realized that the essence of creation is light. A master is able to employ his divine knowledge of light phenomena to project instantly into perceptible manifestation the ubiquitous light atoms. The actual form of the projection (whatever it be; a tree, a medicine, a human body) is determined by the yogi’s wish and the powers of will and visualization.” (By Paramahansa Yogananda).

     But I think that the above Para is applicable in the 5% visible universe only where the light energy exists.

KRIYA YOGA:

“The actual technique (of kriya yoga) should be learned from an authorized kriyaban (kriya yogi) of Yogada Satsanga Society / Self Realization fellowship. Here a broad reference must be suffice.”

     “Kriya Yoga is a simple psychophysiological method by which human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of the extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers. By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent the decay of tissues. The advanced yogi transmutes his cells into energy”.

      “By Kriya Yoga past masters caused their bodies to materialize and dematerialize at will. Kriya is an ancient science, but lost in the Dark Ages. Sri Sri Mahavatara Babaji rediscovered it and simply named it as Kriya Yoga.”

     “The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mystery. This is India’s unique and deathless contribution to the world’s treasury of knowledge. The life force which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart action must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.”

     “Untying the cord of breath that binds the soul to the body, kriya serves to prolong life and to enlarge the consciousness to infinity. The yoga technique overcomes the tug of war between the mind and the matter-entangled senses and frees the devotee to reinherit eternal kingdom. ----- Master of his body and mind, the kriya yogi ultimately achieves victory over the last enemy, Death.”

     “Attaining the power or sense disconnection, the yogi finds it simple to unite his mind at will with divine realms or with the world of matter. ----- The life of an advanced kriya yogi is influenced not by effects of past actions, but solely by directions from the soul.” (From the book ‘Autobiography of a yogi’).

     AS observed from the above pares from the book ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, it is clear that a kriya yogi can materialize and dematerialize his body at will. Controlling breath and thereby controlling senses seems to be an essential part of kriya yoga. Even if you stop breathing for few seconds, you find lot of improvement in your concentration power. (But don’t stop breathing for more time than few harmless seconds unless you know the right practice of kriya yoga under the guidance of an expert kriya yogi).

     It appears that this technique of kriya yoga existed in India from the year 3102 B C but lost in the dark ages and later rediscovered by Sri Sri Mahavatara Babaji. Modern science is also fast improving to catch up the connection between the mind matter and soul. If there is mutual cooperation between the kriya yogis and the modern scientists this relationship can be quickly ascertained.

MAYA (COSMIC ILLUSION):

      “Maya is the magical power in creation by which limitations and divisions are apparently present in the immeasurable and in separable.”

     “The Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of Maya, the principle of relativity and duality. God, the soul life, is Absolute Unity; to appear as the separate and diverse manifestations of a creation He wears a false or unreal veil. That illusory dualistic veil is Maya. Many great scientific discoveries of modern times have confirmed this simple pronouncement of the ancient rishis.” ----- “No law of physics, chemistry or any other science is ever found free from inherent opposite or contrasted principles.” ----- “Maya is the very structure and fabric of creation. Nature herself is Maya.”

     “To surmount Maya was the task assigned to the human race by the millennial prophets. To rise above the duality of creation and perceive the unity of the Creator was conceived as man’s highest goal. Those who cling to the cosmic illusion must accept its essential law of polarity: flow and ebb, rise and fall, day and night, pleasure and pain, good and evil, birth and death. This cyclic pattern assumes a certain anguishing monotomy, after man has gone through a few thousand human births; he begins then to cast a hopeful eye beyond the compulsions of Maya.” ----- “So long as the man remains subject to the dualistic delusions of Nature, the Janus faced Maya is his goddess; he cannot know the one true God.” ----- “Maya cannot be destroyed through intellectual conviction or analysis, but solely through attaining the interior state of nirbikalpa Samadhi. (In nirbikalpa Samadhi one realizes fully his identity as spirit).(From the book ‘Autobiography of a YOGI’).

     Some consider Maya as Satan. Satan seems to be a great obstruction for joining the human soul with God. It seems to create all varieties of negative thoughts in humans such as anger, lust, hatred, etc. that weakens the mind of human beings and drags them into the world of Satan, where the human soul undergoes unbelievable sufferings. It is here the birth of God as human being becomes necessary to take the sins of human beings and Himself suffer, and relieve the humans from the clutches of Satan. Birth of Jesus is an example. (I have already mentioned that the sins are transferable). This is a process of saving humanity from the evil control of Satan, by God. 

KARMA, UNIVERSAL LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT:
It is observed by several saints of India that current birth is the result of our past karma in the previous birth. The sins we committed in our previous birth will result in our sufferings in our present birth. This seems to be a process of purification. Since we are governed by the planets position at birth, our time of birth is so adjusted to suit the planets position to compensate our karma of the past birth. This process of purification continues with each birth until we reach proper access to join with God. In case our sins are of extreme nature we may be even dragged into the world of Satan to undergo enormous sufferings. There may not be escape from this state of sufferings. Hence there is need to be good with strength of mind. Good is God, just with removal of ‘o’.