POWER OF THOUGHTS CHAPTER 7
By: Khoji

If we desire and aspire for higher, nobler, healthier and happier life, we must first of all avoid, discard, brush aside or forget our lower ideas and thoughts, as soon as they sprout in our mind. At the same time, we should try to replace or substitute them with higher, nobler and inspiring thoughts.

If the depraved thoughts are not forgotten or diverted, but are entertained and cultivated, they percolate and permeate deep into our mind and then into the sub-consciousness. Gradually, in course of time, they become insidious and powerful to enslave us, make us corrupt, depraved and vulgar, with a trail of lower elements of selfishness, envy, prejudice, avarice, jealousy, hatred, anger, egoism, aggressiveness, wickedness, cruelty and what not.

The easiest and quickest way to get out of this vicious circle of harmful thoughts, and to save ourselves from the pernicious(deadly/harmful) consequences of these depraved thoughts is:

- to replace and substitute them with higher, nobler and inspiring thoughts,
- to divert our mind to sublime contemplation and spiritual meditation; and
- to seek awakened and enlightened souls and imbibe sublime inspiration in their holy company

The example of a vessel with putrid and stinky solution will illustrate the point, and make it more comprehensible. It may be easy to pour out the foul solution from the vessel and replace it with better one, but the putrid solution of the 'mind vessel' cannot be wishfully poured out.

This Mental Solution constitutes infinite, perverted ideas and thoughts, insidiously collected and condensed in our Mental Computer over many many years and countless past lives.

Therefore, we must understand and realise how tedious and difficult a task it is to change the pernicious(deadly/harmful) and vicious thought solution of our mind-vessel, and to adopt and practically work a new course of higher and nobler lives. Our efforts in this direction have to be incessant(continuous/never-ending), steadfast and tenacious(persistent), with determination, resolution, perseverance, against all kinds of circumstances, environment, temptations and stubborn opposition from perverse(vicious) elements, both inside and outside.

As explained above, our lower and depraved thoughts have engraved very deep grooves in our sub-consciousness, through so many past lives, and have fructified into our character or second nature. Therefore, persistent, tenacious and Herculean efforts are required to change, modify or erase these perverse(vicious) grooves from our sub-consciousness, so as to manifest any perceptible improvement in our behaviour and habits.

However, we should not be discouraged by our slow progress, or recesses, but continue persistently, with renewed resolution in our efforts, until we make a mark for the better, in our behaviour, habits, ideology and character.

Thereafter, the process of change becomes smoother, quicker and more manifest in every aspect of our daily life.

But the crucial point is to develop our inner sense of discrimination, where we can distinguish between:

right and wrong
good and bad,
virtue and vice,
morality and sin,
love and hatred,
materialism and religion,
religion and spiritualism,
saint and hypocrite,
God and 'devil'; and

make the important choice of our future course of higher and nobler life.

Without this discrimination and choice, our lives are like compass-less, radar-less ships drifting about aimlessly, and knocked about and battered by storms and vagaries(extravagant action) of the vast ocean.

In order to:

- develop the power of discrimination,
- make decisions about crucial choices of the life's course,
- take a turning point of life, and
- walk on the chosen course of life,

inspiration, help and guidance of the Enlightened Souls is very essential. In their company and with their guidance, our minds are gradually purified and spiritualised, and we become amenable(open to) and conductive to the sbulime influence of subtle vibrations of Divine Light and Energy. At the same time, the influence of materialism is imperceptibly reduced from our consciousness in due course of time.

The More our thoughts are spiritualised by sublime company and meditation, the more they become subtler, powerful and dynamic, with reflections from Divine Light and energy.