Imagination, pure thought and will power

Do you read comics ? Why reading comics is important ? Reading comics is very important in my opinion. It gives you a flight of imagination and there are many comics which are based and tell stories of science fiction. they tell stories of super heroes. We get a different kind of inspiration and knowledge from them. for example I read a comics about 35-40 years ago. I still remember this story of it. I will tell you so that it will give you an idea of why reading comics is extremely necessary for grown ups too. Story is very simple. An alien army attacks a planet.

I would say that every Grown ups should read comics so that their imagination will get a flight. And perhaps from the chaos of day to day life, This will also help the mind to relax a bit, which is very important.

PURE THOUGHT

pure thought is without word and without a picture: it’s some kind of telepathic way?

Guruji: yes; by giving it word we’re giving it form. Sometimes giving the right word is also very good. Pure thought is formless: while it is formless – it can take any form. Just give it some words.

when we see the dreams, we see not the “pure dreams” – because we see pictures; question is – when I see someone in a dream – my mind gives him some image the person I know?

Guruji: not your mind – that person’s mind is already give him image. I will say – dreamworld and astral world is one and the same; we can see dead people and so many extraordinary things there.

but if I don’t know someone – my mind can give him image in a dream someone I know, whom he resembles in some way?

Guruji: no. you’re in the astral and that person are in the astral – it’s a chance of meeting in the astral. You’re looking at astral form, not physical, and you’re doing it in subconscious or in the vision.

Sometimes people are talking without understanding, just repeating the words.

when you can see dead parents in the dream…?

Guruji: it’s the real astral experience.

but what I can do to control it somehow?

Guruji: don’t believe people who are saying they can control their dreams. It’s a big achievement.

from what depends your decision how to react in the dream?

Guruji: when you’re in the dream consciously. Without that it’s not possible.

but if you remember your thoughts in the dream and the choice how to behave?

Guruji: remember, you’re not alone there. Other beings, their decisions are also affect you. If you’re absolutely alone – only that you’re think will happen. Same with the world, same with the astral world.

one person said to me that he’s unique because he can remember all his dreams?

Guruji: anyone with good memory could remember all his dreams. If you can control the dream – you’re very extraordinary.

APHORISM’S

I simply cannot lower my standard To suit my circumstances!

I have always lived beyond my means! Finally means’s are catching up.

STORY OF YOUR OWN LIFE

For any men in this life is to live comfortably and have enough kitchen-money. Most of the people are facing this challenge.

Those who are not worried about these kitchen-money and this comfort- they go and face much harder challenges.

And they are go through many adventures, and tell the stories of their adventures, which entertain us. So we all must have the story to tell. That is the biggest challenge to create a very entertaining story out of your own life.

WILLPOWER

I’ve been asked- what is willpower?

And I will say that imagination is a strongest force in this creation. Imagination is like very big river flowing, and the ability to control the imagination , in my opinion is willpower!

Just imagine, just you put a bridge across the river, and if you are able to control its flow - tremendous energy you can produce . So if you able to control a little bit of the flow of your imagination, tremendous power and energy will be generated, and with the bright use of that, you can do anything in this world

ISHWAR AN GOVERNMENT

There is discussion going on maybe centuries or millennium, that if Ishwar is formless, then how we can actually think about Ishwar and how to understand His working and other creation? So with a very simple intellect, I can say - Ishvar is like government, we see representatives of government everywhere: government servants, working, to take care of the society everywhere, but no one so-far see government, what is government we have never ever seen, but we keep seeing representatives of the government, prime minister, so many deferent minister and so many public servants are working for government but not a single person has seen government so far. Same way: Ishwar is everywhere, his power is everywhere, he is doing everything for everybody but he remains unseen, as government remains unseen. Please think on this. Thank You!

IF YOU ARE REALLY GREAT

He is a legend. His contemporary was one poet, his name was Dandin – he was also very high. One day between them the argument started – who is the better poet. Who will judge? So they decided: let’s invoke goddess Saraswati; otherwise there are no human being who can judge them.

They invoked the goddess. And she was saying: poet is Dandin, Dandin is the poet. Kalidas became angry and said: oh, you prostitute, then who am I??? and goddess Saraswati said: between you and me now there is no difference.

See, the point is: even goddess Saraswati – he was such high poet that he could talk with goddess Saraswati. That is how it should be.

SEQUENCE OF CREATION

…when we somehow catches – we begin to Imaginate; put a certain image on this formless thought. Then when the certain image is there – then we try to express it verbally. Then this formless thing takes a shape and a form and becomes more conscious then formless state. This maybe the sequence of Creation.

See: everybody needs a home, maybe build a house. What is a house? It is our effort to catch a certain portion of Void as we needed: to catch an empty space in a certain way is called house. Even rat, living in the hole, is route exactly that. Or a lion, living in the cave or in a jungle is doing exactly that; or a bird, creating the nest; everybody is finding the empty space and makes a bound of his own space – begin to build house or home or what. Every being is aware of it.

The process of catching empty space in a certain way is called building a house and making a home.

So whatever you say – sankalpa or decision – they act in the same way. With the enough power, gained by very hard practice of pranayama the mind becomes powerful enough to take the strongest of the strong decision.

but strongest of the strong decision – it is the great will power, no?

Guruji: of course: strong mind will have strong will power. Will power is nothing but controlled imagination.

in some texts they describe the technics of observing the thoughts which are coming to your mind, what do You think on that?

Guruji: I’ve read that and I’ve heard it; many people have discussed that. But until unless you do something to develop your mind it will not developed simply by observation. You may learn something about the working of your mind – that’s it. But here we’re talking about hardcore development: making your subconscious conscious – that is real mark of development.

we are observing with 2%?

Guruji: you’re observing less than 2%!

so with the practice we will have access to the subconscious mind?

Guruji: only this practice will make your subconscious conscious.

what is clairvoyance?

Guruji: just the ability of your mind

is it connected with the ability to use your subconsciousness?

Guruji: no, it’s a different property.

even if some people are really able to see some glimpses of the future – they are not diving into subconsciousness?

Guruji: they live in the fear of the future, always. They maybe connected with the some high power – most of the clairvoyant people are like that.

so when we get the access to our subconsciousness we get the access to some wisdom, but …

Guruji: if suddenly you will get access to your subconscious – your body will burn out, you will not survive. That’s why yogi have recommended go into suspended animation: so no harm will come to your body when your subconscious will be awaken. Read my commentary on Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

Guruji: Yes. Legally and socially we are equal in a democratic society – but the individuality will always remain. An individual power and the different mental levels will continue to exist together – that is the real democracy: to respect another person’s existence and accept it.

What kind of muscles do souls have to exercise to achieve astral power?

Guruji: Only the power of the mind.

What is the power of the mind depending on?

Guruji: When you’re able to develop your imagination beyond the wildest limits and then you learn to control your imagination.

That means you have control over your thought process. If you’re able to control your imagination – then in the astral realm, in the mental world you will be able to create anything, whatever you are able to imagine – simply by imagining it. The power of imagination is the real power there.

Is it a blend of will power and imagination?

Guruji: I think controlled imagination can be called will power.

And if you have a very flowery and colorful imagination…

Guruji: That is not a powerful imagination. A powerful mind can imagine things, which will happen.

Is it a power of intent then? The intent to create something with your mind as well?

Guruji: Of course! Again it will go back to the thought level. If your mind is powerful – your intention will be powerful. You will be able to do anything.

It’s not a poetic ability of imagination: the mind should be powerful enough to be able to materialize whatever you are imagining. That type of imagination. What is imagination? The ability to give a certain image to the Void in a particular way – this can be called imagination. Image, imagination – it’s a beautiful word.

SANKALPA

what sankalpa means?

Guruji: resolve: I will do that. Without that what you will do? Nothing is impossible – but I do nothing from the beginning. Doing impossible!

what does it mean – nothing?

Guruji: means you have gone beyond of the material world: then you’re in the state of nothing. Something beyond material things and beyond the limits.

IMAGINATION – SHAKTI

What is imagination? You’re trying to put a certain image on a formless thought. From that point imagination begins: to put a certain image.

it’s Shakti herself?

Guruji: void is Shakti.

so imagination is another name of Shakti?

Guruji: it’s an expression, display of the Shakti.

it is our efforts to form a Shakti?

Guruji: it is our efforts to put somehow beautiful clothes on the Shakti, which is naked as Void. That is imagination.

ICHCHHA SHAKTI

Could happiness and santosha be more or less one and the same?

Guruji: I f happiness evolves – it becomes santosha.

Are 52 bhairavas equal to the Bhairav like a deity?

Guruji: Yes, bhairav means Bhairav.

Their number is constant – are they always 52?

Guruji: 52 in yoga; 52 petals of your chakras – 52 syllables written on them of the 52 types of nada vibrating there.

How in this case is it possible for the person to become one of them?

Guruji: When he will be absolutely in tune with that particular nada – he will be like that. That's a matter of tuning. Bhairav also literally means “horrible”. From Shiva Sutras: the effort – you must do extremely hard and horrible effort for success in yoga. Then you will get the virgin – your will power, ichchha shakti, divine will power you will receive. You need extreme will power to go forward . Read Shiva Sutras again.

So will power be attained by your force?

Guruji: Yes; that is dharana. The capacity to make the strongest of the strong decisions.

I think imagination is the strongest form in the creation. You should be intelligent enough – it will develop after long time to use your imagination. Imagination: you’re giving image to something, which is formless – that is creation. Control of imagination is called will power. If you’re able to control it somehow – you can create everything.

PURE THOUGHT AND IMPURITY

Pure thought is formless. And when we try to express it , we need to use a certain language, that means a certain sound.

And with every sound , certain scene, what we see, is connected with that.

So these two things are, let’s say, the impurity of the pure thought.

So when we begin to use the words, and the scene connecting with that - impurity begins from that point.

So Yogis, who is practicing very very well , will recognise this thing, and will go beyond that, and finally establish themselves in the state of pure thought and will begin to perceive that that it is part of the void, and void is the ocean of the consciousness.

Thank you!

what will be with the people who have the real strong will power – but not develop their consciousness?

Guruji: strong will power means his consciousness is sort of developed more. There is a difference with an adamant man and a man with the will power. We need to understand it. Adamant is nothing; but strong will power means he has great imagination as well; because controlled imagination in my opinion can be called will power. Adamant is a lack of imagination.

and male spirits usually take births only as males?

Guruji: usually – this is a pattern which we have been observing – thanks to Balaji’s association.

and consciousness: it has some peculiarities in male or female?

Guruji: I will say female are more sensitive, consciousness wise. And they are sensitive more to the spiritual things also, about other world also. They are more sensitive.

Vasana is usually translated as a word like desire, especially sexual. But vasana – in Gita it also means “clothes”; what I have said – that when you’re established in pure thought, no word, no sound, no seen is attached – that is a state of pure thought. When you put any word over it – that is a beginning of vasana: putting a clothes to the purest of the pure thought. That is a beginning of desire.

People like to feel good about themselves and feels they are going very high – but they just doing it for the sake of something. You’re sitting here and you already know – how does it feel to feel high without alcohol and any drug or any chillum; that is a real high. That high is because of high consciousness – which is the effect of the practices.

can we say that if such person wants some intoxication – something is wrong with his highness?

Guruji: looks like it, yes. But then if we’re discussing in the name of spirituality, I will say; otherwise they are free to do anything – who can stop them? Everything is available – use it!

PRACTICE AND WILLPOWER

how to affect all surroundings including people by will?

Guruji: first by making your will strong enough – to create this effect.

is it possible by will to affect the time?

Guruji: if your will being not affected by time for a very long time – then it may be possible.

how this state is generally possible and how to train the will?

Guruji: it is not a general state, it’s rare thing – very rare achievement. I know that only yoga makes your will very powerful. But if you want – you can try another methods.

so I must practice more?

Guruji: what else? Yes.

Q : when you’re reaching the source of the thought – the thoughts disappears?

Guruji : you will know that is the thought and that is the source – it will be very different expression then. Source will always remain.

Q : difficult to imagine the source of the thought?

Guruji : you can’t even understand the true nature of the thought – how you can suddenly will understand the nature of the source? Source is source. Glimpses of understanding we all have from time to time and with practice it will become more and more.

we had discussion about pure thought. From where it comes – I don’t understand.

Guruji: you have different expressions of your mind. And it comes from the Time – it’s the expression of Time.

pure thought is pure energy?

Guruji: pure thought is pure thought. It is much beyond the energy. It energize the energy. But you can not put a simile to it. It will remain formless and unknown, unexpressed. Only when your mind will develop to that level when it become almost pure – then you will begin to perceive that. And on that we are all working. Before void it is Time; and all the memories and all the expressions, all the experiences are there. What is energy? It is just the last form of the matter. Space is beyond that. The void is beyond that. And the void has it’s own consciousness - and just for the sake for using some word we are saying “energy” or some “essence” or some “power”. Beyond that is Time. But that’s the point: the more words we will use – the more impurities we will create on pure thought. But here is another point: someone recently asked me about greatness of Picasso or Rembrandt. I said I respect them very much, but it’s impossible to understand for me, what Picasso were actually painting. And for my opinion – those, who created the Asterix, or Superman or any Marvel comics – their painters are far more superior. I’ve never seen and I don’t believe that looking on the Picasso or Rembrandt painting could make the child smile. But all comics paint by artists makes millions and millions of children smile. In my opinion, they are the best.

NO WILL NO WAY

I live the very simple life

Guruji: that is the most difficult thing to achieve – the simplicity

Everybody says – and they had heard it since their childhood that there is will – there is way; I will add to it: there is no will – there is no way.

So people with no will keep searching for ways and they never find it because they lack will.

So, develop your will! Find the way!

I will say: the person, who has great imagination, and is able to somehow control the flow of imagination; controlled imagination in my opinion is will power. Like: imagination is flowing like a great river – but when you put a dam to it and put a high-draw electric program, creates tremendous power.

Otherwise it’s simply flowing. If you somehow with your intellect and your determination try to control the flow of your imagination – tremendous power will be released out of it.

That is will power.

DEFINITION OF THE TERM “IMAGINATION”

when we’re here near You – the mind is like opening; otherwise it is silent

Guruji: but then exposure of society is there; but you will all be extraordinary in society. You’re not ordinary people. Yes, including you (laughing)

our imagination can help us in astral?

Guruji: it’s like a mental world: whatever you will think or your power of your mind will support you there. If you learn to control your imagination - and to develop it at the same time- it’s fantastic thing!

in what stage of development all that yogi can to imagine will come to reality?

Guruji: this is happening – but it is taking a longer time; we imagine something, you work for it – and it is real.

so in the physical world it’s impossible: you just mention something – and it became real?

Guruji: if your mind will become that powerful – why not?

can You say that all Your imagination now is only because of the development of Your mind?

Guruji: I think so many things you have to consider: genetics also, and your exposure to the world from early childhood to later years – that will feed your imagination. And what is imagination? All consciousness is in the Void; so from that consciousness you’re taking certain part of it and giving a certain image to it. Giving image to something, which is formless can be called imagination.

We talked a lot about imagination; but to understand – what is imagination; today we defined it.

what we can say about people with lack of imagination?

Guruji: they are sitting on the shore of the ocean, afraid to dive. They are afraid subconsciously, genetically. No spirit of adventure. And what can define the spirit of adventure? One line: let us see, what will happen. And go! ( smiling)

as I understand we can create nothing – because everything is already in the Void?

Guruji: we just take something and put some image to it.

that image: from where we’re taking it?

Guruji: our exposure to the world. We cannot imagine something which is not there before in the memory of the creation.

so we cannot imagine something totally new?

Guruji: no; it is all there! All memories, all experiences are well-preserved. We just somehow exposed to it; we think – this is our thought: and new thought come and go.

so creativity is only like mixing the parts of the creation?

Guruji: but if you go beyond all these things and you’re tuned with the consciousness of the Void; then maybe you will have some real imagination.

Original imagination. Let us see, what will happen! Remember: Brahma, the creator – he remembered! And the creation begins.

Everything is already there! How you adjust it, how you make it different portions and mix them together – that is up to your imagination.

so we take the idea from the Void, then we take the image from our subconsciousness?

Guruji: image we take from the vast memory bank of the creation.

THE ORIGIN OF IMAGINATION

today I was thinking about Your words; how the creativity appeared?

Guruji: you see – we are nobodies.

I think when Shiva woke up from his samadhi – He sounded His damaru: that was the moment the imagination started. We begin to put word to the original thoughts which were in the Void without any form, without any shape. With the sounding of damaru the first words were put on the Void. From that very moment imagination begins.

In the beginning was the word and the word was from God.

That was the beginning of the imagination - so the Creation started.

If you want to create a wall - you should knowing about the bricks also. And also how to make a brick and how to use it properly. First you imagine, then you think – that it will happen in this way; then you go and do it.

from subtle to gross?

Guruji: yes; we have come from subtle to gross; and now as yogis – it is our hobby: to analyse gross from the subtle point of view. Like in Yoga Darshan: from samadhi to a process.

to be such creative means to be on the level of Shiva Ji?

Guruji: no, creativity means – you have more imagination than others. And the ability to express your imagination in any form. Today we realised the origin of imagination.

13. WILL POWER IS THE ULTIMATELY BEAUTIFUL VIRGIN

Guruji: after you have realised the fourth state and you know what is what and you have gone beyond your dreams by realising them; then special will power will develop: that is the most beautiful girl.

so it’s not about ordinary will power we understand?

Guruji: that is only 2% - even less than 2%. Just imagine the will power of the fully awakened person, who is able to aim the whole creation simply by concentrating on the Void – his will power; here they are discussing that will power.

maybe You have suggestion for Your disciples – how they can make their will power more stronger?

Guruji: my suggestion is: practice every day, most excellent and most optimum practice you can do: that will take you a very long way. Journey for a thousand miles start with the first step taken. Step by step you will reach your distance.

concentration and stability is the name of the game?

Guruji: consistency; and always keep your goal and purpose in front of you and follow it.

44. CONSCIOUSNESS BECOMES SUBLIME WHEN IMAGINATION IS MASTERED

Successful practice that takes place by applying controlled force of imagination is called as power.

what is power here in that context?

Guruji: controlled imagination

what are the qualities of such superbeing?

Guruji: they just described it: he becomes like Shiva.

sometimes in my imagination I could destroy buildings and even cities – how it’s connect with the reality?

Guruji: maybe you’re very angry on someone whom you want to destroy – and seeing that in your dreams. We all want to destroy our enemies: cut their nose and make them go naked on the main market road.

Having dreams when you sleep are ok; but you should have dreams when you’re awake – and follow them. Try to fulfill them – that is more interesting.

if the spirits are coming from Alakh Niranjan, then from where our consciousness comes?

Guruji: with life! (smiling)

but we have some space or time where all our consciousnesses are living?

Guruji: I read one comics – it was fantastic; where all our imaginations live. It maybe true, because comics also gives us tells us some very profound things.

but it doesn’t exist the separate world for the consciousness and another for the spirit?

Guruji: maybe together – or maybe different; how we can separate ourselves from our imagination?

does it mean that we must control our emotions very strictly?

Guruji: I will say – it’s wrong approach. Yogi are trying not control, but to understand these emotions. Most of our emotions are the reactions to certain situations.

is it true that yogi is controlling manas?

Guruji: no. they have very friendly relationship with their manas. There is the biggest stigma of human beings: they try to control everything. And they always fail.

Guruji, could You explain for us the term “sthirabuddhi”? if it’s not control – then what it is?

Guruji: “sthira” means stable. If you have a slave – he will never be stable.

…you need to work hard. Put enough effort and ambition to become powerful enough and achieve anything. If something exist in your imagination it existing somewhere. Anything is possible. All that you have – your food, your clothes, your house – some time before it was a part of imagination and took a great power to make it real. Everything starts from the imagination of the mind. I think it’s an idea of creator or society to make your mind busy every time. Otherwise the empty mind could create the absolute dangerous situation.

Remember that experiment with the rats? When they have totally heavenly conditions of life, all the possible problems happen with them after some time.

I remember the story I have read many years before. One man died and go somewhere, when all the luxuries were given to him but he couldn’t leave this room. After some time he asked to free him, because he didn’t know how to pass his time. So please send me to hell, I want to see how to live there. But he was answered – sir, you are in hell.

If you’re making your own money, it left to your confidence and it will create better conditions for your practice. You must practice very regularly. Do I look like an ascetic person?

ORIGINAL THOUGHTS

All progress in science or art depends on the person, who can create something really new- the really new ideas?

Guruji: O ne idea is somehow created – then we love to copy that and start to elaborate. Like one example: it is taught that the Wright brothers created the first airplane – Kittyhawk- but if they somehow come now and look at the airplane, they will not believe what they have started. Human beings just need one idea from someone – and then we elaborate on it, evolve it.

From where did this first idea come to these brothers?

Guruji: They often look at birds and they think – if they can fly we can also fly. There are already so many stories of angels and other beings in different mythologies. So they created the airplane like a bird: with the wings – and this principle is even now.

So others’ imaginations were limited – but theirs wasn’t; they had no thought: we cannot fly?

Guruji: They refused to believe: if birds can fly – we can create something which also makes us fly.

Where was the root of this feeling?

Guruji: Very open mind (smiling). I see that only the original inventors discovered something new. Latest scientists elaborated on those principles. Many scientists have said that some dwarf climbed on the tower and told them something in their dream, that’s how it started; maybe the other world is putting some ideas in our mind.

But very often the same ideas are coming to different scientists simultaneously?

Guruji: Yes, and whoever is successful does it.

Could the real genuine original thought come without any help from higher beings?

Guruji: To human beings – very rarely, because we’re representing the past.

HOW TO BECOME A GENIUS

In Gorakhbodh You were saying that music already exists in the Void?

Guruji: But it’s Matsyendranath talking, not an ordinary human. I will just say that whatever was invented or discovered – that it was already existing in Nature. When we begin to be aware of a certain thing – then we say: o, I have discovered it!

So everything is already in the Void: we cannot perceive, we cannot form this idea?

Guruji: Then the Void is limitless; that means limitless ideas are there, waiting. So that you can put a certain image on them and they will become expressed and more conscious.

We focused on the part of the Void – like in the library?

Guruji: No: again you’re going to the past to form the library there. Keep your mind open, let it flow!

Have You seen the film about Ramanujan, the great mathematician? He said that all the formulas were given to him by the goddess?

Guruji: Yes, and he was not able to go through school also – he failed. But he was a great mathematician. When he was in the hospital in his last days; there was a famous mathematician, professor Hardy – he came to him, and he just looked at his number plate and created a few theorems in mathematics. It took 50 years to prove his ideas – but he did it just like that!

I was too upset to see that other scientists from Oxford or Cambridge made him prove all the formulas that he got…

Guruji: And initially he did that! but otherwise he was just considered as an idiot, who couldn’t go through school. This is the real tragedy for genius people: because contemporaries rarely actually recognize them. He’s a legend! His mind was open; he couldn’t survive in England, because he was pure vegetarian: he was just eating bread and butter, that’s it. Also he got sick because of the cold. But he's a genius, yes.

What are the practical methods to reach that space of ideas? Only a yoga path or there exist some other methods?

Guruji: If you know some other method which will actually make your subconscious conscious – do it. Find it.

So it's the only question about the relationship between conscious and subconscious?

Guruji: This is what we’re trying to do.

Q:

so will power can be attained by your force?

Guruji:

yes; that is dharana. The capacity to make the strongest of the strong decision.

In local slang breathe is also called dam. Strength is also called dam. They are almost same. All strength depends on your breathe. Anyone smoking chillum is called dam.

Q:

here it is translated like vital breathe; is it the same?

Guruji:

not exactly same – but more or less same.

Some sort of weakness are able be developed to the will power of that level – if it was there in the essential form, like a seed. Without will power what you can do?

Guruji said, “A genius is someone who has unlimited vision or imagination, who has awakened their consciousness way more than ordinary people. See, imagination is the strongest force of the mind. A genius is one who has the super combination of intellect and imagination, and the capacity to realize it.

“Another thing to consider: All scientific truths that are being discovered today, they have been around since forever. The laws of physics or the rules of mathematics or arts, they have always existed. We were not aware, so we were not able to understand them. The genius who discovered a scientific truth had a developed mind, and he became aware, or conscious, of it and was able to express it. It depends on the level of consciousness. To be stupid or a genius, it’s all in the mind. Whatever our mind conceives, that’s how we behave and express in our lives. When someone says ‘blessing from above’, it really means their own mind.”

I asked Guruji if it is the same as when we sit idly and let our minds wander.

Guruji said, “Idle imagination is not the same thing. That is building castles in the air which never materializes. The fundamental principle is that when the mind comes across a truth or a fact, like an object or a specific form or some event, which triggers some thought, that will lead to real imagination. The Yoga Darshan principle applies here, ‘what the mind attaches to, it absorbs its essence.’ It fires up your imagination, that this is possible and that is possible, and you keep following that to reach the truth. And see, only that person advances in life who can think through a problem from all angles. A man should not be like a hen. Most of them are.”

I asked, “How so, Guruji?”

Guruji then told me an amazing story how he found this wisdom. “My brother kept a poultry farm in Gwalior of White Leghorn chicken,” Guruji said. “One day a veterinarian doctor was visiting. He showed us this experiment. He put a hen on a table and drew a line in front of it with white chalk. Then he touched her head and beak to the line 3-4 times to make sure she has seen it, and then released her. He claimed that the hen will not move; she will keep seeing the chalk-line and think that she is confined in it.

“Even though it was not a wall – it was just a chalk-line and she could have easily walked over it and moved about – the hen stood there for hours. I was shocked! Isn’t that what is happening with all of us? In our society, religion? In our minds? Whatever lines we have drawn we feel confined in them. We are open on all sides but we never explore that. That’s why I say, open your mind, change your point of view and then everything will be okay. Most people live their lives like that hen; their beak has touched the line and now they can’t cross it.”

“Wow!” That’s all I could say.

Guruji continued, “It was an amazing experiment. And the hen literally stood there the entire day and didn’t move. She could have easily flown away. But she got trapped behind that line. Just like we get trapped in our mental limitations. What is bondage? Which limits our freedom to explore the great world. It’s like that story: A man called on his neighbour, ‘Did you know that Neil Armstrong went to the moon?’. The neighbour replied, ‘Even I might go somewhere if I could get a moment free from the daily grind.’”

An unexpressed thought finds expression mainly with the support of word and vision. Thoughts are induced in our mind whenever we hear a sound or observe something. When it is said that it is auspicious even to sight a saintly person the underlying meaning is that the sight of a saintly person causes inspiring thought to spring up in mind, which in turn induces piousness in the observer. The piousness thus induced inspires him to imitate the saintly person. Charmed by such inspiration he himself makes efforts to attain saintliness, and becomes himself a saint.

Saintly person is the one, who knows in totality about his I-consciousness.

Those, who, having realized the truth of life, live it in its totality and make great advances, are sagacious.

Controlled imagination which is applied for realizing some specific imagination is resolve.

Extraordinarily dynamic abstraction is called as thought. Unexpressed abstraction is initially expressed as a thought. Unexpressed thought is expressed by means of word and vision.

Being adapted to a specific behavioral pattern is called as establishment.

Restlessness to fulfill a specific objective is called as avidity.

A process of developing confidence of being able to do something is called as practice.

Practice when successfully accomplished gives capability.

Capable is one who exudes confidence of being able to do everything all by himself.

Those who are anxious because of thoughts being berserk perhaps do not know that thoughts can be tamed by tying them with a thread of breaths.

Word is only a symbol to indicate an expressed thought.

An unexpressed thought is expressed by means of word and a word is preserved in memory by means of script. We can realize after pondering that our body also is a medium of preserving in memory, the consciousness that is an expression of the ultimate consciousness.

Looking at the universe it appears as if God has expressed some of his thoughts in a conscious form and has scripted it through the medium of universe. Who ever could interpret this script, such great person only could succeed in approaching its creator.

An act is a manifestation of thought taking place through the medium of body.

If castles are to be built in air, build them huge and still more huge. If fictitious sweets are to be bitten, take them bigger and still bigger. What worth meagerness in fiction world!