WE STRENGTHEN OURSELVES THROUGH MEDITATION
If you open your mind to certain kinds of thoughts, you will attract other thoughts of a similar kind — birds of a feather flock together. You will attract similar thoughts floating around all the time, for this universe is nothing but a thought.
By attracting a thought, positive or negative, you are strengthening it, but it is not a possession. No one can possess you, and no outer thoughts can harm you if you do not allow your mind to let those thoughts into you.
Therefore, in this day and age, when things have become so powerful and technologically advanced, and where the mind has become increasingly sophisticated, meditation is a must for people.
When people strengthen themselves through meditation, all the other thought waves cannot just enter them to reinforce the negative or the positive. Of course, we would welcome the positive by positive thinking. That strengthens us. Therefore, thousands of books on the power of positive thinking and other things have some value.
WE STRENGTHEN THE MIND
Through spiritual practices, we strengthen the mind. We cannot control the mind, but we can strengthen the mind in a positive way. And the very positivity of the mind automatically becomes the control of the mind. It is to make it stronger by positive thoughts and drawing from deep within those spiritual energies that could make you stronger.
To repeat, meditation and spiritual practices are very, very important in this day and age —more critical than five or ten thousand years ago. Because life today has become a rat race—all the time, big fish are eating the small fish. Those times—our great grandfather’s time—were different.
I remember this being told to me by my father—that if he were ill, half a dozen of his friends would close up their shops for the day and come and look after him, and vice versa. It was that love, that togetherness.
Today, your best friend might be lying in the gutter, and you will pass by and say – well, I have got to rush for my appointment, meet my boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever. This does not happen in every case, but that is the general tendency in today’s world of selfishness and not selflessness.
So, we need meditation more!
… Gururaj Ananda Yogi: Satsang US 1980 – 19
