The Power of the Mind🔗

Let me tell you about a research that was conducted in the last century:

A man was punished with life sentence for a crime he had committed. Some scientists approached him and asked, 'You have received the death sentence, which will occur on the due date, is that true?' He replied that it was true and that there was no way he could be saved. Then the scientists asked him if he could give his body for experimentation before his death for the welfare of mankind. The man agreed.

The scientists took written permission to perform the experiment from the court of law itself. The scientists, the psychiatrists and the doctors came They used a rat instead of a snake for the whole procedure, but the man was told that the snake had bitten him and he was about to die.

His mind was convinced that a snake had bitten him, and therefore he held a strong belief that he would die in the same manner the horse died. As soon as the 'snake' bit him, the power of his mind produced trembling in his body. The man trembled in the same way as the horse did, and died.

Scientists investigated his blood and found snake poison in it!

The mind has the power to create anything positive, or anything negative. It can destroy your life; it can save you as well! It can create diseases in you; it can heal you. It can create heaven on earth; it can create hell on earth. It can make you feel contented; it can make you feel miserable in the same situation.

Mind creates the poison of illusion in your system.

This mind is nothing else but illusion, or what we call in Sanskrit Maya. 'Ya ma iti maya': that you will realize that worry is nothing more than your response to an event. The way you choose to respond determines whether it becomes a worry for you or not.

Let us take an example:

Let us say that the company in which you are working is going through a crisis. It is sacking employees. There is every possibility that you may lose your job as well. As soon you hear this news, you start going into deep worries. Worries possess you. You start thinking, ‘What is going to happen? What will my wife say? The children will be ashamed! I bought a new car on credit, how will I pay it?’ All your deepest fears surface and you may even visualize yourself ending your life on a sidewalk as a homeless person!

Worrying like this won’t improve your situation. It will not improve your problem at all. Unfortunately, you may get sacked, but you may not get sacked at all as well! Endless possibilities are there. Nothing is certain but one thing: you are likely to develop a stomach ulcer worrying like this!

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You will be shocked! How disconnected, how irrelevant your thoughts are! One thought will target one matter, and the next will have jumped to a conclusion which is not directly relevant to the matter! You will start imagining yourself being sacked, then going back to your house and announcing the news to your wife, who will soon divorce and leave the house with your children. Then you will picture yourself wandering around employment agencies, without finding work, then go into deep depression and lose everything.

All your energy will be propelled towards creating negative scenarios about the future.

But can you tell for sure that things will happen this way? And then if it's meant to happen this way, what control do you have on this? What is meant to happen will happen, but your response to it is completely in your hands: the way you respond is your free will.

Of course, these issues are the most important things in your life today, and so you have a strong emotional attachment to it. That is natural.

You see, change in life is inevitable. Life is not the secure ground you wish it to be; anything can happen any moment. The Universe has an intelligence of its own that nobody can control. This life you are living today won't be the same forever. Understand that the whole thing is a wonderful orchestration of Existence. So just welcome it, instead of procrastinating over it!

What is the power of coincidence?

Have you ever suddenly thought about an old friend? And when thinking about him, the telephone rings and he is there on the phone?

Slowly, as you open up to Existence, you notice such miracles happening around you. These miraculous coincidences are what you call 'power of coincidence'. Spirituality is making you more sensitive to the space in which you live, to your surroundings, so that you start acknowledging that you are having a relationship with the Whole, with Existence itself.

Sometimes, when you have a sincere question, a stranger comes to you and gives an answer. Or, you desire some kind of sweet food and somebody

Any positive intention of yours will start materializing in your life. Any endeavours you do with a positive intention for your growth and other's growth will find fulfilment, because you are working in tune with your center and the universe. You are working in collaboration with yourself; you have become your associate; you have fallen in tune. Therefore you attract auspiciousness to you, and the Universe responds to your thoughts.

God was watching her, and was listening. He said, 'She should be living' and he reached down and touched her, and gave her life.

And she grew up to be a beautiful flower, and that corner of the desert became so beautiful because of her.

From anywhere you are, if you are ready to open up, to flower, you can become a treasure in that place; you can make a difference around you. You can bring God down to planet Earth!

This is exactly what enlightened masters are. They are beautiful flowers that magnify everything around them. They attract others by their sheer beauty and naturalness. They are incarnations of love and service to their fellow beings. They are the embodiment of spirituality!