The mind does not differentiate between the real and the imaginary. Thoughts have tremendous power. Thoughts of hurt, insult, abuse or injury crystallise the experience as real. The actual experience may have happened for five minutes, but you relive it and suffer it a hundred times in your mind as real. Hurtful thoughts have the power to manifest as disease in your body and mind. It is well researched that there is a continuous flow of logic from the mind to the body and vice versa. So, most big diseases manifest due to resentment and thoughts of unpleasant happenings.
Once there was a plague in some remote village of China. A local healer started curing people with some herb that grew there. Surprisingly, he cured all those who took this miracle medicine. Slowly these plants vanished completely, leaving many patients yet uncured. A wise old man in the village advised the suffering people to just keep repeating the name and thought of that miracle herb mentally and also mentally consume it. Even that worked as a healer.
An experiment was done on an audience at a musical concert and the ones playing the musical instruments. It was found that the effect of that music on the minds of both, the listeners and the players was the same. Thoughts have the power to create or dismantle your reality, they can make you rejoice or cry.
The famous examples in Vedanta of the snake that you see in the dark on the rope, or the ghost that you imagine on the post at night are typical examples. Use the torchlight of your discretion to dispel the imaginary ghosts masquerading as reality in your mind. We create our own fears and tears by imaginary flights of the mind. Beware of the games the magician mind plays with you.
Prarthna Saran, President Chinmaya Mission Delhi.
