SOCIAL HARMONY THROUGH CHANGE OF THOUGHTS

 

Today we find a lot of peacelessness and tension in our social atmosphere. The main reason for this is disharmony in our relations. This disharmony is reflected in various forms like jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, violence, etc. So much selfishness has crept in our behaviour that all the time we are thinking and bothering about our own comforts, luxuries and gains, even at the cost of harming others.

 Thoughts in our minds affect us and our environment in various ways as enumerated below.

EFFECT OF THOUGHTS

1. Whatever good or bad we think, the vibrations of these thoughts spread around in the atmosphere just like light and sound vibrations. Whosoever comes in contact with these vibrations becomes charged temporarily with these positive or negative thoughts. If our thoughts are negative, the vibrations released by them will cause uneasiness and peacelessness to the person whom they hit.

 This is the reason why we feel so pleasant just by sitting beside those persons who have good thoughts and feel constant restlessness by sitting beside persons having negative thoughts.

 2. Whatever we think, impressions of these thoughts constantly sink down in our subconscious mind in the form of sanskaras. If our thoughts are negative then our subconscious mind is constantly bombarded with negative impressions which make our souls impure, due to which, negativity in our own souls further increases. So a vicious circle is formed which constantly increases disharmony in the atmosphere around us. This vicious circle needs to be cut to restore us to our pure state.

 3. The most important effect of the thoughts is that they have the power to get materialised into physical conditions and circumstances are attracted to us accordingly.

To quote an example, if you repeatedly have this negative thought and fear in your mind that you may develop a particular disease, you will find that the disease has actually started manifesting in you. So this is the power of the mind or thought over matter.

 TACKLING NEGATIVE INFLUENCES

What about the negative thoughts, feelings and actions of others which constantly disturb us? The answer to this is that through practice of Rajyoga, we can increase our soul power (atma shakti) to the extent that these negative influences then cease to have any effect on us. You might be knowing that we have surrounding the body an envelope of subtle radiations from our body called aura.

The more soul power we have, the stronger and brighter will be the aura. For any negative thought to enter us, it has to cross through this aura. If our aura is strong enough the negative influences will not be able to pierce through it and therefore we will remain totally immune to the negative influences around us and our balance will not be disturbed.

So through Rajyoga we can increase our atma shakti and counter the effect of any negativity proceeding towards us. Now what is Yoga? Yoga means connection with God. As soon as this connection is established, a fountain of peace, knowledge, bliss and power starts flowing towards us because God is the ocean of all these attributes.

This happens in the same way as when a battery is charged by connecting it to a high power source. By connection with God not only our soul power increases but all the impurities of our minds are also washed away, making our souls totally pure. In this condition only good thoughts emerge from us.

EASY CONNECTION

But this connection with God should be maintained not only during meditation but in our practical life also, through twenty-four hours. The simple technique for this is that we should always feel the presence of God with us in whatever we do. For example, we should feel that we are eating with Him, we are walking with Him, we are working with Him etc., i.e. we should involve Him in all our activities.

In other words, whatever we do, we should be always holding His hand. Just like a child feels totally secure and light when he keeps his hand in his father’s hand, so do we keep ourselves always with God, because in such conditions God takes total responsibility for us in His hands.

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Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya