The way one thinks, that is what he finally becomes. It is often said, “The way you think, that will be the world before you.”
However, happiness and sadness is only a state of mind. When we are promised security for the moment, we experience less fear and hence the voice of the mind that becomes less chaotic offers a little peace to the thinker. That momentary peace gives joy within and hence the thinker falsely leans on the security that he has received rather than realizing that both his states of worry and peace were merely dependent on the way he alone thought.
We often feel that when we are happy others too must be happy. One may be very happy for what he received…the same happiness that he received may become a source of anxiety and unhappiness to another who has yet not received the security that the former received. Yet we pretend to be happy for the former while we think and bring to ourselves misery and anxiety.
At every moment we bear within a new thought. From this new thought is born a new analyzer. From the new analyzer is born a new planner. From this new planner is born the new desirer. From the new desirer is born the new chaser. The new chaser readily and willingly accepts to chase that thought at any cost…even at the cost of his own self. And from that chase is born the sufferer that is confident that he will gain the ultimate peace if he allows his thought to chase his mirage and in that chase he is ready to leave behind only temporarily his so-called ‘present peace’. After he has caught his mirage he feels he will return with its gain to his self and add its treasures to his ‘present peace’.
All of this happens within the mind of the thinker, and while he crushes himself for his dream he crushes the present wealth of his peace and as well the peace of those he lives and works for. How very sad!
Hence, O child if you need to watch anything carefully, watch your thought. Watch if it dares to repeat. Watch if it creates the havoc of fears in you. Watch if it is asking for you to forget the present knowledge you have gained to remember peace.
Remember peace over all. If anything touches it, it needs to go. Nothing can give peace security other than remaining in it. Peace is never given…it is never found…it is never chased…it never can be kept!
Peace is a state of being that is born when one can witness his thoughts and not be bound to it. It is that state in which one is able to see his thoughts chase the needless. It is that state in which one finds endless patience to see the thought roam and return. It is that state in which one remains like a stone that is untouched and cannot be moved by the emotion of thoughts. The resolve in one’s Atmic principle will finally make the thought dissolve in the truth of the Self. The only thing that you have to realize is that the peace you chase is simply suffering awaiting its return to you. Peace is present in you…right now.
Be fearless of such thoughts. Continue to concentrate on truth. They are bound to subside and once they do the same energy that was utilized to go outward will turn inward and return to you as peace.May you always be at peace. May your thoughts always return to it!
Part of the book: 'Inspiring Thoughts'
By Seema M. Dewan
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