Question: Here you touch the fringe of a very important question. Who can say that our thoughts are quite 'right'?
Answer : True. The term 'right' yields newer and newer shades of meaning as our mental clarity increases. We may even at some stage realise that what appears as the indvidual thinker is in fact one of the infinite modes in which the cosmic can manifest.
Question : When such a glimpse comes, values must undergo a total overhauling!
Answer: Yes. Let us have one more look at the play of forces in and around us. We know that a good deal of time elapses between the first appearance of a thought in us and its final effective manifestation in physical terms in daily life. From this standpoint we can regard all pain-causing visible combinations of today as the mere expression, in the sense-world, of old thought forces. They are like ships that loaded our cargo long ago, and slowly started moving towards us down the channels of creative energy. Likewise, no doubt, our right thoughts that are loaded into the vessels of today will catch us up somethere in the future and deliver the goods duly. In other words, pain of some sort is likely to persist till evolutionary forces pick up our present right thoughts and alter the picture by depositing them in appropriate forms in and around us.
Question : The wisest course then, is to stress right thoughts whenever and wherever we can, and stoutly refuse to be thrown off our balance by the attacks of the wonderfully re-incarnating entity, Pain.
Answer : Heroes learn to ignore them, while they press forward with the best thoughts they can command. Manure in one form may be foul-smelling; but the plant transforms it into a sweet-smelling flower. Heroes similarly, take up what we call 'pain' and transform it into the divine energy that heals and saves.
-Swami Nisreyasanandaji -
[Flights To Nobler Heights]
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