Thought is adhesive ……

We all think.

Or at least we think we do. The only creature capable of conscious

thought in the animal kingdom is man. Come to think of that how many of
us think consciously?

Mostly we react to things, events and people.

GB Shaw said that he used to think once a week and he came to be known
as a genius.

Sometimes in our reveries of life there comes some shocks when we feel
the pain of existence and think very briefly- what is the meaning of it all?

Then after precisely 3 days we fall back into routine till the next major
change happens and so on.

Have we ever wondered what is the source of thoughts and their nature?

Or is it better left to philosophers and saints and god men?

Should normal folk like you and me be prohibited from thinking about
thoughts?

From my limited experience it appears that you almost have no conscious

control over your thoughts.

They come from somewhere in our mind’s sky and flit around for
sometime and then disappear from the screen as mysteriously as they
came.

If you happen to observe some particular thought which is interesting then

you pursue it and then get engrossed in it and then get involved in it and
then it becomes a part of your life.

If you do not get involved in it at all it does not affect you in the least.

What gets involved is an interesting question.

Some energy inside us gets involved .This energy is part of ourselves and
is inextricably a part of that elusive thing called spirit or soul or whatever
that makes you feel that you are a conscious living thing well
differentiated from the rest of the world.
So thought which is of interest to you gets attached to your
consciousness.

This is very important to remember.

A thought, which was never a part of you, external by nature,

gets attached to you and becomes a part of your very life.

From then on you start thinking – I thought like that , it is my

idea , like you are fond of saying- my child , my school, my
parents, my property ,my life and so on.

They were never a part of you in the first place and never will
be unless you make the mistake of identifying yourself with
them.

All that you are and have ‘acquired’ are nothing but habits and
thoughts that you have made your “own”

Your parents, spouse, relatives are all thoughts that you

acquired.

When they die and inevitably so will they do -you will feel the
pain a lot lesser if you realise that thay were added to you and
will then logically be subtracted from you.

This is the truth, but for most it is the bitter truth. Why does
one cry when a so called ‘loved’ one departs? Because you
miss his /her presence. Does anyone suffer or cry because the
other person is suffering?

You will be a lot more happier in life if you realised this one fact
only.

Many of us do things which we would otherwise not do for the

sake of our loved ones and make the world a lot less happier
place to be in for others.

Thoughts have the fantastic quality of adhering to your

personality which is why some thoughts affect you and others
don’t.
Besides thoughts that affect others deeply don’t affect you at
all.

Why?

Because you are by nature susceptible to certain kinds of

thought while others are to certain other types of thought.

Who beams these thoughts?

Do they arise from outside or inside?

An analogy will help here.

I was walking on the Marina in Chennai and saw a neon sign of

a leading daily.

The impression fell on my retina and was duly processed by my

mind to make sense of the image from outside.

Can I say that the neon sign was my own?

Certainly not.

Similarly thoughts are projected onto our minds, which

incidentally is another organ, and they are not our own unless
and until we make them our own.

But how many of us are careful in monitoring our thoughts?

There is a veritable invasion every second in our minds and

millions & zillions of thoughts parade themselves before our
naïve consciousness throughout our lives.

How blissfully we allow them to take over our lives.

Any thought which we allow consciously or otherwise will

change you forever till another thought modifies it.

Thoughts have the power to materialise themselves through

you.

This is another awesome power given to all humans.

They are fragile creatures in space till they latch onto you.
May be they have a lifetime of only a few seconds till you make
them a part of your life.

That is why we are seized by causes and ideas.

They have the power to possess and transform.

But you give them the power.

By themselves they are powerless.

The reason why sages and seers throughout the ages have
emphasised the need to think good thoughts etc., etc., seems
to have originated because of this adherent property of
thought.

It has the propensity to latch onto your life subtly and

secretively and convince you that it is a part of your system
whereas it is actually not.!!!

This fact should set you thinking.

Even if you are not inclined to agree to the pronouncement of

the great people who have come and gone it is in the scientific
nature of thought that it adheres to you like a leech .

But what about good thoughts?

Are they also bad?

Yes , if you analyse where they lead you to --- nowhere.

That is why it is also said that you need to remove the bad
thoughts with good thoughts and then throw away the good
thoughts too.

You are today wrongly identified with matter and so on and

letting thoughts adhere to you good or bad will only get you
further embroiled deeper and deeper into a cycle of
experiences that will ultimately lead nowhere.

The end of all experiences is the addition of a certain

intelligence and awareness to your cognitive ability.
That is why you have developed a certain sense of things which
you will either agree or disagree instantaneously though you
will find it very difficult to explain to others.

You know it in your bones about certain things – people, events,

premonitions, experiences.

All of these are hidden experiences surfacing to help you in

times of need.

Which is what is called realisation of sorts.

It is said that God is on a 7-7-7 scale when it comes to

intellectual- emotional-physical/instinctual states whereas man
is somewhere in between on all of these components.

Some may be intellectually superior but emotionally ‘stupid’.

Others may be low on intellect but high on emotional quotient.

Rarely you will find in creation a fine balance between the

scales.

If you meet someone with 777 you have met GOD himself.

Best of luck and happy thought monitoring.