The practical reality is based on one statement from Sanskrit.
‘Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati’ which means you become as you think.
You become as you think.
Fundamentally, everyone has to change to his/her thinking.
There is no way you can change anyone unless that person wants to change the way they think.
There are millions of thoughts that pass through the mind.
Do we need them all?
No and what are the thoughts like?
Most of them are based on fear, anxiety and insecurity.
Most of the thoughts are about how I am going to survive in this world.
Is my money situation going to be alright?
Is my relationship going to be intact?
Is my health going to be okay?
You are constantly being played by these thoughts.Do we have control over these thoughts?
Superficially you may say no.
We do have.
We have become conscious.
Step outside.
We have to step outside of this process.
We are just not victims to our thoughts.
The Tibetan Buddhists have a beautiful saying about this process.
They say that ‘The thoughts are our guests.
They check in and check out.
You are the host.’
No thought will remain there forever.
One thought will be replaced by another thought.
I want to tell you that the thought energy is a great capital that you have.
There is nothing that you cannot accomplish with this thought.
‘Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati’ – you become as you think.
It’s a very poor translation because ‘bhava’ is as you as you think a thought it becomes
an existence of itself.
That’s the real Sanskrit meaning because in Sanskrit there is a way of relating the
psychological reality with the physical reality outside.
So as soon as you think a thought, you also bring a physical reality and this knowledge
has a tremendous impact to manifest what you want to manifest.
The Yogic way of manifesting thing is thought manifestation.
You think a thought and manifest that thought and you do it very, very easily.
I have two examples.
One is Conrad Hilton.
I think everyone should read this book ‘Be My Guest’ by Conrad Hilton.
This book is not available in the market.
But if you go to a Hilton Hotel, they will give you a copy, free copy of that and there
Hilton discusses how he built this empire and he was born in a very, very humble family
with no money and eight children.
One day he signed the newspaper, a picture of Waldorf Astoria, you know that hotel in
Manhattan, he just fell in love with that picture.
I must built a number of hotels like this’, what was the condition of Hilton?
He was a boy who had no desk of his own, the family was so poor.
It took several months to get a desk of his own.
But he wanted to put this picture on the desk and look at it all the time.
After several months he got this desk of his own, put that picture on it, kept on looking
at it.
Within seven years, he built the first Hilton Hotel and the last achievement in his lifetime
was to buy the very Waldorf Astoria and he had a great mother.
The mother had no money but she was never negative.
Most of the problem with many people is that they grew up in a very negative environment.
They had to counteract parental negativity.
The mother asked him to read Helen Keller’s book ‘Optimism’.
If you have to learn optimism it must be from Helen Keller’s book.
You compare yourself with Helen Keller.
We have everything.
But we are the greatest complainers and his mother was reading that book ‘Optimism’
by Helen Keller.
You have to become totally positive.
My definition of faith is positivity.
Faith means positivity.
Doubt means negativity.
I should not doubt that I am going to manifest all these things and if I doubt then I will
not.
Why?
Because I doubt.
That’s why thinking is very, very important.
Napoleon Hill went about interviewing people who made millions and millions of dollars
and became very successful businessmen and he wrote a book.
What’s the name of the book?
‘Think And Grow Rich’.
It is by thinking that you do everything.
If you don’t think then you cannot do anything.
I have a group of students and I just wanted to teach them this and then make them to experience
in their lifetimes and I said and then the people who had a bad credits and then they
won’t even want to go and look at a Mercedes Benz.
I said, ‘If you want to manifest a Mercedes Benz, it’s very easy.
Hold that thought’, because the thought reality here is not different from the thought
in the physical reality.
One is linguistic, psychological reality.
Another is the physical three-dimensional reality.
One cannot exist without the other.
You hold this thought.
If you want to manifest anything, if it’s a Mercedes Benz, you just go on saying this,
Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz and you will find that you are attracting
it towards you and this is one example.
Now there is this guy, Leonardo Dicaprio and when he was a boy at the High School, he had
a mantra, the mantra was Robert De Niro.
All that he wanted to do in his life was to become Robert Di Niro.
Robert Di Niro was his mantra.
He used to dress like Robert Di Niro, walk like Robert Di Niro, eat like Robert Di Niro,
whole consciousness was Robert Di Niro.
He wrote this in his book.
I read this in his biography.
I am Robert Di Niro, I am Robert Di Niro, I am Robert Di Niro – his whole consciousness
is filled with that.
That’s how mantra works.
What you do with the mantra?
The Yogi goes into a meditation.
The classical definition of meditation is this.
‘Ekatanata Dhyanam’- Patanjali.
Patanjali is the Founder of the Yoga Sutras and he says ‘Ekatanata Dhyanam’.
Meditation is the uninterrupted flow of your consciousness towards the object that you
meditate on.
I can guarantee you.
If you can just focus on one object for 36 hours, 36 hours you just go on and meditate
on that.
Yogananda who came here in this country said the same thing, ‘If you want anything.
You want to manifest.
You just take off from work three days, get into your room and then just meditate on it
and then you will attract that towards you’.
Why?
Because physical reality and psychological reality are one and the same.
If you have a bad reality around you, you should take responsibility for it.
I thought them into existence.
Yes, it’s easy to blame it on others.
You cannot blame it on others alone.
Only one person you can blame it is yourself.
Second thing, every moment is new.
Every moment is new.
So far you have not manifested anything.
So far everything has gone wrong.
But you live in a brand new moment.
Every moment is new.
Don’t connect with the past or the future moment.
You can do everything that you want to do in this moment.
This is not a philosophy.
This is the truth.
Get rid of all your attitudes and live with utter positivity and you can structure a new
reality and as I said that we have thought everything into existence.
We have thought poverty into existence.
We have thought prosperity into existence.
We have thought turmoil into existence.
We have thought peace into existence.
It’s all from your own thinking process, not only in this lifetime, but also from your
previous lifetimes as well.
How can you change it?
How can you see change?
Your mind.
How can you change your thinking?
Prosperity is a state of consciousness.
Poverty is a state of consciousness.
When I talk to billionaires, I sit with them and talk to them.
All that they have in mind is how to make more money.
How can I make more money?
Don’t talk about God.
Don’t talk about consciousness.
My consciousness is just how can I make more money and this is all over the world.
I go all over the world, whether it is in Hong Kong or Switzerland, that’s a state
of consciousness, I do not judge them.
I am interested in the study of their own consciousness and then there is another set
of people who are not sure- I am sure- wishy-washy.
The wishy-washy attitude will create a wishy-washy life.
But these billionaires are committed to what they want to accomplish in their life and
I spent a lot of my time in the Universities and I know what the professors want there.
They want fame, publications- that is their attitude and I have also worked with a group
of people who have no money, absolutely no money.