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Thought-Forms and Their Results · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We take the chatter in our minds for granted and do not attribute
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  any real significance or power to it.
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  Most of the time, the constant influx of thoughts is just a lot
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  of background noise. For the most part, when we
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  concentrate on something and focus the thoughts, we recognize
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  that we can actually accomplish something with thought.
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  But even then, we do not generally recognize either the
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  mechanism or the actual power of thought or the creation of
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  thought forms. A thought is a vibration that
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  goes out and moves through the universal ether.
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  A weak vibratory pattern may be disrupted or dispersed, but to
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  the extent that it is focused or combined with a force of will,
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  it may continue on. To the extent that a thought is
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  focused on a specific individual, it reaches out to
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  that individual and if he is receptive to it, will have its
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  influence or impact. To the extent that a thought is
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  more general, it may be picked up by those who have a general
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  receptivity to it. Thought does not only affect
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  other people and their actions, however, there is the impact of
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  thought on the body. We now recognize the connection
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  between the mind and the body and the potential impact for
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  health and Wellness of a positive thought strengthening
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  the body. We also recognize the power of
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  thought in terms of the fulfillment of desires for good
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  or I'll. Thought forms can be
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  systematically developed and powered by use of techniques
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  such as detailed visualization. For instance, athletic
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  competitors have learned the value of visualizing the race or
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  event they are participating in with detailed sense of how and
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  when they will respond and what position they take in the race.
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  Others have learned that visualization can move them into
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  a space that they find to be peaceful or uplifting.
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  In some cases, thought forms have an immediate result.
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  In others, they may take time to work out all the details in the
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  external world. For example, the power of
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  imagination, the visualizing of something not yet existent in
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  the physical world, may take decades or centuries to work
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  out. Consider that writers imagine
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  travel to and landing on the moon many decades before the
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  capacity existed. This thought form, however,
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  caught the imagination of receptive other individuals who
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  then worked out the methodology and over time the imagination
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  became a reality. Spiritual seekers frequently
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  utilized the power of thought to connect them to their spiritual
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  purpose and object of their aspiration.
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  Prayer, aspiration, consecration utilized thought forms to
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  enhance the connection between the seeker and the goal.
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  The power of the mantra is enhanced when the seeker focuses
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  on the deeper meaning or sense behind the sound.
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  The mother notes quote thoughts are forms and have an individual
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  life independent of their author sent out from him into the
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  world. They move in it towards the
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  realization of their own purpose of existence.
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  When you think of anyone, your thought takes a form and goes
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  out to find him, and if your thinking is associated with some
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  will that is behind it, the thought form that has gone out
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  from you makes an attempt to realize itself.
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  Let us say, for instance, that you have a keen desire for a
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  certain person to come, and that along with this vital impulse of
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  desire, a strong imagination accompanies the mental form you
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  have made you imagine. If he came, it would be like
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  this, or it would be like that. After a time you drop the idea
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  altogether, and you do not know that even after you have
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  forgotten it, your thought continues to exist, for it does
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  still exist and is in action independent of you, and it would
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  need a great power to bring it back from its work.
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  It is working in the atmosphere of the person touched by it and
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  creates in him the desire to come.
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  And if there is a sufficient power of will in your thought
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  form, if it is a well built formation, it will arrive at its
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  own realization. But between the formation and
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  the realization there is a certain lapse of time.
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  And if in this interval your mind has been occupied with
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  quite other things, then when there happens this fulfillment
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  of your forgotten thought, you may not even remember that you
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  once harbored it. You do not know that you were
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  the instigator of its action and the cause of what has come
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  about. And it happens very often too,
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  that when the result does come, you have ceased to desire or
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  care for it. There are some men who have a
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  very strong formative power of this kind, and always they see
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  their formations realized. But because they have not a well
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  disciplined, mental and vital being, they want now one thing
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  and now another, and these different or opposite formations
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  and the results collide and clash with one another.
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  And these people wonder how it is that they are living in so
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  great a confusion and disharmony.
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  They do not realize that it is their own thoughts and desires
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  that have built the circumstances around them, which
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  seem to them so incoherent and contradictory and make their
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  life almost unbearable. End Quote.
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  Reference. Srioro Bindu and the Mother
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  Powers within, Chapter 2. Power of Thought, page 9.