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Social Harmony through change of thoughts

Today we find a lot of peacelessness and tension in our social atmosphere. The main reason for this is disharmony in our relationships. This disharmony is reflected in various forms like jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, violence, etc. So much selfishness has crept in our behaviour that all the times we are thinking and bothering about our own comforts, luxuries and gains, even at the cost of harming others. Thoughts in our minds affect us and our environment in various ways as enumerated below.

Effect of Thoughts
Whatever good or bad we think, the vibrations of these thoughts spread around in the atmosphere just like light and sound vibrations. Whoever comes in contact with these vibrations becomes charged temporarily with these positive and negative thoughts. This is the reason why we feel so pleasant just by sitting besides those who have good thoughts and feel constant restlessness by sitting besides the ones having negative thoughts.

Whatever we think, impressions of these thoughts constantly sink down in our subconscious mind in the form of sanskaras or latencies. If our thoughts are negative, then our subconscious mind is constantly bombarded with negative impressions which make me, the soul, impure, due to which negativity in us increases. So a vicious circle is formed which constantly increases disharmony in the atmosphere around us. This vicious circle needs to be cut to restore us to our pure state.

The most important effect of the thoughts is that they have the power to get materialized into physical conditions and circumstances are attracted to us accordingly. To quote an example, if you repeatedly have this negative thought and fear in your mind that you may develop a particular disease, your will find that the disease has actually started manifesting in you. So this is the power of mind or thought over matter.

Tackling negative influences
What about the negative thoughts, feelings and actions of others which constantly disturb us? The answer to this is the practice of Rajyoga Meditation. Through this, we can increase our soul power to the extent that these negative influences then cease to have any effect on us. We would have heard about the body surrounded by an envelope of subtle radiations from our body called aura. The more the soul power, the stronger and brighter will be the aura. If our aura is strong enough, the negative influences will not be able to pierce through it and therefore we will remain totally immune to the negative influences around us and our balance will not be disturbed.

Through Rajyoga, we can increase the soul power and counter the effect of any negativity on us. What is Rajyoga? It means connection with God. As soon as this connection is established, a fountain of peace, knowledge, bliss and power starts flowing towards us because God is the ocean of all these attributes. This happens in the same way as when a battery is charged by connecting it to a high power source. By connection with God, not only do I the soul increase my power, but also the impurities of my mind are washed away, making me pure. In this condition, only good thoughts emerge in me.

Easy Connection
But this connection with God should be maintained not only during meditation but in our practical life as well. The simple technique for this is that we should always feel the presence of God with us in whatever we do. We should involve Him in all our activities. In other words, whatever we do, we should be always holding His hand. Like a child who feels totally secure and light in the company of parents, so do we keep ourselves always with God. Only then, will God take our complete responsibility in His hands.

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