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this. What happens when one understands this fact? He will
experience less pain and more happiness and pleasure. One
does not need scriptures for that. Happiness will follow for sure
if he does just this much. Whatever effect one experiences is
going to be experienced by the others also, is it not? If you do
not perceive a good intent (bhaav) towards you, then do not let
such intent which hurts others arise within you. How can you
hurt others with what hurts you?
Thoughts
What are thoughts? When a tuber in the mind sprouts, the
sprouting is in the form of thoughts. You can read these thoughts.
Thoughts make you get up, sit down, do this, do that, make you
run around. Such are thoughts. Thoughts that do not make one
get up, sit down, or run around are considered tamed thoughts.
Thoughts that make you run around are not tamed.
The entity that complains from within is the mind; it is the
thoughts which speak from within, but these are thoughts that
you have stored from the past life. There are many thoughts that
do not arise within and that is because you have not stored
them. Only that which has been stored within will come out. So
only the thoughts one has stored will shout and complain.
Whatever one has stored has become established within; will
they not shout and complain?
If a thought turns bad it will leave a stain behind so do not
let it become bad and tainted (do not support it), this is all that
you have to understand. You have to be particularly careful in
this satsang that thoughts do not become bad. If the thought
becomes bad, everything will become bad. If you think you are
going to fall then you will fall. Therefore, do pratikraman right
away and come back to the Self. Our religion (Akram Vignan)
says to look for the positive in the negative. At night if a thought
‘this bed sheet is dirty,’ arises, then ‘we’ make an adjustment
right away by saying, “This bed sheet feels really smooth” and