Your thoughts become your intentions

Once a big businessman heard about a self realised sage in Himalayas. He somehow reached there and served the sage for many months. After many months, sage was happy with his service hence he asked: “I am happy with your service, I can fulfill your one wish” He said : “I want the power to manifest. My business is not expanding as I want. I want my wishes to be fulfilled, so that after that I can focus on spirituality” Guru ji said: “OK, I can share that process with you, however there are some conditions otherwise it would not work.”

Businessman agreed and Guru ji informed him: “I will whisper a mantra in your ears. Chanting this mantra will gradually purify your mind and help you reach a mystical state near the source of creation for long hours. After coming back to normal state the first thought which will appear in your mind, if you will completely focus on that with intense emotions, it will manifest in your life.” Businessman was delighted and he learned the process with great sincerity. He returned home and started practising the mantra with the prescribed rituals.

Gradually he started mastering it and he started entering mystical meditative states but for very short durations, hence was unable to manifest. One day he spent long hours in that state and he felt immense bliss. After returning, he was so blissful that he forgot to focus on any wish. Next day he acted smart and kept a piece of paper to remind him to focus on his wish. After he returned to normal state, again he was feeling so blissful and complete in himself that he did not even look at the paper.

Third day, he did not even want to open his eyes, but when he opened his eyes, tears started rolling down his cheeks. He had realised his true self! He felt the immensity of who he really is…He started crying out of joy and felt immense gratitude for his Guru. He realised that all the things he wanted to manifest earlier were only inflated desires of his dissatisfied mind. Those were not really needed to live a happy life. He had the power of manifesting anything, but he was in absolute sense of completeness already, hence he never felt lacking anything.

Any desire to amend the current situation or consciously manifest anything was out of question, because he was in a witnessing mode and he was enjoying the life as it was. Rest of his life, he enjoyed each moment with sense of gratitude & satisfaction. Whatever was needed to maintain his blissful state, came his way automatically without even desiring for it. Universe only gives such powers to those, who are responsible enough to handle it. A restless mind can only attract chaos, hence only a calm & peaceful mind which can remain in thoughtless-ness for a significant time can have that focus to manifest anything.

When we feel lacking of something, that is what we are attracting in our lives. If we will be in sense of gratitude & satisfaction, we will attract more reasons to be happy. He says that is the reason, some rich people attract more & more wealth because they are in sense of gratitude & satisfaction. On the other hand some people are always dissatisfied and in complaining mode, they gradually attract bad luck and they sometimes loose it all.

I’m almost 65 years old now and I can tell you that you plan your life all you want, but is it really yours to own as an accomplishment or did you just follow whom you really are. That being this creation itself? Life is not meant for us to steal from, like some crook robbing a store. It is the journey you are born into for the sake of learning. I say this because the manifesting crazy is just another illusion that life can present in front of you. Please understand the life is not something where the goal is something at the end of a road that you can get to. You are the creation you want to take from. I say this so you understand that the gold is in the journey. You must be fully awake and taken and learn from all life throws at you — both bad and good, as each have huge lessons for us all.

Look at what you are calling yourself a curious person? then stay that way. The signs like this are everywhere. Example: I have tattoos that I placed on myself, not knowing their deeper meaning until later in life. Since I have been on the spiritual path for 48 years now, I never realized that I inked the answers on my skin. You just did this with Curious Fellow —get it now? Reality is an unknown factor except if one accepts the common sense approach that there is a world ‘out there’ which I exist within but only know through the perceptual input of my several senses.?

And these inputs are observed, somehow, as images and representations; pictures if you will, conceived in the brain by neural and synaptic associations and become the material of memory, reflection and consciousness. (But who or what does the observing?) Except an idea becomes an intent to be acts upon, it has no effect in the external world, such has we understand it to be. It must be followed by action to effect change externally. As you can see there are many variables and unknown factors between thoughts, intentions and desires. We often assume an understanding of these entities, but they are really guesses, opinions.

I can believe almost any thing but that does not maker it real or true. But that does not change the fact that such imaginary beliefs will not have a definite causal effect in my behaviour and consequently in the outer world, they most certainly will!. Religious folk believe in many ideas as articles faith. For them empirical factual information is unnecessary, they have the authority from elsewhere, usually in the form of a book or books that certain authoritative individuals interpret for them, and they accept as gospel.That is the nature of faith and its s not to be denigrated as many folk follow this approach in good faith, but for a materialist this will not do.

To sum up, if intent is not followed by action, it is empty, mere imaginary potential possibilities, and we all know these quite well because we are all capable of fantasy and imaginary escapades in our own lives. It’s an illusion a very individual one at that the only way to describe it. What you can do is empower yourself with those thoughts to make something happen. But outcomes may differ or will differ than the vision. There’s an equal and opposite energy to every thought and feeling that we may have but we have no control of. Randomness reigns in our life but why don’t we realise is a more interesting thought?Do you think such a powerful process can be easily shared with everyone? Can you imagine what would happen if it goes to wrong hands? People with wrong intentions will use it in all types of destructive ways. Only those are eligible who are pure at heart” Cheers!