9. Camp Nine : Inconceivable power of Mind

Mind is the centre of human's extra-ordinary energy. There is nothing in this world which can not be achieved by mind. Immense is the power of mind. Its spread is untimited like the sky. In this earthly world, incidents likely to be impossible also have become possible and are becoming feasible by dint of mind. By the combination of subconscious mind and conscience, tremendous energy is originated. This extra-ordinary and miraculous combination of energy can bring a drastic change in any critical mental, physiological, social and economic circumstances.

In Mahabharat, there is a story. There was a hermit named Dirghtapa. He resolved to perform a yagna in a definite time period. He went in to a forest to gather the needed sticks of firewood, flowers and fruits for his yagna. Unknowingly, he fell into the deep waterless well. It was difficult to come out of that well at once. Before somebody would come to help him to come out of well, the predecided time of yagna approached.

So the saint performed the yagna mentally in the well itself and the deities approved his mentally performed yagna, as a result of which the sage attained the post of a deity. Any efforts done by the means of mind in comparison to that of done by the physlcal body gives fruits quickly and exactly. Hence Lord Swaminarayan has considered the worship of God mentally to be more important than external physical worship.

Every person should deeply meditate sitting alone in a solitary place for some time of the day regularly. Watch the thoughts emerging in the mind without giving any reaction neutrally. By doing so regularly for longer duration, mind become our friend, not only that but also all the egoism and ignorance developed to our mind are removed and reasonless mirth and selfless love spring from the heart. When the consciousness beyond mind is touched through mind, it is experienced to be wide-spread everywhere in the universe.

So says Brahmaji to Maharshi Vasistha in the text of Yogvasistha Maharamayana :

'A human bodied soul gets the fruits according to the efforts done by his mental body. The efforts done by only physical body never fruitful. lf mind ever broods over pious linking, all malicious experiments done towards him fail like arrows aimed at a hardrock. Mind can achieve within the moments whatever are aimed perfectly. O saint, Even though all the sentiments related to body may perish, the efforts done by mind bears fruits without any hurdles because effort is the alternate of only mind.'

Whatever is accepted by mind is always fructified and what is rejected never takes place. The English people ever consider the digit of 13 as unlucky, so all the related matters with 13 prove to be unfortunate for them. Whereas the 13th day of the month as per Hindu calendar is considered to be the most auspicious day which can never be questioned.

On Dhan Terash, we usually perform the auspicious worship of Goddess Laxmi. Whatever good or evil happenings take place in our life is the outcome of our mind, so it is needless to fill our mind with such imaginary beliefs or superstitions. We must strengthen our mind always by positive thinking. Our mind has a miraculous power of curing the diseases of our physical body. So says Maharshi Aurobindo : 'Give signals to your energies. They will make you healthy by operating inside your body.' It is our commonly shared experience that when someone becomes ill in the house, all the friends and relatives come to see him. All have a common consolation: Don't worry, you will be alright... By hearing such words frequently, the subconscious mind of a sick person gets the strong suggestions automatically for being cured. As a result he recovers soon. Sometimes adverse is the consequence. lf any friend creates the fear of a dangerous disease in the mind of the patient, he would slip into a serious disease from a very simple problem. Really a man is survived only by his mind.

In America, a professor in a medical college was explaining the students by showing culture of Cholera : 'Pupils, this culture contains that much germs that if it is thrown into the water of a dam, ten lakhs of people drinking that water would die of this disease.' One mischievous student said to the professor : 'Sir, you have professed us in medical psychology that our mind keeps us alive, so please drink this culture. lf your mind will be firm, you will not be affected.' Taking a pose for a moment, professor drank the culture, still he was hale and hearty. In next day news paper, while interview professor said:' It was a challenge to me. I strongly advocate that only the mind kills a man and it saves too. So I resolved firmly that even if I swallow this poisonous culture, I will be unaffected and the result is known to you-'Mind's inconceivable power is working in the foundation of prevailing healing treatments like Reiki and Pranic healing.

Dr. Bruner has done an extensive research in the subject of mind's power. He wants to say : Our mind is the physical form of our thinking power. It is made up of molecules named neutron. It does not bear any positive or negative charge. It has no electrical susceptibility, yet it is more powerful than electricity. This neutron influences the atmosphere of huge energy every moment. Our every thought or word leaves its unerasable impressions on the surrounding atmosphere. Its speed is more than the speed of light. It revolves round the earth seven times in a moment. Dr. Bruner says that you may believe or not but I have proved on the basis of my experiments that the selfless prayer done by a pure mind makes a deep effect on the atomic and molecular composition of the object. So some saintly person's blessings in the form of prasad or water has the real out burst of energy, and it yields expected result. This is not superstition, but a scientific fact. Whenever a prayer is done on water or eatable object, the energy thrown out of mind in the form of prayer gets condensed on the atoms and molecules of that object. It provides stimulus to the subconscious mind of that person consuming that prasad and gets the desired result. Dr. Baradak has taken the photos of the motion of mind being affected by prayer on highly sensitive photographic plate by means of capturing invisible but most radiant waves. Along with our physical body, our sentimental body is also connected with us in the form of aura. That body is highly affected by our thoughts.

There is a roaring ocean of consciousness around us. The whole world is fully engaged with this consciousness. Scientists coin it as ether. Our thought waves encompass this ether and create their forms which are known as thought forms. Every thought generates various waves of respective colours from our brain. The speed and longevity of those thought forms depend upon the intensity of thoughts. The shapes of noble thoughts are of good colours and of definite shapes. Very strong devotional sentiment is like a space-craft going up higher in the sky. The form of fearful anger is like dirty dark pink colour and of lightening shape. Love towards someone is of the shape of a bird having light pink colour. The selfless love towards all beings is compared to a light pink coloured sun. The waves of the thoughts send out only the forms of thoughts not the subject concerned. When a Hindu devotee is worshipping the God, the waves of his thoughts influence if any Muslim, his devotion towards Allah will increase and if a Christian would come under his influence, that would accelerate the irrepressible love towards Christ. Thus the provoker of thoughts would prove to be beneficial to the inneumerable surrounding people.

This deep science of mind is known as Para-psychology. Since last seventy years., Dr. J. B. Rhine has done an extensive research in this subject. The main founders of Theosophical Society - Madam Blevetsky, Charles Leadbeater and Lady Annie Besant have trodden a great deal in this field. In Russia as well, much has been done in the subject of Para-psychology. In the international conference at Moscow, a lady named Mibilova performed astonishing experiments related to the power of mind. Because of her concentrated attitude of mind, all the things on the table flew and came in her hands, the steel spoon would bend without touching, the candle would be lighted automatically. Uri Galler has displayed such experiments on T. V. screen. Nothing is surprising about it. All this is the only outcome of the immense power of mind.

Let us examine a historic illustration what a man's mental resolution power can do. A yogi named Kumargiri happened to come to the court of the emperor - Chandragupt Maurya. He declared - 'I can make all of you have the divine darshan (glimpse) of God whomsoever you devote.' With the permission of the king, the yogi created an imaginary world by his power of resolution and got the magnificent form of God seen by all. Except two persons in the court, everybody had that illusionary vision. The royal dancer Chitralekha and the chief secretary Chanakya Kautilya could not experience that vision. When the king asked for explanation, the yogi confessed that the illusionary world was created by my resolution power of mind. The persons with firm mind have no impact of the mental projection of others. That is why Chitralekha and Chanakya possessing rare personality had not experienced any impact of the yogi's performance and they could not fall victim to that false vision of God.