There are many things waiting for us in the future. The future is a state of human awakening. Most of what we are doing here on earth is nothing else but sleeping under a big blanket, called the physical body. Very few people are awakened. Very few people can see. …
Buddha once said something very beautiful: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. All that we are is founded on our thoughts and formed by our thoughts.” Man pays very little attention to his thoughts, but it is his thoughts that are building his future existence. For example, whatever we are now is the result of what we thought in previous lives. If you don’t like this life and the way you are living, the way your body is, the way your emotions are, the way your mental equipment is built, do not blame anybody else because you built it in the past. Try to improve your present thoughts so that in the future you will have the best body, heart and mind.
It is very important that we control our future. In what way? By living in a way that will lead us to our future. For example, if you want to have a great mind in the future, you must work on your mind now. If you want to have a healthy mind, you must think healthy thoughts. If you want to have a beautiful physical body, you must perform only those actions, emotions and mental activities that are in harmony with each other, and this harmony will create a harmonious body in the future.
It is not a mystery now that our invisible electromagnetic sphere or etheric body is the conditioning factor of our physical body and that this energy system around us is controlled by our thoughts. For example, suppose you have a golden radiation, with beautiful hues in it. Then suddenly a thought of fear, hatred, or jealousy comes in and boom – it makes your sphere all black. Your whole electrical system is shortcircuited. All that we are and all that we are going to be is the result of our thoughts.
People are very careful about putting money in the bank. They say, “Twenty years later I will have 20,000 dollars.” But they do not think about what bank they are putting their thoughts into and what kind of thoughts they are putting into it. There is a more important bank than the bank where we are putting our dollars. In that bank you are putting all your capital; you are building the capital of your future and it will create earthly joys and heavenly joys. If you deposit material money and do not pay attention to your future becomingness, then you are losing whatever you build here. Your unfoldment of the future is like a garden in which you are going to bloom.
In esoteric literature, man is symbolized by a flower. Man radiates fiery flowers in his aura. For example, we are told that, when a person is unfolding spiritually, his head center looks like a lotus; another golden flower appears near his shoulder blades; another on his throat; and another between the eyebrows. These etheric centers are like flowers. When a person is really developed, which means flourishing and blooming, he is like a beautiful blooming tree.
When you have 200 blooming trees, then you have a garden. This is what M.M. means when He says that we should prepare our future garden by pure thoughts. Thoughts build the future. If your thoughts are really low-quality, you are going to be a low-quality person. If your thoughts are very high-quality, then you are going to be a great creative genius because that is what you worked for. Whatever you give to Nature, Nature gives back to you, as your bank does – and always with greater interest.
Christ once said that if you plant a fig tree, don’t expect cherries from that tree. If you plant a fig tree, you are going to harvest figs from it. If you plant a cherry tree, you will harvest cherries. If you plant creative, high-level, beautiful thoughts, you are going to reap a beautiful life and happiness.
When we talk about happiness and joy, we think that they are only feelings or emotions. They are not. Happiness means harmony; joy means greater harmony, symphonic harmony. Bliss means Divine harmony.
Harmony is created when your thoughts are pure, when your words are pure and when your emotions and actions are constructive and loving. When they are in conflict, you have chaos. Most of the time you create chaos in your own sphere. For example, you write a letter and say, “My dear friend, I really missed you. You are so beautiful; I really like you and want you to come back. We will go on trips,” etc. Then when you finish the letter you say to yourself, “My goodness, I really don’t like him, but one must write these things.” Suppose you have a friend with you and he asks, “To whom are you writing that letter?” You answer, “To a stupid person. He thinks he is something, but you know. …”
What did you do? With the letter you created a beautiful symphony; with your remarks you distorted that symphony and created chaos. Now there is chaos in your aura. This is why hypocrisy is not good – because it creates chaos. Lies also create chaos.
If you are living a double or triple life with your expressions, you are really creating chaos around yourself. When this chaos penetrates your subtle bodies – your mental, emotional, etheric and physical centers – you find yourself in a very unhealthy condition. You may blame everything else and everyone else except yourself, but you are the only one to be blamed because you created that chaos.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. From thought comes action. Try to guard your thoughts. Immediately when you start to think of something ugly, try to stop thinking that way. With your negative thoughts, you create a stagnant pool and then sit in it and drink from it. Always check your thoughts and see if they are pure. …
From Talks on Agni by Torkom Saraydarian
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