A Master Message of the Ancient Rishis -7. Swami Krishnananda.

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Monday, May 23, 2022. 19:00.

Thinking the Cosmic Totality- 7

(Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.)

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From this very day, try to change your attitude. For this, you need not do anything with your hands and feet. You have only to think differently. 

What a marvel it would be for yourself and your whole life, the whole world, as it were. It would not merely be a benefit for you that you have brought upon yourself, but a benefit for the whole world. Enmity will cease in the international field. Miraculously, as it were, people will become friends without your knowing. A wonder will work in the world. Do not think that you have not got this strength. You have the power within you. Every one of us has this power because the infinity is speaking from within us. 

The whole ocean of existence is at our back. When we summon it, it shall come to us. We shall be the benefactor of all mankind and the whole world merely by thinking differently.

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Here itself, at this very spot, you can start thinking differently, and these forces of your thought shall be felt in every nook and corner of the world, like a telegraphic message or a telephone or wireless message. The impact of your thought shall be felt everywhere, and forces will tend towards you, flow towards you. The greatest sacrifice that you can do is to think in this manner, as a universal benefactor, as a friend of all the forces, and when this happens, when you regard yourself as a friend of all by not objectifying them, by not regarding others as things external to you, what happens? 

The Chhandogya Upanishad says at the conclusion of the Vaishvanara Vidya, yathāiha kṣudhitā bālā māmaram paryupāsate evaṁ sarvāṇi bhūtāny agnihotram upāsata (Chh. Up. 5.24.5): 

All the world will flock to you like children flocking to a mother. As hungry children sit around their mother asking for food, the world shall flock around you asking for succor Agnihotra here means the cosmic sacrifice that is made by thinking in this manner.

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Do not think you are small persons incapable of thinking in this manner, or that this sadhana is difficult. 

You are not small persons or incapable individuals. You have a great strength within you, and you are able to understand it, only a devilish misconception has entered into your minds, which spoils every one of your attempts. You have to take a strong stand at this very moment, and you know all this. It is so simple because it is absolutely in your hand. You have merely to think differently; that is all. You are not asked to do anything. You do not require money for this purpose. You need not be economically rich to entertain these thoughts in your mind. 

Are you poor in thinking? Are you a beggar even in your ideas? No.

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When ideas rule the world in the proper way based on this law of righteousness, it is called Rama Rajya. 

People have been talking about Rama Rajya, a new millennium, and so on. But all this cannot come by talks, conferences or lectures from the pulpit or by shaking hands. It requires a right-about turn of consciousness. At this very moment you can become gods in your thought at least, bringing peace to your own self and spreading waves of peace throughout the world, nay, throughout the whole cosmos.

  This is the Upanishads, this is the Gita, this is scripture, this is what dharma expects of us. This is what God would expect of us.

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So I shall reiterate this message that our humble endeavour from this very moment should be to think rightly, and not be under the false impression that you can exploit anything in this world. Exploiting things in any form is contrary to the law of God, of the world, of your own self. So never try to put another to use for your own purpose. You treat others as you treat yourself. It is not doing anything differently with your body, your limbs, your feet, etc. You have only to think differently. 

It is a master message of the ancient sages, by which you can be supremely happy even if you possess nothing materially or economically.

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It is from this point of view that Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj used to say again and again that even if you are clad in rags and sleeping on the road, roar like a lion as if you are possessor of everything in the world. 

What did he mean by this? How can you be so happy when you are clad in rags? 

It is because this happiness is not dependent on your clothes or the place that you sleep. It is in what you are, and not in what you possess. You can be happy, and you shall be happy. You are bound to be happy. We take a vow today that we must be happy, we ought to be happy, because to be happy is in our hands. Nobody else can make us happy; nobody else also can make us unhappy. 

It is entirely in our hands, and from this very moment may we, the children of God, invoke the grace of the Almighty for the benefit of all creation – sarvabhūtahite ratāḥ (Gita 12.4).

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