You cannot think
powerfully of something without your thought taking a form. But
if you were to believe that this form was physical, that would
obviously be an error, yet it really does exist in the mental
world.
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When you have a thought, a well-made mental formation which goes
out of you, it becomes an independent entity and continues
on its way and it does that
for which it was made. It continues to act independently of you. That is
why you must be on your guard. If you have made such a formation and it
has gone out, it has gone out to do its work; and after a time you find
out that it was perhaps not a very happy thing to have a thought like that,
that this formation was not very beneficial; now that it has gone out,
it is very difficult for you to get hold of
it again. You must have considerable occult knowledge. It has gone out
and is moving on its way Supposing in a moment of great anger (1 do not
say that you do so, but still) when you were in quite a rage against someone,
you said: "Ah! couldn't some misfortune be fall him?" Your formation
has gone on its way. It has gone out and you have no longer any control
over it; and it goes and organises some misfortune or other: it is going
to do its work. And after sometime the misfortune arrives. Happily, you
do not usually have sufficient knowledge to tell yourself: "Oh! It
is I who am responsible", but that is the truth.
Note that this power of formation has a great advantage,
if one knows how to use it. You can make good formations and if you make them
properly, they will act in the same way as the others. You can do a lot of good
to people just by sitting quietly in your room, perhaps even more good than by
undergoing a lot of trouble externally. If you know how to think correctly, with
force and intelligence and kindness, if you love someone and wish him well very
sincerely, deeply, with all your heart,' that does him much good, much more certainly
than you think. I have said this often; for example, to those who are here, who
learn that someone in their family is very ill and feel that childish impulse
of wanting to rush immediately to the spot to attend to the sick person. I tell
you, unless it is an exceptional case and there is nobody to attend on the sick
person (and at times even in such a case), if you know how to keep the right
attitude and concentrate with affection and good will upon the sick person, if
you know how to pray for him and make helpful formations, you will do him much
more good than if you go to nurse him, feed him, help him wash himself, indeed
all that everybody can do. Anybody can nurse a person. But not
everybody can make good formations and send out forces that act for healing.
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