Just as every action that emanates from us comes
back to us as reaction, even so our actions may act on other peole and theirs
on us. Perhaps all of you have observed it as a fact that when persons do evil
actions, they become more and more evil, and when they begin to do good, they
become stronger and stronger and learn to do good at all times. This
intensification of the influence of action cannot be explained on any other
ground than that we can act and react upon each other. To take an illustration from
physical science, when I am doing a certain action, my mind may be said to be
in a certain state of vibration; all minds which are in similar circumstances
will have the tendency to be affected by my mind. If there are different musical instruments tuned alike in one room,
all of you may have noticed that when one is struck, the others have the
tendency to vibrate so as to give the same note. So all minds that have the
same tension, so to say, will be equally affected by the same thought. Of
course, this influence of thought on mind will vary according to distance and
other causes, but the mind is always open to affection. Suppose I am doing an
evil act, my mind is in a certain state of vibration, and all minds in the
universe, which are in a similar state, have the possibility of being affected
by the vibration of my mind. So, when I am doing a god action, my mind is in
another state of vibration; and all minds similarly strung have the possibility
of being affected by my mind; and this power of mind upon mind is more or less
according as the force of the tension is greater or less.
Following this simile further, it is quite possible
that, just as light waves may travel for millions of years before they reach
any ovject, so thought waves may also travel hundreds of years before they meet
an object with which they vibrate in unison. It is quite possible, therefore,
that this atmosphere of ours is full of such thought pulsations, both good and
evil. Every thought projected from every brain goes on pulsating, as it were,
until it meets a fit object that will receive it. Any mind which is open to
redeive some of these impulses will take them immediately. So, when a man is
doing evil actions, he has brought his mind to a certain state of tension and
all the waves which correspond to that state of tension, and which may be said
to be already in the atmosphere, will struggle to enter into his mind. That is
why an evildoer generally goes on doing more and more evil. His actions become
intensified. Such also will be the case with the doer of good; he will open
himself to all the good waves that are in the atmosphere, and his good actions
also will become intensified. We run, therefore a twofold danger in doing evil:
first, we open ourselves to all the evil
influences surrounding us; secondly, we create evil which affects others, may
be hundreds of years hence. In doing evil we injure ourselves and others also.
In doing good we do good to ourselves and to others as well; and, like all
other forces in man, these forces of good and evil also gather strength form
outside.
Fill yourselves with the idea; whatever you do,
think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by
the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring
this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your
almightiness, your majesty, and your glory. Would to God no superstitions had
been put into your head! Would to God we had not been surrounded from our birth
by all these superstitious influences and paralyzing ideas of our weakness and
vileness! Would to God that manking had had an easier path through which to
attain to the noblest and highest truths! But man had to pass through all this;
do not make the path more difficult for those who are coming after you.
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