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Thought the Creator HUMAN thought always creates forms in the
mental world. It is a creative force. You are creating thought-forms constantly
and sending them out into the atmosphere around; they go abroad to do their
work. You are yourself surrounded always by such formations. No doubt there are
people who cannot think clearly; they form around them only a kind of whirl.
But they who think clearly and strongly create thought-forms that go out to
accomplish their task and return to the source. There are cases of people who
are troubled by their own formations that return to them or upon them as if to
possess them and which they cannot get rid of; they do not know how to unmake a
form which they make. When you have made a particularly strong formation, it
remains always linked to you; it comes back again and again hitting your head
and gathering force. In the end it becomes a necessity for you. There is a
whole world of mystery to learn in this matter. Men live in ignorance; they
have powers of which they are thoroughly unconscious or know very little. Buddhists, I mean those who are in the more
orthodox tradition, do not believe in God or an eternal Reality; they do not
believe in gods either, that is to say, in beings who are truly divine. They,
however, know admirably how to use the mind and the mind's power. The Buddhist
discipline makes you master of the mental instrument. A person following the
Buddhist discipline came to me once and said that he had made an experiment:
he had formed a being with his thought, he had created something like a
Mahatma. He knew and it is a proved fact that these mental formations after a
time begin to have a personal life, independently of the author,-although they
may be connected with him, yet they are quite independent, in the
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now he was facing a formidable difficulty. He said: "Do you know I have
formed my Mahatma so well that he has become a personality quite independent of
me and comes all the while to trouble me? He comes, scolds me for this and
that, advises me in this matter and that and wants to control my life
altogether. I am unable to get rid of him. I find it extremely difficult and do
not know how to go about it. As I say, my Mahatma has become extremely
troublesome. He does not leave me to be at rest. He interferes in all my activities,
prevents me from doing my work and yet I know it is my own creation and I am
unable to do away with it." He explained to me how he had tried to get rid
of the thing. I then told him it was because he did not know the trick. I
showed him the process and the next morning he came happy and beaming, saying
"it has left." He could not cut the connection; even then cutting the
connection is not sufficient, for the being would continue to live apart and
independent. What is needed is to re-absorb what one has created, to swallow
what has been put out.
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