Creative Thinking

Most of us do not understand the creative power of our thoughts. The fact is that all our thoughts get translated into matter, literally becoming things. An ancient parable explains this concept very well.

Once upon a time a traveler sat under a tree, and went off to sleep.  This tree happened to be a kalpataru; a mythological, wish-fulfilling, divine tree. The traveler didn’t know that this tree fulfills desires immediately. After a long sleep, he woke up and realized that he was very hungry. He said, “I wish I could get some food to eat.” Immediately pots of delicious food appeared out of thin air. The man ate heartily and said, “Now all I need is a glass of water.” Within seconds a pitcher of cool water materialized. The man quenched his thirst and relaxed. Suddenly it occurred to him, “Where has all this food and water come from? Are ghosts playing a trick on me?” The moment he thought about ghosts, ferocious ghosts appeared. The man started trembling and thought; “Now I will be killed.” And sure enough he was killed. 

Our mind too is like this wish-fulfilling tree. Luckily for us all our thoughts do not materialize immediately. But whatever we think does materialize sooner or later. The truth is that like a spider, each one of us is caught in a web of our own making.  We may understand this concept intellectually, but don’t always use its power in our daily life. However, this process works in everyone’s life; unconsciously and automatically. If we don’t choose our thoughts, we create by default, because whatever we pay attention to gets created.

2,500 years ago, Buddha had said, ‘We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.’

My god-loving mother has her own way of making this point. She tells us that God knows only one word, and that word is 'Tathastu' or 'Amen'; in other words, 'so be it'. According to her, our thoughts are our constant, unconscious prayers to God. Whatever we think or say to our inner God, He utters 'Tathastu' in response. Thus our thoughts get materialized by Divine willpower. Now science has corroborated her simplistic theory by proving that our thoughts do possess an inherent creative power.

Mother Teresa had once remarked, “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones." The fact is that ALL our thoughts are prayers and all of them get answered. We choose our creations as we choose our thoughts.

This doesn’t mean that the moment you think of a house, it will be created, but your thought will definitely move the entire process of building a house into being. Your subconscious mind will pick up the signal and create conditions that resonate with your inner state of mind.