CHAPTER 5 Mental Body🔗

The mental layer is associated with the powerful emotion of guilt. Thoughts are much more powerful than we think they are. We think our thoughts can, at the most, affect only us. For example, we may think that if we have negative thoughts they can put only us into depression. Or when we are happy, we feel a positive outlook in our thinking for some time. But we don't understand an important thing: our thoughts do not affect just us, they affect everybody around us. In fact, our thoughts affect the whole world. We may not be able to believe this logically, but it is our collective thoughts that are responsible for every single incident happening in this universe.

Nothing is an accident. Nothing happens randomly. Because we don't understand the science behind what is happening, we call them incidents or accidents or coincidences.

COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

For this, we need to clearly understand these deep yet fundamental Truths about life that will change the very way we look at life.

First thing, all our minds are not individual separate pieces of the universe. They are all one and the same. All our minds are interlinked. Not only interlinked, they directly affect each other. This is what I call 'collective consciousness'.

Your thoughts are as infectious as your cold. People may escape from your cold. It is not so infectious, but your thoughts are so infectious, much more than your cold is. If you catch a cold from someone, you might suffer physically for a few days and then get over it. But when you catch thoughts from people, not only do you suffer mentally, but the suffering is also forever. Similarly, anything that you think affects the people staying around you. It affects not only those who are staying closely around you, but everyone living on planet earth.

Your intellect might resist, saying, 'How can this be true?' But the truth is, all of us are not different beings, or different minds. We are all totally interlinked, closely networked. Any of my thoughts can transform you; any of your thoughts can touch me. We are not separate individuals, we are not an island. There is only one whole thing - collective consciousness.

The second truth is that you are connected not only at the mental level, but even at the deeper conscious levels. The deeper you go, the deeper you are connected. We are all actually connected in the levels of all the seven energy bodies.

Now, in the physical layer, you, God and I can be represented as three different points quite far from each other, say 120 degrees away from one another. In the physical layer, the distance is so much.

If you come down a little to the pranic level, the distance is reduced. The three points come a little closer. If you come down deeper to the mental level, the distance between you and I is further reduced and so is the distance between you, God and I. When you travel deeper and deeper, and finally reach the nirvanic level, these three entities merge into one!