A good thought has three important applications:
1. It benefits the thinker by improving his mental body.
2. It benefits the person about whom it is entertained,
3. It benefits all mankind by improving the general mental atmosphere.
On the contrary, an evil thought has three important disadvantages.
1. It harms the thinker by doing injury to his mental bodv.
2. It harms the person who is its object,
3. It harms all mankind by vitiating the whole mental atmosphere.
Every evil thought is as a sword drawn on the person to whom it is directed. If you entertain thoughts of hatred, you are really a murderer of that man against whom you foster thoughts of hatred. A mind tenanted by evil thoughts acts as a magnet to attract like thoughts from others and thus intensifies the original evil. Evil thoughts thrown into the mental atmosphere poison receptive mind. To dwell on an evil thought gradually deprives it of its repulsiveness and impels the thinker to perform an action which emodies it. It is not sufficient that your thoughts are not bad. You must transmute bad thoughts into good thoughts. You must make them helpful thoughts. When they are sent out they must be capable of doing immense good and benefit to the suffering humanity and your neighbors. Thoughts are your own real children. Be careful of your progeny of thoughts- A good son brings happiness, name and fame to the father. An evil son brings infamy, discredit to his father. Even so, a noble thought will bring happiness and joy to you. An evil thought will bring misery and trouble to you, Just as you rear up your children with great care, so also you will have to rear up good sublime thoughts with great care.
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