FROM SUCCESS TO FULFILLMENT

From Success to Fulfillment

Del Pe

How You Memorize and Store Information in Your Mind

There are energy compartments or memory banks in your concrete mind that serve as repositories of information or data. The grosser the thought, the lower the frequency at which it is stored. The more refined the idea, the higher the frequency at which it will be assimilated. I call these ‘mental diskettes’ or energy compartments.

Your mental aura and its energy substance need purifying and decongesting. This mental system is like the data storage unit in our computers. We need to purge unnecessary or obsolete data or documents to the recycling bin or trash regularly. There are also obsolete data from our younger years and previous training that have to be erased or purged when they have become irrelevant or obsolete. Then the new data and updated valid information should replace or supersede the old obsolete information.

People become so confused with conflicting information in their decision-making because early exposure to fairy tales, fables, parables and early limiting conclusions about life are still intact and competing with the more realistic adult interpretation of life. This is the internal tension in people who grapple with conflicting ideas of archetypal models of truth and their own repeated valid experience. They don’t know how to behave in expressing the higher truth currently perceived because of their great guilt and fear from religious beliefs or the influence of old learning patterns. This is true with sexuality, religion, parent-child relationships and husband-wife psychology. Many of my female clients experience their predicament – conflict among religious, cultural and parental upbringing, which are totally opposite of their current priorities and preferences. Mental programs and their memories should be upgraded and updated in order to solve these conflicts.

Memorized information is powerful data for the concrete mind and common sense. The faster and better you can memorize, the more data upon which to base decisions and deductions. The only problem is : what kind of data are you using? There is a saying, “Garbage in, garbage out.”That’s the danger, so we should be selective in what we read, learn and put into our memory. This includes visuals and inputs from TV, news, books, audio and video references.                                                     

(P. 134)

Go Extra Mile in Effort and Time

Mastery of any work or endeavor needs more time than normal and the force of disciplined will. In general, the thing you have done the best is what put more time, energy, resources and effort into with constancy and unwavering focus.

The most successful people are those who able to go the extra mile in effort and spend more time doing the most important things that bring the greater value to life.

 (P. 184)

Goals:

Your goals are just steps to long-term plans and it is not the end of the world for you if you do not achieve them. After you do your best, be detached to whatever results follow and accept them. It is your attitude, after all, that matters.

(P. 185)

Will Power & Vitality:

Will-power pulls people out of the past and pushes them to the future.

When people are low on vitality and will-power, it is difficult to be effective in life. It is also not easy to be pleasant when you have a low battery.

(Pg. 188)

Big sacrifices lie behind every great success; sacrifices of time, energy, effort, hard work, health and sometimes one’s personal preferences.

(Pg. 226)

The team that has a better chance of winning exerts extra miles of effort, energy and time in preparation compared to other teams.

(Pg. 227)

Sacrifice is not martyrdom. It is selflessness and service-orientedness, but intelligently applied.

(Pg. 227)

Identify your personal desires and preferences that need to be relinquished or changed because they are not supportive of your new priorities. These may include relationships or passion for a thing in the past that has sentimental value. Great personal sacrifices require courage, determination and commitment. This is where many people fail. They are very attached to the past, temporary possessions or relationships.

(Pg. 227-8)

Knowledge through the mind brings success. Wisdom through virtues brings fulfillment.

(Pg. 239)

Name of the Book:          From Success to Fulfillment

Author:                            Del Pe

Publisher:                        Manjul Publications

From Success to Fulfillment 

THOUGHT FORMS

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

Albert Einstein

The mind needs to be trained ‘how to think’. Without training it churns out thoughts after thoughts continuously which do not have much substance, tiring itself in the process. When trained it thinks fewer thoughts but more focused, carrying more substance, and also more effective. It may give rise to strong ‘thought forms’ which may affect not only the thinker but people at large. What are these ‘thought forms’, how they are formed and how they affect us? These significant issues are dealt in the book  ‘A Textbook of Theosophy’ written by the noted Theosophist C W Leadbeater. Some excerpts from the book on thought forms are as follows:-

 
“When a man thinks of any concrete object – a book, a house, a landscape – he builds a tiny image of the object in the matter of his mental body. This image floats in the upper part of that body, usually in front of the face of the man and the level of the eyes. It remains there as long as the man is contemplating the object and usually for a little time afterwards, the length of time depending upon the intensity and clearness of the thought. This form is quite objective and can be seen by another person, if that other has developed the sight of his own mental body. If a man thinks of another, he creates a tiny portrait in just the same way. If his thought is merely contemplative and involves no feeling (such as affection or dislike) or desire (such as a wish to see the person) the thought does not usually perceptibly affect the man of whom he thinks.

“If coupled with the thought of the person there is a feeling, as for example of affection, another phenomenon occurs besides the forming of the image. The thought of affection takes a definite form, which it builds out of the thinker’s mental body. Because of the emotion involved, it draws round it also matter of his astral body, and thus we have an astro-mental form which leaps out of the body in which it has been generated, and moves through space towards the object of the feeling of affection. If the thought is sufficiently strong, distance makes absolutely no difference to it; but the thought of an ordinary person is usually weak and diffused, and is therefore not effective outside a limited area.

“When this thought form reaches its object, it discharges itself into his astral and mental bodies, communicating to them its own rate of vibration. Putting this in another way, a thought of love sent from one person to another involves the actual transference of a certain amount both of force and of matter from the sender to the recipient and its effect upon the recipient is to arouse the feeling of affection in him and slightly but permanently to increase his power of loving. But such a thought also strengthens the power of affection in the thinker and therefore it does good simultaneously to both.

“Every thought builds a form if the thought be directed to another person it travels to him; if it be distinctly selfish it remains in the immediate neighbourhood of the thinker; if it belongs to neither of these categories it floats for a while in space and then slowly disintegrates. Every man therefore is leaving behind him wherever he goes, a trail of thought forms; as we go along the street we are walking all the time amidst a sea of other men’s thoughts. If a man leaves his mind blank for a time these residual thoughts of others drift through it, making in most cases but little impression on him. Sometimes one arrives which attracts his attention, so that his mind seizes upon it and makes it its own, strengthens it by the addition of its force, and then cast it out again to affect somebody else. A man, therefore, is not responsible for a thought which floats into his mind, because it may not be his, but someone else’s but he is responsible if he takes it up, dwells upon it and then sends it out strengthened.

“Self-centred thought of any kind brings about the thinker and most men surround their mental bodies with a shell of such thoughts. Such a shell obscures the mental vision and facilitates the formation of prejudice.

“Each thought form is a temporary entity. It resembles a charged battery awaiting an opportunity to discharge itself. Its tendency is always to reproduce its own rate of vibration in the mental body upon which it fastens itself, and so to arouse in it a like thought. If the person at whom it is aimed happens to be busy or already engaged in some definite train of thought, the particles of his mental body are already swinging at a certain determinate rate and cannot for the moment be affected from without. In that case the thought form bides its time, hanging about its object until he is sufficiently at rest to permit its entrance; then it discharges itself upon him and in the act ceases to exist.

“The self-centred thought behaves in exactly the same way with regard to its generator, and discharges itself upon him when opportunity offers. If it be an evil thought, he generally regards it as the suggestion of a tempting demon, whereas in truth he tempts himself. Usually each definite thought creates a new thought form; but if a thought form of the same nature is already hovering around the thinker, under circumstances a new thought on the same subject, instead of creating a new form, coalesces with and strengthens the old one, so that by long brooding over the same subject a man may sometimes create a thought form of tremendous power. If the thought be a wicked one, such a thought form may become a veritable evil influence, lasting perhaps for many years, and having for a time all the appearance and powers of a real living entity.

“All these which have been described are the ordinary unpremeditated thoughts of man. A man can make a thought form intentionally, and aim at another with the object of helping him. This is one of the lines of activity adopted by those who desire to serve humanity. A steady stream of powerful thought directed intelligently upon another person may be of the greatest assistance to him. A strong thought-form may be a real guardian angel, and protect its object from impurity, from irritability or from fear.”

Pages 63 to 67

“Any person who habitually thinks pure, good and strong thoughts is utilizing for that purpose the higher part of his mental body – a part which is not used at all by the ordinary man, and is entirely undeveloped in him. Such a one is therefore a power for good in the world, and is being of great use to all those of his neighbours who are capable of any sort of response. For the vibration which he sends out to arouse a new and higher part of their mental bodies, and consequently to open before them altogether new fields of thought.”

Page 68

“He knows that thoughts are things and that it possible to do great harm or great good by this means. He knows that no man liveth to himself, for his every thought acts upon others as well; that the vibrations which he sends forth from his mind and from his mental nature are reproducing themselves in the minds and the mental natures of other men, so that he is a source either of mental health or mental ill to all with whom he comes into contact.

“This at once imposes upon him a far higher code of social ethics for he knows that he must control not only his acts and his words, but also his thoughts, since they may produce effects more serious and more far reaching than their outward expression in the physical world. He knows that even when a man is not in the least thing of others, he yet inevitably affects them for good or for evil. In addition to this unconscious action of his thought upon others he also employs it consciously for good. He sets current in motion to carry mental help and comfort to many a suffering friend, and in this way he finds a whole new world of usefulness opening before them.”

Pages 182-183

Name of the Book:          A Textbook of Theosophy

Author:                           C W Leadbeater

Edition:                           First Edition, Fifteenth Reprint 2007

Publisher:                      The Theosophical Publishing House Adyar, Chennai 6000 

A Textbook of Theosophy