Master Key to Imagination Guide

Master Key To Imagination

Practical Spirituality Guide for Everyday Life

By Andrey Karra

This eBook is dedicated to my Eternal Teacher, Sri Tulshi Sen, for I am forever thankful for his wisdom and guidance in my path on personal development and spiritual growth,

and

to my family for their undying support and inspiration. Thank You.                   

The material contained in this guide is for informational purposes only and is meant to assist you in your study of reading “Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World” book and meditation on the four proclamations. I have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information herein. However, the information contained in this guide is presented without warranty, either expressed or implied. No part of this publication shall be modified or sold in whole or in part in any form, without the prior written consent of the author. The image of a flying man displayed on the cover of this guide is by Martin Stranka.

NOTE:SHARING THIS GUIDE AND SPREADING WISDOM AROUND IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. IT IS GOOD KARMA TOO.  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

... 3

Preface

... 4

Powering Your World with Your Imagination

... 5

Formatting Imagination Into A Vision - Part 1

... 12

Formatting Imagination Into A Vision - Part 2

... 19

Why Can’t We Hold A Vision And Manifest It?

... 27

Thinking Out Of The Box And Creating A New Vision

... 37

How Do I Expedite The Manifestation Of My Vision?

... 45

Inspiring Thought Is Mastering Life

... 55

Acknowledgements

Before you begin your journey into the amazing world of imagination, I would like to tell you the source of the information enclosed herein.

The contents of this guide have their roots deep in the abyss of time and have been embodied by the Masters and Sages that ever walked this Planet Earth before us.

I have spent countless hours gathering information from my own notes, transcribing audio recordings from various conference calls, seminars and webinars of my teacher Sri Tulshi Sen, the author of “Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World” book where he shares these secrets as he has received them from the Master who initiated him into the mysticism of the East and West.

The wisdom that you are about to be presented with is not to be taken lightly or read as a novel. Instead, imagine yourself sitting face to face with my teacher and just listen to the voice within you.

If you take time to internalize the principles contained within this guide you will change yourself forever and as you change, so the world around you will change as well.

These very same principles have touched me so deeply that they became the pillars of all success in my life.

It is my privilege to be a medium of this wisdom and pass it onto you in this guide. Here is to You and the Power within You.

Sincerely,           Andrey Karra   

P.S. If, at any point, while you are reading this guide, you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. You can best reach me on Twitter, or on my Facebook page. If you want to reach me in private you can email me at [email protected].

Preface

As the saying goes “The only constant thing in the Universe is change”. Change is Life and quite often change, whether physical and emotional, is associated with pain. As such, it diminishes the joy of life.

Master Key To Imagination Guide will empower you and have you equipped with a new ability to embrace the change, to overcome the pain, and to achieve any worthy ideal while enjoying life's beauty and wonder by utilizing a mental process of thinking.

Every living being wants not merely to move through life without a purpose, but to evolve - to improve - and to continue the development of one’s personal growth.

This development can occur only through the improvement of the quality of individual thought process and the ability to control it.

Individual’s thought has this incredible ability to tap into great Cosmic Intelligence and to attract from it that, which corresponds to aspirations, desires, and will.

Every thing you see around you that is not natural, but made by men, had first to exist as a thought, a vision in some human mind. Thought is constructive. Therefore, human thought is the spiritual power of the cosmos operating through men.

Master Key To Imagination Guide will take you through the process of how to use that power, and use it both constructively and creatively. In order for things and conditions to become realities, you must first create them in a thought form, which requires specific knowledge and practice.

Powering Your World with Your Imagination

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Some things we do automatically and we feel that we did not image it before we did it. It feels that way because we have turned that particular action of ours into a habit. We do not feel that image consciously, like when we eat or drive a car, or carry on an intense discussion with someone sitting next to us while driving and yet we image changing lanes, getting off on the right exit or getting off the highway, also imaging the final destination we will be arriving at.

Most of us live our Sundays in our Mondays imaging the work place and getting very tensed up. We seem to have lost our Sundays or holidays just by imaging what we have to do on Monday and that is imagination too.

Imagination dominates our lives. We seem to have this huge ability to imagine what we dread more than what we would love to do and to have. Why is that? How can we control this runaway imagination of dread and begin to control our imagination and imagine all the beautiful things we would want to do, to have, and to become?

That is what this chapter is all about and that is how you, dear reader, can and will empower your life.

What is imagination?

Imagination is thought. Every thought has an image. A thought without a vibrant image is a weak thought- a “may be” thought- the one we do not have confidence in or we really do not believe that it can happen. We do not believe our own thought and even collectively we hear people say "He was caught up in his world of imagination or he just lives in her own imaginary world and does not want to face reality”. That is when we allocate imagination into the world of fantasy.

How do we relegate the most powerful faculty of all - our imagination - to inferior position?

In essence, we deprive ourselves of the greatest power of the Universe that we have inherited from the Universe.

We stay small because we make our imagination an unimportant factor in our life.

Some of us consider imagination an impractical faculty. Imagination is our ability to make movies in our mind and play them, and then replay them over and over again. Enjoy it or dread it as the case may be. We can make it a romantic comedy or a horror movie. The choice is ours.

Do we really have a choice of what kind of imagining we are going to do?

The answer is yes and no. Yes, we can imagine what we want to imagine if only we gain control over our own mind and know how to imagine, what to imagine regardless of our present state of our circumstances, and even change the circumstances if we want to by imagining it.

Now, if we do not have proper control of our mind then we will be replaying tragedies over and over again instead of playing comedies and romances.

Imagination is images that we conjure up in our mind from our consciousness and the mind is supposed to play them on the screen of our heart. What usually happens is that the mind sensors imagination like a sensor board and says "Not allowed" or "It cannot be projected".

The reason why the mind rejects it is because the mind cannot find the reference number of the movie in its files and it does not allow it to be shown. The reference number in this case is the reference in the memory bank of our mind.

As long as our imagination is under the control of our mind, we are not allowed to imagine freely and we are only permitted to replay our old movies filed away in our memory bank. Any new movies we make must follow the same pattern and the same ideas as the old ones. That is why we live in the same kind of environment every day and we have gotten used to it. In fact, some of us have developed tendencies to live each new day the same as yesterday.

We cannot live or be, or do, or have what we cannot imagine.

It is as simple and as plain as that. We have to realize this fact and accept it before we can take action to take back control of our lives and imagine what we want to imagine, live in our imagination, and manifest fun and plenty. It is safe and comfortable to replay the old movies of our lives and create endless sequels and carry on.

For what? We really do not know. Everybody wants to be happy but what happens is that we live a life of constant dread and overcoming the dread each day is not being happy - it is just being comfortable. It is a comfortable proposition.

This is why we seek success. This is why it is important to empower our life with the greatest faculty that we have been given - imagination. This imagination will be ours today and for eternity. So let's begin to take back control of our life and our destiny. Let's study imagination.

What have people spoken about imagination? One of the excellent references is one of the greatest men that ever lived in modern times, the greatest scientist who changed Newtonian principles - Albert Einstein. He is more than a great scientist, he is a thinker. Here is what he said about imagination:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge,

for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world

and ALL there ever will be to know and understand." In essence what is he saying?

He said exactly what most people do not believe in - we think knowledge is more important than imagination. However, his statement proclaims exactly the opposite. Then it explains what knowledge is, as it is limited to what we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, the whole Universe, and ALL there ever will be to know and understand.

Knowledge is our past, imagination is our future.

That is why we play the old movies of our imagination over and over again. To corroborate Dr. Einstein’s saying we would have to go back to the Sanskrit texts thousands of years ago where it says "Gyana habandha", which when translated, means - Knowledge Limits. Knowledge is important but it also hinders progress.

Our previous knowledge would not have permitted us to think of the internet, which is common knowledge now. However, someone imagined internet and now we are able to share and distribute our thoughts with the speed of light around the entire globe thanks to imagination at work. Imagination is the source of knowledge.

What we imagine, vision, and manifest now becomes knowledge later.

That is why Dr. Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the power of the artist with which he creates art and then scientists come along and explain how that art was created, as that is the region of science. Science is the knowledge, which the artist has imagined. That is why the creator of this Universe is often called - the great artist. All of this may sound a bit mystical at this point to you but you will see a bit later how this piece of information will help you take back control of your imagination from the kludges of the hard herded mind that cannot laugh.

If you ever watched TV series “Star Trek” you would remember a character called Mr. Spock. He was intellect, he could not laugh, he could only calculate and he was very good at it - he had no emotions. The intellect does not have emotions and living at the Spock’s like existence has become our habit.

Imagination is the beginning of visions.

First, we imagine and the source of imagination is intuition. I know, the moment I mention the word intuition, it immediately raises doubts in your mind, doesn’t it? Most of us define intuition as the reason for the paranormal. We see intuition as gut feelings that cannot be relied upon. We usually use intuition if we do not see any other practical solutions.

However, at this point we must know what intuition is because we want to know the source of imagination. It is a bit confusing but we must get a clear understanding of the intuition to know the source of imagination. The cave from which the river flows in the dark regions of the mountains is the source of the river.

It flows out in a trickle and flows out for what?

To offer itself to the ocean of life. The goal is to merge back into the great life after having traveled through plains and mountains and valleys. When the river comes out of that cave it rushes out with one single goal in mind-to merge with the ocean and to become the ocean. On its path through hills and valleys and plains it nourishes the land. Animals come to it, bathe in it, and drink in it. Fish grows in it. People come and thrive because they have the river.

When the river passes by, it gives and gives but it is not attached to anything. It flows onwards growing food, building towns and cities but taking nothing for itself. Its entire purpose is to bestow happiness to everything that it passes by. That is pure imagination. We imagine loving. Loving is bestowing happiness on others.

However, we have to believe in our imagination. When it reaches the ocean, this imagination-the river- becomes the ocean. We cannot separate the water of the river from the water of the ocean when it merges with the ocean.

Intuition is the dark cave from which the river is waiting to break free to merge with the ocean. In the darkness of the cave it engaged in deep meditation to see the vision of the ocean.

Intuition is not paranormal.

It is not gut feelings. It is definitely all that to those who do not recognize intuition. Intuition means inner tuition, teachings from within. Even when we say "I have a gut feeling", we intuitively know what we are saying. It is in our guts or our abdomen where our abdominal brain is located, which regulates, runs, and drives all the involuntary actions of our body.

The food you are digesting now is being done by the abdominal brain. Every breath you are taking to live-you are not consciously aware of breathing. That too is being done by your abdominal brain, which digests the food, realizes the enzymes, and does millions of actions every second in your body.

You are not even conscious of those vital actions without which you would not even be able to live, nor could you read this very text.

Intuition is the voice of consciousness, the voice and not the chatter of the mind that constantly tells us what we need and what we cannot do. This voice calls us to action to bring us back home to the ocean. This voice takes us where we have never been before. This voice wants to frolic, to play and to laugh, to love and to give, and wants us to live a fantastic life. This voice does not know limitations and this voice is madness to the mind.

It is the wisdom of the Universe and so it is the foolishness of the mind.

Let me quote St. Paul, a very astute man, who puts it very clearly. He said "The wisdom of God is foolishness with man". There it is - the wisdom of God, or the Universe, is foolishness with man. And to corroborate that fact, Solomon a few thousand years ago said "Trust in God with all thine heart and lean not upon thine own understanding".

Listen to it, believe in the Universe, your intuition, your inner teacher, the voice within with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding.

Isn't it a crazy idea for practical people?

Intuition is gut feelings only because it has not been used. We are not familiar with intuition. Most of us suffer from intuition entropy, just like if our arm is put in a cast for 4 or 5 weeks and when the cast is taken off we cannot use that arm easily right away. It is entropy. We need to loosen up. So, how do we loosen up? By practice. We have to let loose our intuition, listen to our intuition, and regain our right to imagine out of the box, as the world would say. We are stuck in the box of our mind. Intuition is our relief from that box. Then we can imagine from out of the box.

The mind has boxed us in and we are so uncomfortably comfortable with our life with no real imagination.

We think we have imagination but we do not permit ourselves to imagine. It is a life we really get ourselves in- the life of eating, sleeping, and dreading with a few distractions, which we call pleasures.

We live day after day, week after week making resolutions for New Years but do we really want to be happy? Are we willing to make the sacrifice to be happy? There is actually no real sacrifice, really.

You see, what we end up doing is we let the movie makers do our imagination for us and we pay $9 or $12 to see the movie because we cannot live without imagination. So, we watch TV. When there is nothing to do, we watch TV because we want to live with pictures that somebody else is showing us. This is a substitute for our frozen imaging faculty.

Intuition is the source of imagination.

Deep down inside us is the urge to be someone or do something, to feel what we have never felt before, aching to come out in the form of our imagination.

How do we let it out? By quieting the constant chatter of our mind and when we have done that, we will hear clearly the calling of our consciousness for us to form the vision of our life from the core of our being, our divinity.

Most of the time when imagination comes out of our intuition it seems to be corrupted by our reasoning, which is the memory bank of our mind and its constant chatter. So we relegate that imagination to the area of fantasy and that is exactly what Albert Einstein stressed "Imagination is more important than knowledge". If he did not imagine what he had invented and discovered, we would still be living in the dark ages.

The book “Ancient Secrets of Success For Today’s World” clearly refers to higher reasoning and lower reasoning in the form of pure thought and impure though in chapter 10 (page 75) under the cross header.

Two Kinds of Thought

“In the Amritabindu Upanishad from the Vedic text, it says there are two kinds of thoughts, Unconditioned thought and Conditioned thought. Literally translated, it reads as Pure thought and Impure thought. Purity and Impurity in this context does not refer to morality and immorality. It defines the quality of thought, defined by the source of the thought. If the thought evolves out of conditions, past and present, it can only be conditioned thought. It is conditioned thought which the Ancients termed as impure thought; tainted by conditions. Conditioned thoughts are generated from the senses and are driven by the senses.”

When the mind is trained and our Consciousness is liberated from the senses, Unconditioned thought naturally arises.

The book also gives step by step instructions to liberate the mind from its dependency on the senses, so it can obey the commands of our consciousness, and develop the ears to listen to intuition filtering out the chatters of our external world. Finally, it gives the meditations to conquer the fears that hold us back to imagine. Sometimes we really fail to imagine great things.

The book gives the ultimate meditation, which will liberate the mind from the shackles of the senses and then you will be able to listen to your heart and create the vision for your life from the freedom of your imagination.

Imagination is the first step to visioning. The book then gives the 3 steps towards manifestation of the vision and clearly explains how to do it. We have to understand that we cannot even form a vision without first having imagination for it. We must power ourselves with liberated imagination to form a true vision for our life of what we want to be today, this year, and afterwards that we have come to live and to cherish.

You did not come into this existence to endure a living but to live in ecstasy.

I know, the word ecstasy releases immediate rejection for our mind and tells us “Come off it, be satisfied with what you have got, and just do not overdo it”. Isn't it exactly what we have been discussing? The mind is like a bird that has been locked up in a cage for a long time where it is so comfortable in its confinement, its home of limitations, and it is scared of freedom, for its ecstasy is almost an unachievable goal. This sort of feeling prevails in all of us when we engage ourselves in building a life of freedom. When we are told to imagine by our intuition our inner teacher tells us what to do.

Whenever we move to live to be happy we should not be on guard in case we get caught up in our past. We are not running away from our past. The past is like a river. It cannot flow backwards. Our life cannot flow backwards. Our life is like a river. Imagination is like a river, imagination is our life. We see before we do so.

We live on the leftover imaginations. Life is a river.

When we dam it and then release it, the river produces energy that powers cities, factories, the whole world. We know that we can be whatever we desire to be. We can have whatever we want to have and we know it is our right to feel ecstatic. When we want to feel it we do not require anybody's permission to live a euphoric or an ecstatic life. We have come here to celebrate life. So why postpone it? If we have a tendency to postpone it, then I hear the bird in the cage. So let’s stop wasting our Sundays anymore by living in our Mondays.

With the practice of meditations on the four proclamations given in the book and finally the ultimate meditation you will gain back your intuitive faculty and your imagination. You will control your mind and you will control your life.

We have come into this world to experience what we have never experienced before. We have all the power to be whatever we want to be. The mind does not want to agree with that.

That is the chatter of the mind and you should definitely make your mind understand that you are the Master of your mind and your imagination comes from the Universe. If you live it you will manifest it. Power yourself with imagination and live free.

Formatting Imagination into a Vision - Part 1

There comes a time in a person's life when he sees that whatever is happening around him is going on inside him. He feels that he has lost control of his life because he cannot control his circumstances and all the activities that are taking place in his environment. He also knows that this world around him and the world that he has lost control of is really out of control because he cannot control what is happening inside.

Most of us do not consciously link what is happening outside us to what is taking place in our mind or inside us. We always have to be conscious of that.

Occasionally, we look back and see what we were thinking about. Most of the time we do not even realize that we are in the worry mode. We cannot think about what we would like to be, to have, and to do but we think about what we would like to avoid. We are constantly battling against our circumstances and visioning future apprehensions by becoming “Masters of worst case scenarios”. Isn't that what most of us do - envision worst case scenarios?

Do we even vision the best case scenarios?

What is happening inside people is nothing but a runaway imagination like a runaway transport truck down a steep slope on an icy road with no brakes. We do have a powerful imagination but our imagination is out of control. Imagination is the power with which we create. This power is like fire. It can warm our body on a cold night. It can cook a delicious dinner to nourish our senses and the body. This fire can also cremate the same body.

Imagination is the greatest human faculty that we have been gifted with. In the previous chapter we have discussed the relationship between knowledge and imagination as understood by Dr. Albert Einstein. What did Einstein say? I think everyone should burn it in their memory. "Imagination is more important that knowledge" he said. Let me repeat this.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge,

for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world

and ALL there ever will be to know and understand."

Most people, if not consciously but subconsciously, put knowledge before their imagination. They do not realize that imagination is the progenitor of knowledge and Einstein said it clearly.

Mind is simply our memory bank for already existing knowledge.

If we depend on our hard drive for all future work, we will not be able to create anything. Hard drive is the knowledge. It has got all the memory.

Knowledge is our past experiences. Knowledge guides us but cannot lead us.

Knowledge will show us what we have imagined in the past, formed a vision of with that imagination, and manifested in our life good or bad. Knowledge also shows us the value of imagination in our life.

Knowledge limits and constricts our imagination. We also know that knowledge is power. Now, come to think of it, knowledge is not power but the use of knowledge is power. Imagination, the power with which we create our vision, comes from our intuition. Intuition is our inner tuition, the teacher within our consciousness, which speaks to us with a crystal clear voice that surfaces amidst the chatter of the mind.

We want to listen to it and our mind does not want us to do so. It corrupts our imagination and tells us that it is a fantasy. We know the consciousness creates and we know that all imagination flows from our consciousness. To understand that, we must meditate on the four proclamations over and over again. It transcends all knowledge. It helps you release your imagination to be creative.

Man's purpose in life is to create and the basis of creation is imagination.

To train the mind to prevent it from corrupting our imagination, the four proclamations are given. Corrupting our imagination into a fantasy, the mind aborts imagination before it can be ordered into a vision. No amount of theory can train the mind. You can read all the books in the world and attend all the seminars in the world on the subject but if you do not train your mind through the proper way, it will only remain with you as knowledge. It will become forgotten.

It is the meditations and proclamations that will discipline the mind to hold a vision. I will give you some exercises to cultivate your power of imagination. We will learn to imagine and then order that chaotic imagination to turn into a vision. Imagination flows out like a river from the cave of our intuition, which is the absolute. Imagination comes from all directions. It is chaos. It does not come in order.

Then we order this imagination, put it in the right place where we use our higher reason, not the reason that it is not practicable, but reason to fit our imagination in its proper sequence and paint a vivid picture of what we see. We make the chaos into a cosmos. Cosmos means to set in order and harmony. Then we can create our vision. We must learn to imagine and control our imagination to control our life.

When we realize that our outside will always be the same as our inside, and when we can control our inside, only then we become successful.

I will repeat this to you again, when we realize that our outside will always be same as our inside, we cannot have an outside different than what is inside us.

So, when we realize that our outside will always be same as our inside and when we can control our inside (controlling the inside can only be done by meditation on the four proclamations and the four steps of visioning), then we have become successful.

To arrive at this state you need to practice assiduously. It is like learning to walk. You will stumble, we all stumble. Who has not stumbled? You must get up again and again and keep at it until you have trained your mind not to rely on external.

The mind must be trained to completely rely on our consciousness, on our inside. We also, at the same time, must be able to control our inside to think the thoughts we want to think, thoughts in pictures. Imagination is the picture in motion. We must not give up. If we give up, what have we left? That is what most people do. Ah, I will keep on doing this the way I am doing it day after day, after day, after day. Also, we must keep at it no matter how many times we have failed.

Eventually, the mind will give up. It will submit to you and will listen to you. Then you can control your inside.

The following story is in the book but I am going to tell you this. Our mind can make us imagine what we do not want to imagine. All of us must have gone through this. We imagine all the time. Also, we try to imagine what we do not want to imagine but we do imagine things around us. We have to train our mind and the training must be done through the system given by the Ancients, which is distilled for us, for our use in the book. The following story - think about it, but first, just travel with me for a little bit in this story.

There was a small village far away from anywhere with no access road to the nearest town. There lived a farmer, a poor farmer. He had nobody, no family to help him to farm. He was all alone. In the heat of the summer day he had to go to town to buy seeds for his next crop. He had to walk with a sun beating down on him to his heart. Think of this as your journey through life.

Half way to the town the farmer saw a beautiful tree with long and strong branches fulfilled with rich green leaves. At the base of the tree trunk there was a

pond and the shade, which challenged the scorching sun. The farmer decided to rest there for a while. As he was dosing at the shade, resting at the base of the tree, he thought “If I could have a cold glass of water it would be great”. He did not realize that he was sitting under the wish fulfilling tree.

Before he knew it, he saw a refreshing glass of water before him and he thought "Wow!" He quenched his thirst and wished "If only I could have some sweets and some food". Shortly, he saw a banquet before him. After having the meal of his life, he thought "If only I could have a bed to take a nap".

He was lying on the most comfortable bed before he could even speak the thought completely. He immediately thought "If only I had a house to sleep in on this comfortable bed" and the house was there before he knew it. The fulfillment of one wish led to larger and larger wishes. Before he knew it, he wanted the most beautiful woman as his wife and plenty of children to help him on the farm and there he was surrounded by his family and wealth.

When he saw what he got just by wishing, he got a little worried. As a matter of fact, he got worried a lot. He thought "What will happen if now a ferocious man eating tiger comes out of the jungle and eats me up?" A ferocious man eating tiger appeared and ate him up. He was still sitting under the wish fulfilling tree. We move and have our being under the wish fulfilling tree. This tree is your consciousness.

It is individualized cosmic consciousness, the same power that created this magnificent Universe, which cannot be comprehended by our mind, let alone by our brains. This power works. It will not judge the wishes. It will only fulfill them instantly.

Everything, all circumstances and every condition in your life within the past or in the moment was brought to you by your thoughts on this wish fulfilling tree.

We must train our mind not to fall for that. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Right now, I am going to give you a few exercises for imagination. You need to understand several points discussed below.

Controlling imagination is secondary.

First, we have to learn to imagine. These exercises are called imagination stimulation exercises. Before you can vision, you must have imagined what you want. We have to loosen up our capacity to imagine. That is the first thing that we have to

accomplish. Most people's faculty to imagine has been atrophied and has gone stiffed. We have stopped imagining. If we imagine at all, we imagine what we do not want to or what we want to avoid because our imagination have not been used. Imagination, if used at all, is for worry.

Worry is imagination.

You have to make a list of what you want immediately.

Step one. Take a piece of paper and make a list of what you want immediately. Most

people, however, do not know what they want. If you ask them "What do you want?", they get agitated with you. It is because they have no answer. If there is an answer at all, they will tell you what they do not want.

To make a list of what you want, I am going to give you some guidance on how to develop relationships, have a job promotion, go on vacation or having a soul mate, a new automobile, a new condo or a house, or family life.

Think of some other things like business or professional accomplishments whether you want to write a book, travel around the world, find romance in your life, help making your children successful and making them financially secure. Think about financial security for yourself, building self-esteem, or being a public speaker.

There is the whole list of other things that you can think of. I just gave you these to actually stimulate the list that you can have. Mind you, I may have missed a lot but you must make a list of what you want immediately. Let's write down the points. We do not have to go into elaboration of each point right now.

Step two. Pick one item you want each day from the list. You can have as many as you

want. Do not restrict yourself. Do not let your mind stop you from making the list because at that specific moment it may feel like a fantasy to you. Do not fall into a trap of “I'll do it later” mentality. If you truly love yourself, you will do it. You will not do it for me or anybody else. You will do it for yourself. Make a list. Let your feelings loose and let go, let it happen.

We cannot allow our imagination to be boxed in- in the dungeon of limitation of our past conditioning.

Take a piece of paper and write it, write the list. Treat it as a game but do not fake it. We cannot concentrate on the lie. That is why the book was written to show you the truth that your imagination is the basis of all creation. Your imagination is the same imagination with which the Universe was created by the creator. The book tells you over and over again what the Ancients tell you “As the Macrocosm, so the Microcosm, and as the Microcosm, so the Macrocosm”. This way they tell you “As the Universe, so the Individual and as the Individual, so the Universe”.

You are the spark and the Universe is the blaze. Each spark has the same power of combustion, the same ability as the blaze and it can also develop a blaze. So make a list. The sole purpose of this exercise is to loosen up your capacity to imagine.

Step three. Every day without fail set aside five to ten minutes after your mediation on

one of the proclamations. Never fail to meditate on the proclamations as it is explained in detail in the book. Take one of the items on your list and start imagining. Keep a notebook or a journal and a pen handy.

Start imagining from anywhere, which means you do not have to imagine going on a vacation by beginning with a plane ride or a train ride, or buying a vacation package from a travel agency. If you want a luxury condo you do not have to start by buying it to start seeing yourself sitting in your study or living room entertaining guests and let your imagination fly all over the place.

Your imagination must engage all of your five senses. You should be able to see everything in three dimensions and full color. You should be able to smell everything because everything has a smell.

A house has a smell, an automobile has a smell, even vacation has a smell. It is that salty air from the ocean or the smell in the Caribbean. It has a nice smell, smell it! You should be able to touch and feel what you want like a house or a relationship, or your children’s embrace, or your condo's floor, or walls, or rugs. You will be able to even taste the air in the condo or the vacation, or the automobile. You will hear the sound of the vacation or the waves of the ocean, the voice of your companion, the steps in your new condo, the sounds of your children’s voices, and the rustle of your soul mate’s clothes.

Let your imagination create the raw footage of your movie that will be edited by you later to make the vision, which is ordering your imagination into a vision.

Step four. Time your imagination sessions and if necessary set the alarm clock or set the

timer. You must discipline your mind. If you feel that your imagination is not showing as you want it to do, do not stop it. Do not stop the session. Sit on that chair or wherever you are and say "I will stay here for the duration that I have allocated myself whether it will be 5 or 10 minutes". You will see that you disciplined yourself.

Your mind will give up and then you will enjoy this reverie but do not go over your allocated period. If you say 5 minutes, keep it for 5 minutes. If you leave it, do not continue with it. Get up and go, and do whatever you have to do. You will see that it will be with you throughout the day and you will see how your imagination is losing up. Remember, your imagination has been atrophied or gone stiff out of misuse or nonuse rather. Do not go over your allocated period ever, even if you are enjoying the ride of your imagination. When the time is up, just get up and go about your daily work.

Next, try to have imagination sessions during lunch time and then before your go to bed but every time after your meditation on the four proclamations or whichever one proclamation you are meditating on. This will absolutely give you control. It will give you control over your own mind. Remember, the mind makes you and the mind breaks you. Thus, the four proclamations will give you control over your mind. You will then get intuitive instruction and you will get ideas while you are having your imagination sessions. By the way, do not ever skip your imagination sessions. That is a date with yourself, date with your life. This is romancing with life. Even if it feels funny, just do it. Once you have done it for about a week, then you will understand the value of it.

After you do that, make sure that whatever ideas come, you write them down. Make sure that you write them down without any delay. You will get lots of ideas, mundane or exciting. It does not matter. These ideas, however mundane or exciting they may be, write them down. I can assure you, you will not be able to remember them. Just write everything down in you journal as it comes and do not try to edit it.

Do not try to modify it. Just write it down even with your eyes closed. Write it down, scribble it fast because while you are writing the mind will try to edit and modify it to soothe itself. Remember, you are loosening up your imaginative faculty. Just write what comes to you.

Do not share the ideas or imagination sessions with anybody.

It is for the benefit of those people who are around you, whom you love, for the benefit of whom you are doing it for.

Silence is power.

This exercise is called "Living in Reverie". A reverie is awaking dream. Awaking dream is a vision. Visionaries are the architects of the Universe. We have to learn to dream and live our dream. When we consciously choose to discipline ourselves to let our imaginal hair down and let ourselves go to the regions, the distant regions of imagination that we have never been before, we will have a blast. We loosen up, we lighten up, we turn into laugh and smile, and then we can dream the impossible dream. As the song goes in the South Pacific:

"You have to have a dream. If you do not have a dream,

How are you going to have a dream come true?”

This is absolutely intuitive that you learn to imagine. This is such an important factor in your life. It does not matter whether you are a CEO of a company or you are running a family. All you have to do is vision but you cannot vision if you do not have imagination. People need hope and vision. A great leader cannot have his followers filled with anxiety. When we do not have a vision, that is when anxiety picks up. The whole idea is people have to be able to develop their vision and what they need is the power to vision.

There is a section on imagination on page 48 in the book. In the third paragraph, it says:

"To train the mind to believe that we create out of No-thing is our mission in life. We must face the trials, tribulations, and seeming challenges of our daily existence with the knowledge that we create from No-thing and we require no pre-existing materials to manifest our desires. The challenges that besiege us are gifts though they appear troublesome.

Each time we overcome them we come closer to our real Self, our Consciousness, and come closer to the idea that Consciousness produces the circumstances and the materials required to meet and overcome the challenges. Each time we accomplish a Vision by creation, we become more aware of who we really are; we also become more confident in of our Divinity.”

Formatting Imagination into a Vision - Part 2

In the previous chapter we discussed that imagination is the foundation or the raw footage of the vision of our life and it comes in a chaotic state. Organizing it is a vision. So, what is a vision and what is imagination?

Where does imagination come from since life is centered around imagination and vision? A vision means sight. What we see is our vision. We can have a clear

vision or we can have a fuzzy vision, or a hazy vision. We often say "He has a 20/20 vision". That means he can see clearly. A vision is an organized imagination on a particular aspect of our life. How do I see myself as a man, a woman - that is a vision of me? How do I see myself as a father or a businessman, or a teacher, or a coach? As a man, what do I see?

Do I see a strong man or a mediocre man?

Do I see a Hercules who can overcome obstacles? How do I see a man who buckles under in the face of obstacles or runs from obstacles? Do I see a man who wants to be powerful and is willing to do anything and everything that is proper to become great and powerful? As a woman, do I see myself as strong and powerful and equal to man?

Do I see myself as a romantic and willing and able to face all obstacles that may come in my journey to success? Do I see my beauty and realize that beauty and strength are synonyms? See, beauty is harmony. It is only the superficial beauty.

The beauty of the human being is the strength of the human being. As a woman, do I see myself as a leader in my organization? Do I see myself as a great friend to my partner and a strength to my children? These are visions. As a coach, as a professional coach, do I see myself as a powerful tool that benefits organizations and individuals? Where does imagination come from?

Imagination comes from two zones or two areas:

o From our past experience, our memory bank, and

o From the absolute, which is our consciousness, through the channel of intuition. Our intuition is the inner teacher, the Master within. When imagination comes from the intuition we receive a lot of resistance. From where? From our mind. Our mind is the region of our past experience. If it does not see anything that is in the memory bank it will resist it and will call it a fantasy. For example, the vision of Columbus was a fantasy to people at that time. The vision of a new way to India was a fantasy.

Then there was a vision of Copernicus who was the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the Universe.

His vision was a fantasy too. This is which comes from the absolute.

Today, all those visions have been transcended, which futuristic writers call science fiction. This is very well expressed in the nature of metamorphosis of the caterpillar, which becomes a butterfly. See, the caterpillar crawls and crawls. It eats more than its body weight throughout the day. Then

one day it stops and from its own body it creates a cocoon that surrounds itself. The pain of crawling and living that caterpillar like existence becomes intolerable. So, it creates a cocoon and then creates imaginal cells. You have to understand, those cells are scientifically called imaginal cells. When creating the imaginal cells, the caterpillar gets scared of itself.

It fights those imaginal cells as if those cells are going to destroy the caterpillar itself. This resistance goes on and then the imaginal cells dominate even more. The whole caterpillar becomes like a pig soup, like guck inside the cocoon. The caterpillar gets destroyed and then wings emerge from that guck.

This caterpillar metamorphosis is changed into a butterfly created out of the guck from the imaginal cells. The butterfly cannot eat anymore, it can only drink. It drinks the nectar of the flowers the same way when you start imagining from your consciousness, from your intuition, from the inner teacher.

Your mind will resist it and you will be fighting it but do not fight it. You have to remind yourself who you are and the four proclamations proclaim who you are in the book. Keep on meditating on it. Keep on it assiduously and all of a sudden you will see the “old” you that you hang on to so closely and that gives you all the pains, slowly changed into the “new” you, which your vision holds.

The problem in forming the new vision is the lack of belief that you create from no-thing. We have always thought that we need the substance and as such, we need the substance and the circumstances to form a vision. If we believe in that we end up living the life of recycled visions. The Ancients knew about this. Solomon, one of the wisest men ever lived in the history of time, said "A nation without a vision shall perish". Individual is a nation into himself, so we can even say "An individual without a vision shall perish".

We need a vision. If we do not have a vision we will always have to live somebody else's vision.

We cannot move. We cannot even get in the car without a vision of where we are going. Even if we do not have a vision, we have to have a vision of having no vision. Solomon was a King, he was wise.

He also knew that most individuals do not make an effort to make a vision for their own life, for the day, or for the daily activities. He also knew that when an individual does not have a clear vision, they do not know what they want. They become agitated, angry, stressed out, and live in anxiety. A vision, which is formed by us, destroys anxiety.

We cannot live without a vision for a moment.

When we do not consciously form a vision of what we want to be, we get a sense of helplessness. We feel that all the time we are what other people or our environment wants us to be, even with a sense of helplessness. Solomon knew that. He realized that he has to give his nation a vision. So, he gave them a collective vision. Spartacus who was a slave himself and who wanted to free the slaves gave the slaves the vision of being free. Moses gave his people the vision of a promised land and that vision sustained them for 40 years going through the desert.

You must have a vision and a vision needs belief.

When Moses gave that vision, there were resistances inside the group. The tendency to go back was always there. There were people who wanted to go back to slavery in Egypt, initiating rebellions against the vision of a promised land.

Anxiety is a vision of being what we do not want to be, what we do not want to have and to do. Leadership starts with a vision. People need a hope and a vision. A great leader cannot have his followers filled with anxiety. He must give them a vision or help them build a vision. He may have a genius with him. However, a genius drowning in anxiety becomes an incapacitated genitor. He becomes a liability.

The leader's first order of the day is to give his people a common vision, a vision, which they can only buy with their emotional currency. If at that time, they do not have that emotional currency or preparedness to buy the vision, the leader then needs to prepare his people to earn the currency. After that he will be able to sell them the common vision, a vision that they are willing to stand up for, be proud to have, and are willing to face all the obstacles to bring that vision to life.

Whether you are a parent, a CEO, a husband, a wife, a boss, or a friend, it is absolutely necessary to have a vision.

Furthermore, let’s go over how to order imagination into a vision.

The word order is the key. Ordering is to set imagination in the right sequence, to take command, and to supervise imagination. Let's stop here for a moment and ask, what does supervise mean? Supervision means super-vision, the vision that is super beyond the normal. Our imagination, as we discussed before, is a movie that we create in our mind. It is not really the movie. It is the raw footage of our “would be” movie. Then, when we edit the slices and set it in the format of a movie, it becomes a vision, which is the final product. We can live and move, and have our being in that vision.

The Universe is a vision of the creator. A vision is a living entity. It is evolving. It grows. It breaks up the old like the caterpillar that has to be destroyed to become a butterfly. We cannot be a caterpillar and then decide to be a butterfly and have both.

You have to let it go. In the book it is called "jumping off the boat".

We jump off the boat. All the knowledge we have and all the education we have becomes a load if we do not jump off the boat. When we want to cross a river, we need a boat. So, when we cross the river, we have gone to the other bank and if we still stay on the boat, we have not crossed the river.

We are still the caterpillar but when we jump off the boat, then we have crossed the river the same way that knowledge, which is our boat, takes us to the other side to our vision. Then we have to start living in the vision. We need the boat to cross the river. Crossing the river is the meditation, the reading, and the affirmations. But then the affirmations, the meditations, and the reading alone will not bring you the vision.

Becoming the vision is the key - the moment you start living in the vision.

Vision is a living entity. It grows. It breaks up the old. It evolves and spirals up. A vision is never static. We must practice seeing it as a vision, like when we see a flower or a beautiful baby's face. The creator made it with no- thing and without hands or feet. The same is with individuality. All we have in this whole Universe is made out of no-thing. The mind cannot accept that. What do you mean? The chair I am sitting on is no-thing? As a matter of fact, yes, it is no-thing. The mind cannot comprehend that. How can the lesser comprehend the greater? The solid, even the table is not a solid. It is particles there.

We live in particles. The particles are waves, which is energy. All we have is made out of no-thing.

The Ancients across the world, both in the east and the west tell us that “As the Universe, so the Individual

and as the Individual, so the Universe”. A great messenger in the Greek mythology, Hermes, tells us

"As the Macrocosm, so the Microcosm and as the Microcosm, so the Macrocosm".

Remind yourself that all the time. Every great philosophy, all great teachings confirm that and it has sustained itself for thousands of years. Nobody disputes this. There is no difference and there is no contradiction. A vision the individual has is the spark and the Universe is the blaze. That spark can create the same blaze. We create out of no-thing. A vision is the reality. A reality is the vision. A flower is the reality and it is the vision at the same time.

It is also made out of no-thing. Science does not know today what matter is. Ask any scientist, they will say that they are stuck there.

Science does not know what a thing is.

Now scientists say that matter is not a thing. Matter has dissolved into mystery. When we see the Universe, we must know that it is all inside us. The individual is a spark, and the Universe is the blaze. The spark can create the same blaze you can. That is why the four proclamations are given and they actually proclaim who you are.

You have to know who is visioning, who is designing.

Do not let the mind answer it. The mind does not know, as it is simply a hard drive in our computer. It is our memory bank. We give it commands and it will give us the output but it needs the input. The mind prevents us from giving the input if it does not find it in its memory bank.

If this guardian at the gate, which we call mind, was successful at all times, we would not have internet today. We would not be able to hold live conferences via internet and have people attending them right across the continents.

Not long ago we would be called mad if we said that this is what we have in mind. That is why we need a vision. Imagination is curtailed by circumstances. Keep your vision and imagination sessions private. Since in the previous chapter we have touched a little bit on the aspect of privacy regarding imagination sessions, I would like to expand on that more, as it is a very important topic.

Remember, silence is power.

You should remember that. When you talk about your visions and your aspirations to other people and they do not think the same way you think, they can infect your vision with doubt. That infection, if not resisted, can multiply like a virus. It can have a tendency to destroy your vision or bring in doubts.

You never know where this infection is coming from. Infection will not come from people you do not trust, but it will come from people who you have a lot of faith in. Most of the time it will be your parents, significant others, close friends, etc.

Even if they do not say anything, their look or a rising eyebrow could affect you. That is where this infection will come from, the infection of doubt.

That is why it should be kept private. Unless those people have the same mindset as you are, the same aspirations as you do, by all means discuss it! Otherwise, the injected doze of doubt will dissipate your powers.

Do not set a date or deadline to manifest your vision.

There is a difference between a goal and a vision. For example, when we play hockey or soccer the vision is to win the game and the vision is how we play the game.

We see the whole game in its entirety being played out by us. We vision who will make what movements. We only see ourselves winning the game and laying on the ice or grass exhausted and victorious. We even vision that the goal that we are required to shoot to win the game is time bound because we have so many minutes to score the goal.

The goals are the components of our vision and that is the manifestation of our vision. The manifestation is time bound but not the vision of the game that we played over and over in our mind. A vision cannot be locked in time and space but the manifestation of the vision must be in the three dimensional world and has to

be locked in time and space.

For example, a worry is a vision of what might happen and it may happen next year when your contract runs out and you see yourself without a job. You experience fear of the vision of not having a job long before it happens.

A goal of completing an assignment has to have a time of completion. When we vision the assignment, we have already seen it being done. It has been completed in our mind. At that time it is a contradiction in terms when we vision it, it is not time bound.

Just like the worry, it is not time bound. When we vision that our assignment has been done, then we will see the Universe getting to work to synchronize everything for us to finish our assignment in “by when” time, in the allocated time. Conditions are time bound, not the vision.

In the book there is one beautiful example. If you go to page 47 and look at the third paragraph, it says:

The Great Master, Jesus of Nazareth, with pristine clarity drew a picture of visioning and seeing the vision already fulfilled without depending on any conditions. He used a metaphor that boggles the intellect. He told his disciples,

"Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say onto you.

Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest".

Now, that is an intellectual impossibility. The Master takes this natural phenomenon on farming and any farmer knows that this is time bound. It takes four months for the harvest to be produced. The Master knows the conditions are fulfilled. “See the harvest already white”, he says, “behold”. The words are be and hold.

That means you have to “be” it. That means a vision is being it and then holding the vision. Lift up your eyes, not the physical eyes that you have, an eye of imagination. Imagination is the eye of consciousness. We see with imagination.

The eyes do not see.

The eyes are extension of our vision, just like our glasses are extension of our vision, just like binoculars are extension of our vision including the TV, which is an extension of our vision too. When we watch TV, we are watching people raising their hand in China and we see them in that very moment like today. That picture is not in the TV. If we break the TV we would not see it there. The Master takes the natural phenomenon on farming as the metaphor.

Everyone knows that it takes four months for the crop to grow provided all conditions of cultivation, such as irrigation, the weather, and all the other requirements are fulfilled. He tells his listeners to see the harvest at the same time as they see this land.

Then again, if you go back to page 32, he tells the disciples "Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray", which means vision, “believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”. This is the same thing that all the great teachers of the Ancients taught. I refer to this because people in the western world can recognize this more, so you never do anything. You see it being done and it is done.

Yes, we need “by when” for the business world and for our own world. The visible is sustained by the invisible and we have to remember that always.

There are always two creations- one in our heart and the other one in time and space. The creation in time and space is impossible if it is first not created in our heart, which is our consciousness. The ancient wisdom of Solomon reconfirms the same: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”. All of these things are the same thing. All the Masters, all the teachers of the Ancients taught us this.

How to get to desire and result? Can it be possible to not need to focus on the how and still trust that the desired outcome will happen? That is the question that is in most people's mind no matter what book they read, what videos they see, and what audios they hear.

It is absolutely true, we have to focus on how to get the desired end results and we have to start with the end results first. We have to focus on the end results we want to see, not the end results we can have given the circumstances.

Most people see the end results on the basis of what they can see.

When Columbus was looking for the route to India from the west he saw the end result of going to India. He did not want to go through the Cape of Good Hope though Africa. Remember, there was no Suez Canal.

It was a dangerous path. His own country, Italy, rejected him but Spain supported him. He was looking for India not through the Cape of Good Hope, which was Vasco de Gama’s way, but through the Atlantic going west. He did not consider himself how.

He knew there was a way and he saw the end vision so much so, that when he reached America, he called the place India, which is still called West Indies, or the Indies. He had a vision.

So, how can it be possible not to focus on the how and still trust the desired outcome will happen?

If you live in the vision all the required scenarios will come not from your past experience, but from seeing things that you have never seen before. The required scenarios will appear not by magic but by holding the vision. The visible world is sustained by the invisible. You have to handle all the problems as they come, holding no doubt and believing that you will have it because this is how the Universe is made.

Your consciousness is the creator.

My consciousness is the creator. If your consciousness is the creator it will create the desired results. Now, that requires assiduous practice. Assiduous practice means if you are not successful the first time, you start again. Otherwise, you will be living in perpetual doom and gloom. Assiduous practice of the worst case scenario on the other hand is imagination by itself. It is a vision of failure.

What we have to do is to vision the best case scenario. This is our conditioning and it will take some time. It will take practice like meditation to break through. It will be like that caterpillar fighting its own imaginal cells and we will see the metamorphosis, the change will take place. All metamorphose accompanies destruction of the old.

Imagination comes from our intuition.

Then, what do we do? We hit it with reasoning. There are two kinds of reasoning:

o The first kind is the higher reasoning, which comes from the part of our consciousness that says anything is possible.

o The other reasoning is the lower reasoning, which comes from the past experience and present conditions.

The only way to overcome the lower reasoning is through assiduous practice. Hold a vision, it will not be easy but what else can you do but practice? Practice, practice, and practice. Success is not having money.

“Success is being able to hold a vision without faking it, knowing that your consciousness is the creator.”

Why Can’t We Hold A Vision And Manifest It?

Time on itself is very meaningless as it is simply a tool that we use. So, why are we so hung up on time and why can't we hold a vision and manifest a vision?

“If one man conquers in battle a thousand men a thousand times, and if another conquers himself,

he, the latter, is the greater conqueror” –Gautama Buddha.

Let me repeat this. This is so important. You must embrace this statement in your heart if you want to be successful. “If one man conquers in battle a thousand men a thousand times, and if another conquers himself, he, the latter, is the greater conqueror”.

Science today has come to the conclusion that consciousness creates reality. In the Copenhagen interpretation it says "Consciousness creates reality".

Reality is observer created.

Consciousness is the creator. It is one of the four proclamations in the book. These proclamations are not mantras. They are the proclamations of who you are. Consciousness creates reality, consciousness is the creator. Your reality is your creation and consciousness creates everything out of no-thing.

Now, we know today that matter is no-thing. Matter is not a thing. It is ridiculous because we can touch it and we can feel it. Then we have to ask: why don't we create things we want to create?

We know that we create by visioning. Then why can't we hold a vision and manifest a vision? What do we mean by no-thing? This is what it is. What do we mean by substance? That is the question that we have to stop and ask.

This something that we are sitting on, say the chair, or the solid thing that we may be standing on, the floor…. We know it is not solid. We know that it is particles that are reduced to waves and vibrations and they are moving. When we ask science what is matter, they say we are stuck there.

In a dream we live amidst solidity. For instance, in a dream we bump against another car and we have a car accident. We get hurt. We cry. We bleed. Everything is real in the dream yet our body is lying in bed. We wake up from the sleep and say "I had a dream". The question is: how do you know that was not real and the waking up is a dream?

We don't. We are now relying on circumstances and on our present conditions. The mind cannot believe that the vision can physically materialize out of no-thing. It takes assiduous practice to conquer the aspect of time before our vision and, most importantly, the belief can materialize in the three-dimensional form out of no-thing.

Our mind truly cannot believe this. Our entire dependence is on matter. That is what we call a materialist, one who depends on pre-existing materials, circumstances, depends on conditions, money they have, and not the money they want in their imagination. If we do that, we will be called insane.

What is substance anyway?

It comes from the two Latin words sub and stance. Sub means below and stance means what we stand on. Our consciousness creates substance. The whole purpose is to control our thoughts and to hold our thoughts, which are processed through our mind.

Thought is imagination.

If we can depend on the riches that our vision holds, then we have mastered our circumstances. That is a hard thing to do when we are not used to it.

The reason we cannot hold on to a vision is because either we do not want it badly enough or we believe that visioning alone will not get for us what we want. If that is the case, then there is no release anywhere. If we cannot depend on the vision to get we what we want, then we will be buffeted by circumstances the rest of our life.

We cannot hold on to a vision that we cannot believe in.

We cannot concentrate on a lie. A vision can only be a vision if our mind agrees to believe it. To train the mind to know the truth that consciousness creates everything out of no-thing, that everything is made of and made with consciousness, is the true secret of success. That is a hard one to accept because we are all in the "show me" state of mind. That means if I do not see it, I do not believe it but our mind's eye is seeing it. Your imagination is the eye of your consciousness.

How often do you get sick just imagining fear that has never happened, like fear of heights or death? That fear is so real that you get eruptions in the body, stomach ache, and fever. Chemical changes take place in your body just by imagining what you do not want. Is that real? Is that rush that is coming through your body real?

So why can't it be for the good things you want?

Because the belief is not there. All the Masters who taught us, taught us that as we think, so we are. Our thought is our imagination. We rely too much on our intellect. Intellect comes from two words intel and legere, which means to choose between this and that.

Let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves, why can't we hold a vision and manifest a vision?

Because we cannot believe in it. That is why we cannot hold it. We have to understand this. In the book it says very clearly "Nothing affects us more than our mind”.

The Mind is the ultimate bully and we get bullied by it all our life.

When we are in control of our mind, we are in control of our life. Are we in control of our mind as much as we would like to be? How do we control our mind?

The ancient Masters have one answer and that answer is not an easy one - by continuous practice and detachment to the process of creation. The Masters say that just because our consciousness has been awaken, it does not mean a thing if we do not have control over our mind.

All limitations are of the mind and all freedom is of the mind.

The mind is like a white piece of cloth. Whatever color we dip it in, it becomes that color. This example, this metaphor that is given in the book from Upanishads says "Our individuality is made up of consciousness, body, mind, and intellect". Let's vision this picture, let's vision this idea. The body, mind, intellect, and senses are the equipment of consciousness.

I am talking to you intellectually now, so I can enter your heart through your intellect because your intellect is the security guard. It will not allow any thought to enter your heart and your consciousness if it does not find an identification point. The body, mind, intellect, and the senses are the equipment of consciousness to take you to your destination.

The Upanishads of the Vedas draw the vivid picture of our individuality. It says that consciousness is a rider. For example, it is a passenger in the chariot, which is the body, our body. So, it is your consciousness in the passenger seat in the chariot, which is your body. The intellect is the driver of the chariot. The reigns, which guide the horses, is the mind and the horses are the senses. These turbulent senses are the horses. The passenger tells the driver, which is the intellect, where to go.

If we went on a taxi and we told the taxi driver to go north and he goes south, we would not be happy, would we? No way. The driver of the taxi is our intellect. We have hired the taxi, that is our body and it must obey us.

You are the consciousness and your engine are the senses while the steering wheel is your mind. The intellect must hear the mind. The senses must take you to where you want to go, where your consciousness wants to go, and you are the consciousness. This is the state of affairs with your life as you drive through life.

Now, let's backtrack a bit. We are told throughout history the same thing in all parts of the world. We say “As the Universe, so the Individual, and as the Individual, so the Universe”. We are told that “As the Macrocosm, so the Microcosm, and as the Microcosm, so the Macrocosm”.

We are told “The spark of the blaze is equal in power to the blaze because it can produce the same blaze”. In most cosmogeny it says that “God and Man are One”.