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Namah The Power of Japa and Affirmations

Some people think that doing a Japa of will vanish, and wicked people will become
a Divine name or any affirmation is just sweet and good, and ill people will be cured,
whitewash or fooling around, it is as if I and houses which should be built will be built,
am handing myself a toy to play with, but and those things which should disappear will
the point here is — I can see that the toy of disappear, but giving place to better things,
a Divine Name, or loftier thoughts full of and the world will move in a constant progress,
certitude and goodwill, are a much better and at the end of that progress there will be a
toy than negative and rigid loopy thoughts! total harmony, and so on, and continue thus….
Aren’t they? You can go on endlessly. But then you will
have around you and around your head all
Getting our power back kinds of pretty things (2).”

For me, the first breakthrough came when I All I have to do is to leave the stubbornness
realised that, if my thoughts and emotions of thinking and feeling in one particular set
and inner state can create an illness (1), then rigid pattern, as it comes naturally to me
using the power of thoughts and feelings I according to my past conditioning, which
can also create something else in place of that of course I am unconscious of. I have to let
illness. go of my limiting constricting beliefs, and
mental formations, which I can see clearly
are doing me no good really; and in fact,
are responsible for bringing me down and
down. I have to become unsure of my
distorted perceptions of looking at myself
and everything in this world.

If my thoughts and feelings about the
happenings and people in this life can bring
me down, then they are the ones, which
when used properly can also bring me up.
I just have to cultivate mindfulness of my
thoughts and feelings, becoming conscious
of what I am thinking or feeling; I need to
bring forward the witnessing aspect in me,
that part in me which is observing all the
movements, and is aware of the movements
at all times. And when I am conscious of the
“People always need to make their mind run, inner movements, then I am also empowered
run, run, but then make it run on the right lines, to change and transform them. It gives me
you will see that it has an effect. For instance, back my lost power.
let it go like this: that I shall learn better and
better, shall know better and better, become “There is in us a region which is above
healthier and healthier, and all difficulties space and time, immobile, immutable, at

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