What is Manifestation?
Manifestation in simple words means making something, that which we believe, happen in reality, through a combined effort of our thoughts, actions and emotions. Manifestation is not a new word or a new thing. With social media being so much advanced now, it’s just that the word Manifestation got so much popularity.
We have been manifesting our dreams and beliefs ever since. Most of us do it without any sort of awareness or unknowingly. What do we believe? We believe something that we have seen. Seeing is Believing. We see a plane and we believe that it does exist. We want to either sit in the plane, fly it, make it and do everything that our imagination makes us do. We see a tree, we eat the fruit from that tree, so we believe it is possible to produce fruits if we plant a tree. Now how this belief manifests is the question. We have seen the tree, we have touched it, eaten the fruits from it, and now want to grow one more with fruits on it. Will that happen overnight? Will it happen only if we keep sitting and thinking? No. Now, how does the belief that we can produce fruits from another tree can be manifested? The thought or the idea is already taken birth in the mind. It’s time for the action. Now we would try to sow the seeds or plant the tree. We will take care of the plants, we will water the plant, the sun will do its work, air will give the necessary ingredients. Our thought of : being able to produce fruits from other plants is now projected towards one direction along with the necessary action and emotions. Finally, the tree will grow. After the seasons have gone by and when the tree is ready to bear the fruits, it will produce fruits. Hence we were able to manifest what we believed with necessary action and emotions put together in one direction. This is how it works.
Why manifestations don’t work?
We saw how manifestation works like a process. There is also a reason as to why it doesn’t work. Anything that exists around us was once thought about. Someone would have imagined it. But unless he had worked upon it or made someone work on his imagination, what he has created in his mind would not have existed in reality. So it is important to act upon what we want to create. Any creation requires energy to be directed in one direction for it to manifest itself. If the energies are diverted or misdirected, then it cannot come to reality. If we want to eat food, just by imagining food we cannot eat it. Either we need to cook, get it cooked or get it ordered and delivered to eat.
There are several small and big things that we manifest in our lives and only those becomes a reality, upon which we work. Whatever we have created in our lives was first created in our minds. We wanted big house, we had dreamt of it. We wanted a big car, we had dreamt of it. Worked day and night to gather such luxury. Everything that we build for ourselves first found expressions in our minds.
Now we need to understand that there are different kinds of thoughts we keep imposing on our minds. So, it is very much a truth that our world is a manifestation of wonderful as well as horrible things. What we think, believe, we become. So it is important to create the right kind of thoughts in our minds.
Human mind is like a monkey. We think random things and most of us are not in control of our own minds. We are slaves of our minds. When we aren’t sure of what we want, if there is no clarity and focus, we will lose the control , we will create some random, accidental life. For example: With standard of living improving we are digging our own graves in every possible way. Home cooked food is slowly going to be a rare case phenomenon. Let say some food delivery service is offering huge discounts on account of festivals, it is very easy for a person whose pocket is full of money to succumb to such alluring offers. So one day he orders something, another day another offer, third day something. This person is doing what his mind says like a slave. Despite knowing the fact that daily consumption of outside food is not good for health, this person is unable to tell his mind to stop ordering the food. He has lost control in a way. The discounts and the mouth watering images of the dishes compels him to order food. Where does that lead to? A bad health isn’t it? But if he would have done it for a day or two out of choice, he was still having an upper hand than his mind. Anything that we do under compulsion leads to destruction.
An unestablished mind has unnecessary movement of thoughts. It goes thinking about everything and anything without any purpose. It keeps repeating and imitating the things it has seen, heard or felt. There is absolutely no focus.
How to keep control of our minds?
When we organise our minds to a certain level of organisation, in turn it organises our entire system. A well established mind is a well organised mind. When the mind is organised , our physical body, energy systems, thought process and emotions are also organised. This is the best way to be and lead one’s life. This is referred to as Samyukti, an established state of mind. When a person is in such an organised state of mind, whatever he or she wishes for, happens effortlessly even with little or no effort.
So we need to be clear on our minds as to what we want. Once that is decided we should commit ourselves to creating it. For a committed man there is no such thing as failure.
