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Questioner: Sadhguru, what is the source of thoughts?
Sadhguru: In terms of content, the source of your thoughts is the
accumulation of your sense perceptions. In terms of substance, a thought
is just a reverberation you can give it any form. When the
reverberations become continuous, the thought process picks up
momentum. Through meditation, you calm down the reverberations into
stillness. The reverberation that you experience as thought right now
would on a lower scale of evolution be instinct. Instinct is not exactly the
same as thought there is much more clarity in instinct than in thought.
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Instinct is a lower
form of thought,
or thought is a
higher form of
instinct.
A thought can be formed one way
or the other it can be
contradictory. Instinct is clear-cut.
Animals that are lower on the
evolutionary scale seem to be so
much surer about their life than
human beings, because their
reverberations are on the level of
instinct. Instinct is always about
survival mostly physical
survival. If you look at a worm for example, it seems to be surer it just
knows where to go, because it follows its instinct.
We can say instinct is a lower form of thought, or thought is a higher
form of instinct whichever way you want to look at it. Instinct has
minimal reach it is always about your immediate surroundings. But
your thoughts need not be about your immediate surroundings they can
be about anything. That is why you think of so much nonsense that does
not really concern you. You think about all kinds of things heaven, hell,
a million years later or a million years ago thoughts can go anywhere.
In the evolutionary process, as the body evolves, the reverberations that
happen within also evolve from instinct to thought. Thought is a certain
freedom it gives you larger access to life. But at the same time, thoughts
create total turmoil in human beings. All suffering is because you do not
know which way to think and what to do. If you went by your instinct
alone, you would know what to do. Life would be much simpler, but also
very limited. There would be no possibilities other than survival.
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After instinct evolved into thought, and the thought process became
excessive, the struggles have arisen, because the thoughts happen
involuntarily, according to the sense impressions that you have gathered.
The thought process has become a problem for people only because they
are not aware that it is just a reverberation. These reverberations can take
any form, or you can experience them just as reverberations without
giving them any form.
In a way, the process of Shoonya meditation is just that. It is not that your
reverberations have stopped, as yet it is just that you have stopped
attaching forms or meanings to them. Being aware enough not to attach
forms or meanings to every reverberation that happens within you is an
enormous freedom, and it releases you from the past content of your
mind. Or in traditional words it is unbinding your karmic structure,
because you are not giving it any form or meaning anymore.
The whole process of Isha Yoga is about not giving a form to the
reverberation that you are right now. Your thought is a reverberation, and
in a deeper way, what you call as myself is also a reverberation. Life
itself is a certain reverberation. Modern physics is proving that the whole
existence is a certain reverberation of energy. The physical body, thoughts,
emotions, and everything else are different aspects of the reverberation
that existence is. In human beings, this reverberation has evolved from an
instinctive state to a thought state, which is a freedom because it gives you
a larger access to life. At the same time, without the necessary awareness,
all suffering that human beings are going through is just in their thoughts
it is in the way they think.
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Raman 4 days ago
Thought is always about the past / from accumulation of memory or about future. It
is never in the present. As Sadhguru says, thoughts are the cause of most of our
modern day problems!


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:) 6 days ago
How do thought reverberations take forms? And also what forms?


Omkar Narayan 5 days ago :)
You are not gonna get your question answered here Smiley. You will have to
catch Sadhguru for that. And for that you will have to get really lucky!!! To
get that lucky you will have to attend one of the Isha program where
Sadhguru is physically present. There a person with a microphone on his
hand will be running around. If you raise your hand and if you are lucky he
may come to you or go to some other person who has raised the hand for a
question. Okay, now if he comes to you, he will ask what is the question that
you want to ask?. If he decides with his own prerogative that if this question
is already asked in the past or not. If not, you will get to ask the question.
ooooooooooof. Now guess, how much lucky you have to get?!!!
>>>>> I know you would like Sadhguru to answer your question, but with my
limited understanding (from Sadhguru and others) I will try to throw some
light. :) There are three forms that a reverberation may take;
Thought(Mansik), Speak(Vachik), and/or Action(Kayik). You may get
involved in a Thought and it may become Thinking. Once you have thought
you may speak about it or just do(action) it without speaking. I won't say
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more than this because I don't have the authority with my limited
understanding. ;) But I will make you ask one more question to yourself.
How do Sense Perceptions turn into Though Reverberations? OR what is
the cause/catalyst for that to happen? :) I will not answer this one. Nope. I
only have the authority to ignite you! <<<<<


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VDAMO 3 days ago Omkar Narayan
Whats the point in knowing the technical details until and unless it
becomes a living experience.


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:) 3 days ago Omkar Narayan
Thank you Omkar, but at the end you are also asking the similar
question. :D
I don't know if I will be that lucky as u have said. But I would like to
request u that if you get that luck in ur hand, then pls make me lucky
too (by asking this question)........ :P


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Jaya 6 days ago
Gurupadukabhyam


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manish 7 days ago
Wao


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