"Thought leaves its impression upon the mental world"

1. The moment  we correct our thinking and redress the mistake in the evaluations of things in the world, we know how to redeem ourselves from the sins and walk the path of virtue.

 

2. But, the difficulty felt by practitioners is that they not completely independent of the reactions of their past mistakes.

 

3. Every action and every thought leaves its impression upon the mental world, and every following thought and action has a tendency to repeat itself.

 

4. Thus, having made one misjudgement, the flow of thoughts thereafter has an irresistible tendency and an irrepressible urge to flow in the same direction, pushing the injustice more and more into positive criminalised and low animal isms.

 

5. The only way we can redeem ourselves from our mistakes is to correct our way of thinking and rewrite the entire pattern of thoughts in ourselves.

 

6. This erasing of the wrong patterns and rewriting the unhealthy lines of thinking are both accomplished by the same divine process, which is prescribed in the sacred textbooks.

 

7. The method advised is the constant and repeated chanting and japa of the sacred mantras of Pranavam known as Omkaram.

 

8. We have already seen how Om is the most excellent essence in all Vedas, and since it represents the Supreme Consciousness, it manifests itself into its manifold forms.

 

9. This is indicated here in the term 'into a thousand branches.'