Yogi Ashwini

Have you ever thought about thoughts? What are thoughts? Where do they come from? What produces thoughts? No, they are not the product of our mind. Mind is incapable of producing anything. In reality, creation at any level in the physical world is impossible because everything already exists. Yes, even thoughts! And they do not reside in the mind. Their abode is elsewhere, not in the physical body.
Every thought is a potential manifestation. The level of consciousness of the person who is thinking is directly proportional to the ability of manifestation of his thoughts. That was the science behind the curses and blessings of the saints.
Let us try to understand the source of thoughts.
Let us do a simple exercise. Sit down comfortably and close your eyes. Take yourself to a state of thoughtlessness where your mind is absolutely blank. Now slowly become aware of the first thought. Be fully aware of where this thought is coming from. Is it from within your physical or is it from somewhere outside your physical? Follow the path of this thought till you know it has come and touched your physical. It will be interesting to note that every time you do this exercise you will find the thoughts are always coming from outside the physical and never from within. Yog talks of blocking these thoughts to achieve a state of stillness or shoonya. Then what are thoughts and where do they live?
We all associate with a dimension; with that of plants, animals, animate and inanimate objects. The physical is a dimension. In the same way there are dimensions of other beings, which lie beyond the physical dimensions. Thoughts are beings, which reside in a dimension of their own, which is away and above the physical dimension. Each and every thought already exists in that dimension. It is the dimension of mind or intellect called the Manomaya kosha. What we refer to as “thinking” is actually connecting to that layer, those beings. When Lord Brahma created the universe, all kinds of thoughts were created in the universe. We only connect to a particular thought depending on our composition and the composition of that thought.
Thoughts reside in their very own dimension or loka. Humans connect to them through their chakras, e.g., a sexual thought would be connected by the swadhishthan chakra and never by the manipurak chakra. The respective chakra collects the thoughts and sends it to the ajna (master chakra) which translates the language of the thought world to the physical world and further sends it to the brain and the body acts. When it is said that all great men think alike it means that they are all connecting to the thoughts of the same nature or in other words they exist at a different but similar plane of existence which is away from the normal person’s plane.
A being of a certain prakriti or nature will connect to the thought of similar nature, good, bad, kind, cruel, various aspects of prakriti. Thoughts have certain compositions, like every other object of creation; they are composed of a specific frequency of sound or colour, which is audible or visible at the time of connection. Imagination in the form of sight or sound is again connecting to the dimension of thoughts.
Prana (the force in the universe) manifests in the form of sound or colours. There are various frequencies of both colours as well as sound. There are various kinds of sounds which bring calmness, which are peaceful, which transport you to different planes — some are cheerful, some romantic, some cause depression and some generate fear. Similarly, there are various compositions of colours, some are dull, depressing, and some are vibrant, pleasing, each having a different effect on the physical.
Thoughts in the form of sound and colours constantly keep the mind engaged. Mind is never still, never at rest, at any point of time. The flow of thoughts never ceases to happen unless the awareness is taken to layers beyond the dimension of thoughts. This state is the state of dhyan. When the consciousness expands and reaches a state where thoughts cease to exist, you experience the state of thoughtlessness, where you don’t realise the passage of time. You then exist in the dimension, which is above time, for here there is no time, everything that exists there is still, because time is actually the distance between two thoughts. Time is an inherent part of the manifested creation, here a yogi goes over the boundaries of manifested creation and hence automatically goes over “time”.

— Yogi Ashwini is an authority on yoga, tantra and the Vedic sciences. He is the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation. He has recently written a book, Sanatan Kriya: 51 Miracles... And a Haunting.
Contact him at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com