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 Just as when we eat an apple, we receive the strength of the apple, and when we eat chaat or pakoras, we receive the energy of those foods—without having to do anything extra—the stomach digests everything on its own. In the same way, whatever we feed our mind, whether by reading, listening, or seeing, becomes nourishment for the mind. We do not have to do anything special; just reading, listening, knowing, and seeing is enough. The mind processes it all on its own and gets nourishment exactly according to what we have read, heard, seen, or known. Our thoughts are formed accordingly.

So, just as we focus on good food for good health, we should also let only good thoughts enter within us for a healthy and positive mind.

The difficulty is that whatever we desire tends to start getting fulfilled. Therefore, we should be very careful with any wish we make, because our desires begin to manifest without our realizing it. Whenever something terrible or horrifying happens in this world, it is often something that was once imagined by someone out of ignorance.

The world is not a separate entity from us; it is connected to us—almost like an extension of our own body. We feel that we are only as much as we see of ourselves in the mirror, but that is not true. Everything here is linked to us. Just as our hands, feet, head, eyes, and ears are parts of our body, in the same way, we are all limbs of a vast cosmic body. All our senseless or random imaginations also begin to manifest on their own.

That is why we must be thoughtful and careful about whatever we imagine.