The Subconscious Mind, A Servile master

BY

Mahesh Jethmalani

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my wife Nikita and sons Pranshu and Aniruddha who have always stood by me and supported me in my all endeavors. 

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Winning is a habit.  Unfortunately, so is losing.

—Vince Lombardi.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, A SERVILE MASTER

First Edition. 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Mahesh Jethmalani.

Written by Mahesh Jethmalani.

Preface  

The human mind is said to be the greatest miracle in the world. Simply Unparalleled! There is nothing in this world that the human mind cannot do. The reason for the failure and misery of people in life is their ignorance about the powers of their mind.

In this world, we see some people attaining success with very little effort while others slogging for the same. The difference between the two types is invariably their mind and its training. The former have their mind trained or programmed with the attitude for success and the latter with their mind not programmed for the success. 

A mind trained for success has a recipe for success and it creates everything in and around it accordingly. A trained mind can create surroundings facilitating success with necessary resources. Most people fail because they don’t create surroundings around them for success to take place. They consciously allow negative things, events, people and thoughts around them and unconsciously visualize limitation, lack, and discord in their life. Unfortunately this is what many are unconsciously doing all the time. 

They are like a fully loaded missile, ready to take off, but never taking off because they don't know how to operate it. They live their lives like a racing car capable of running at high speeds but being driven by a driver with one foot always on the brake pedal.

Whatever the human mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. We need to know and awaken our dormant giant power within and the way it can be used to get ourselves out of the rut life and achieve our dreams. All successful people we know in this world are those who used their minds by releasing the brakes and running the vehicle at its inherent speed. In this book, we will know about the miraculous powers of our mind and how to release the brakes.

Thoughts are the seeds of success. Nothing in the world happens without a thought. Thoughts are things that travel in the ether, and when mixed with emotions, they can be transformed into physical equivalents by the subconscious mind. Our thoughts tend to wear clothes and convert themselves into their tangible realities.

Our thoughts make our beliefs. The law of life is actually the law of belief. As a man thinks, feels and believes so is the condition of his mind, body and circumstances. By changing or empowering a limiting belief anybody can change his results in life from failure to success, from poverty to abundance and from disease to health.

Our subconscious mind is an obedient servant but a terrible master. Once programmed, it becomes like a computer in our life. It runs our life according to programs fed into it. Our greatest tragedy is that the programs are fed into this computer without our knowledge when we are helpless.

Most people not aware of this fact leave this world with their potential still dormant inside them. Had they known about their innate powers and abilities they could have changed their epitaph to a glorious one from what it is today.

However, some people, who come to know about this fact, it's too late in their life; they have already caused the damage. When and how to control this mental computer will be the major theme of this book.

Prayer is our desire or thought which we fill with belief or faith in God and expect to receive health, money, better relationships and abundance in our life from God but the efficacy of the prayer depends on our faith and earnestness in the prayer. This book will teach you how you can achieve these two things in your prayers to get maximum results.

All human beings are connected through infinite intelligence or cosmic consciousness. This consciousness is omnipresent. All minds are connected to one Universal Mind through our thoughts which travel through this consciousness. We all are complementary to each other. If we want to sell something, somebody wants to buy the same thing; if we want to marry off our son then somebody wants to marry off his daughter; if we want to sing a song then somebody wants to play music for this song and somebody wants to listen to this song. This way always a second half is waiting to meet, in this world, with its first half. We can find this other half and make our desire complete. If said in simple words it means what you want also wants you.

How we can use this to our advantage? We can utilize the universal mind and consciousness as a network and reach billions of people in the world. How this can be done to connect us all with the whole world in a few minutes, this novel, first ever idea will be discussed in this book. We will learn how we can connect ourselves to the world through cosmic consciousness and send our message to the whole world without any expenditure within minutes.

How we develop faith for our success, we will discuss in this book because faith alone is responsible for success and failure.

Our body is made of billions of biological cells. The miraculous Discovery of structure of our body cells, reveals that the brain is integrated into the body at a molecular level and therefore neither can be treated separately without the other being directly affected. Each cell of human body is an extended part of our subconscious mind and is like a computer chip having its own mind and intelligence. It contributes in making our beliefs and success. These cells collect environmental signals from our surroundings and create results of same kind. So to get good results we have to keep our mind as well as our surroundings full of healthy, wealthy and empowering thoughts.

Science has proved now that our thoughts are responsible for our various health challenges and diseases. If we can change our thoughts into thoughts of abundance and goodwill to others then we may create healing of our diseases and ailments. Altering thoughts not only affects our circumstances but it also affects our mental and physical wellbeing. This book discusses in detail these psychosomatic fundamentals of wealth and healing by changing our thoughts.

We only live once, but once is enough if we live it right. Live your life with quality, meaning and dignity so that an A-ha instead of an Oh-no!  denotes it!"

That's true. Life should not be long, but it should be significant. Let's make it significant together with this book.

Read this book like a student and take your decision in life after applying your mind to ideas given in the book. You may have a different opinion about these ideas; therefore, don't accept anything in the book like an order. Exercise your freedom to accept or reject any idea or thought which is not convincing to you.

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Mahesh Jethmalani

Chapter 1

Our Identity

We are not human beings having a

spiritual experience. We are spiritual

beings having a human experience.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Who we are?

We are infinite cosmic consciousness.

However, are we least familiar with ourselves?

It troubles me to say that we spend years in school learning about the lives of other people, by reading their biographies & histories but we devote hardly any time at all to study ourselves. How sad that most of us know more about how and why our automobile malfunctions than we know about ourselves. Perhaps we are least familiar with ourselves. Too many of us understand the forces of Indian, American, or European history but not the forces behind our personal histories.

Beware of no one more than of yourself;

we carry our worst enemies within us.

—Charles Spurgeon

If we go a bit deeper inside this quest to find our identity, then we will find that we are neither this body nor this brain of ours. Bhagwat Gita says we came in this species of human beings after traveling through various or all of the 84, 00,000 species. This life has been given to us by God as a chance to realize our true self and free ourselves from the cycle of birth and death. We don’t know for how long we have been in this circuit of coming and going; how many births and deaths we have taken in the past. However, one thing is sure that in our past births we didn’t do this work of freeing ourselves and therefore we are here again in this life. Only we have been given this ability by God, through this body, that we can achieve that goal of freeing ourselves. God has not given this ability to any other living species.

Like all other objects, the human body is also a formation or appearance. Hence, it is not the real Self. So are the mind, the senses, and all other parts and aspects of the human body. They constitute the physical self or the outer Self. One should look beyond them to experience oneness with the Self, or the divine entity which is hidden within all of us.

By knowing yourself, by consciously striving to understand who you are; how your personality was formed; how you got these beliefs; who is behind the formation of these beliefs inside you; what powers you have been endowed with; what is the purpose of your life; and how you have to or should live this life so that you can free yourself to grow beyond your past experiences to the heights of that ultimate purpose of every human being.

You can live for the grand possibilities of the future, rather than be tied to the restrictive influences of the past. Henry David Thoreau said, When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. 

Most people live their life in this fashion only and repent before leaving this world that they missed living the life to the fullest. They realize at that time that they had potential and opportunities in their life where they could have excelled, had they only overcome their doubts and inactivity.

Every human being grows wiser with every passing second of his life. Every day brings new challenges, things, learning and experiences to us. We rue those missed opportunities which were picked up by someone else. For example, I have many friends who dabble in stock market. They tell me that xyz stock was available at so low prices ten years back and they didn’t buy it then, even after expert advice and today the stock is a multi bagger.

Many people missed some chance to a good education, and today they remember and repent their decision. Likewise some people missed good jobs in their twenties and now in old age they just repent of their foolish decision of having continued in a dumb job.

There are missed property investments which could have turned into millions of dollars today. At the same time there are relationships which were shattered on flimsy grounds and today both sides repent of it.

These are some things people remember in their rainy days and become nostalgic. As we grow older, we tend to learn new things. When we reconsider our past decisions we come to know whether they were right or wrong at that time.

I once heard it said that everyone in this world is born unique to win, but I have seen most of them die as losers and as failure copies of one another that lived a life, they had never designed for themselves.  

Every day we get opportunity to design our life to what we want it to be but we miss this opportunity for the blind race in the life for accumulation of worldly things, for pleasing others, for those readymade fake smiles on our lips, for those fake grandiose false pretences and for finishing those endless to-do lists provided to us by those who have their dreams to be achieved on the cost of our dreams.  

We know ourselves by a name which is given to us by this world. That name becomes our identity in this world for the rest of our lives. In the identification of that name, we forget our true identity and know ourselves as this body only.

Every one of us is consciously aware of the life we live daily but feels forced to live this type of life for reasons external to us. We get pushed from all sides to project ourselves and our family as the most successful and capable in the society. A life of comparison with achievement of others becomes a milestone for us to achieve every single day in our life. Most people forget the ethics and moral values for achieving these lofty goals.

Searching our roots in Science & Philosophy

The connection between science and philosophy has continued for thousands of years. Scientists and philosophers are skirmishing everyday for proving the authenticity of one over the other. There are philosophy-jeering scientists like Lawrence Krauss, who claims "science progresses and philosophy doesn't." 

Philosophy may be called the science of sciences probably in the sense that it is, in effect, the self-awareness of the sciences and the source from which all the sciences draw their world-view and methodological principles, which in the course of centuries have been honed down into concise forms.

But today there is a tough fight between these two disciplines and a showdown of one for the other. Philosophers say they are after the cause of the things while the scientists say they are studying the effects. It is an unending debate between the two.

As a whole, both philosophy and the sciences are equal partners in exploration of truth. Philosophy does not replace the specialised sciences and does not command them, but it does arm them with general principles of theoretical thinking, with a method of cognition and world-view.  

Let us keep ourselves away from both these for finding our roots and ultimately our identity. We will concentrate ourselves on a third science known as Spirituality for finding our answers, although there are no fewer critics of Spirituality also. Psychologists and neuroscientists are biggest critics of spirituality. Spirituality destroys their sciences with its literature and lucid theory. Let us see what is in spirituality for us.

Our subconscious mind is the miracle of miracles in this world and we will study about it, predominantly, in this book but the powers of subconscious mind have their roots in the spirituality. Without spirituality the powers of subconscious mind cannot be defined and understood.

Therefore, we will first take a brief knowledge of spirituality and its connection with our body and mind but this book, should, in no way, be regarded as a treatise on spirituality.

Spirituality is our true identity

All of us are obviously the fragments

of God. Mamaivansho Jeevloke.

—(Bhagwat Gita, 15/7)

Life does not mean breathing. An ironsmith’s bellow also forces air but it does not mean that it lives a life. Our life is fruitful only when we perform activities, which are worthy to be done by a man. God has given us birth here. No one can say that they have taken birth of their own.

For eons science was not able to even define the all pervading consciousness around us and the substance it is made of, but recently science has discovered (whether it is right or wrong, or for the sake of finding at least ‘something’ for snobbery) that all pervading consciousness is made of ‘Higgs boson’ particles. But science is way behind in this field. The reason is that scientists are not self realized persons and self realized persons are not scientists.

Secondly, science can discover things which can be seen, measured and are finite. But the real Brahman as defined in all the scriptures is: infinite, unseen, unfathomable, beyond all senses, beyond all faculties of knowledge, beyond all space, beyond all causes, beyond all forms, beyond all shapes, and beyond all measures.

The science is constantly contradicting its own theories, as it goes on finding new ones, by reiterating its old principles and facts, while the nature’s laws have been the same since time unknown. They never change like this. Actually science, in a futile attempt, itself being finite, is trying to define the infinite. The transient is trying to define the eternal. Man is trying to define God, his creator. 

What is Spirituality?

You have to grow from the inside

out. None can teach you, none

can make you spiritual. There is

no other teacher but your own soul.

—Swami Vivekananda

There are many definitions of Spirituality, especially those which try to incorporate today’s materialism into their fold. Some of them are given here. Please be patient to read them all to get a broad idea about what is spirituality.

Spirituality according to Various Dictionaries;

The Cambridge dictionary defines spirituality as, The quality that involves deep feelings and beliefs of a religious nature, rather than the physical parts of life.

Collins dictionary says, Spirituality means relating to people’s thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings.

The Oxford dictionary says, Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Wikipedia says, There is no single, widely agreed upon definition of spirituality. Surveys of the definition of the term, as used in scholarly research, show a broad range of definitions, ranging from one-dimensional definitions such as a personal belief in a supernatural realm to broader concepts such as a quest for an ultimate or sacred meaning, transcending the base or material aspects of life, and or a sense of awe and wonderment and reverence toward the universe.

Other definitions

A man is not poor without a

rupee but a man is really poor

without a dream and ambition.

— Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality is the recognition of a feeling or sense or belief that there is something greater than myself, something more to being human than sensory experience, and that the greater whole of which we are part is cosmic or divine in nature.

Spirituality means knowing that we have significance in a context beyond a mundane everyday existence at the level of biological needs that drives desires of selfishness, aggression, greed, materialism and many other. It means knowing that we are a spiritual being with a human experience instead of a human being with a spiritual experience. 

Spirituality involves exploring certain universal themes – love, compassion, altruism, life after death, wisdom and truth, with the knowledge that some people such as saints or enlightened individuals have achieved and manifested higher levels of development than the ordinary person. Aspiring to manifest the attributes of such inspirational examples often becomes an important part of the journey through life for spiritually inclined people.

Spirituality is having an attachment to religious values, or matters of the spirit, rather than material or worldly interests.

Spirituality is reaching higher levels of consciousness using meditation, yoga and similar practices to realize our true self.

Spirituality is, to be in a state in which we are connected to God, nature, each other, and the deepest part of ourselves.

The way we express our spirituality is shaped by our personal, family, and cultural experiences.

Some people express their spirituality in a religious way. This usually includes religious language, beliefs and symbols. People maintain their religion through individual practices and participation in the rituals of their faith, community. Religious people often turn to their religious faith and community for comfort and strength in difficult times.

Spirituality can also be expressed in ways not considered religious. These are just some of the ways in which people can nurture their spirits:

Relating to friends, family, and neighbors in ways that give and receive love, support, kindness, guidance, loyalty, and forgiveness;

Expressing themselves creatively or artistically (e.g., woodworking or sewing, writing poetry or making music, painting or sculpting);

Reading books and engaging in conversations about the meaning of life;

Paying attention to the movements of their emotional lives, the stirrings of the spirit evident in sadness, longing, love, anxiety/fear, anger, joy, pride, hope, and compassion;

Enjoying the natural world (e.g., gardening or hiking, watching songbirds or sunsets, travelling to scenic places, spending time at a cottage, savoring the first snowfall or spring buds);

Enjoying comedy and humor (e.g., light-hearted banter in everyday conversation, the capacity to see the joke in life’s discouraging moments, or comedies on the stage or in books or movies);

Trying to live ethically, by integrating justice and fairness, peace-making, or green practices into their lives

There are people who would say that for them, spirituality means religion, being religious, and following the laws and tradition of religion, probably their own religion.

For some, this word means belief in God and the power that created life and the Universe.