Here is a drunken prince who goes incognito into the slums and in a stupor forgetting entirely his true identity, began lamenting, “How poor I am,” his friends laughed at him and said, “Wake up, and remember that you are a prince.” You have been likewise in a state of hallucination, thinking you are a helpless mortal, struggling and miserable.
Every day the Prince was told you should sit quietly and affirm, with deep conviction: think, affirm, realize your divine nature, destroy the wrong thought of ages that we are frail human beings. We must think, meditate, affirm, believe and realize daily that we are sons of God. If you again and again repeat these thoughts, day and night, you will eventually realize what you really are: an immortal soul. Peel away all limiting thoughts that hide your true self.
Isn’t it strange that you do not know who you are? That you do not know your own self? You define yourself by so many different titles applicable to your body and mortal roles… You must peel off these titles from the soul.
You may say, “That is only a thought.” Well, what is thought?
Everything you see is the result of an idea…. Invisible thought gives all things their reality. Therefore if you can control your thought processes, you can make anything visible and vou can materialize it by the power of your concentration.
Learning to control your thoughts and interiorize your mind by scientific guru-given techniques of meditation, you will gradually develop spiritually: your meditations will deepen and vour invisible self, the soul-image of God within, will become real to you. Think away the thoughts you want to destroy, by replacing them with constructive thoughts. This is the key to heaven; it is in your hands. from the teachings of P. Yogananda,
