The most elevated gem that one has is the treasure of thoughts. In fact, the quality of life depends on the quality of thoughts, the higher quality of thoughts, the higher level of the life is.
Spiritually, the treasure of thoughts is very powerful. With your thoughts, you can reach anywhere, higher in the sky or any country, in less than a second. The power of thought is a rocket that is even faster than an automatic rocket. You can go wherever you want, with your mind. Whether you are just sitting somewhere or doing something with the treasure and power of thoughts, you are able to experience yourself to be close to any person you wish to come close to. You can go to whatever place you want to. Whatever state of your mind you want to adopt, whether it is highest, of happiness, wasteful or of weakness, you can adopt it with a second's thought. You just have the thought: "I am an elevated person" and you will have an elevated stage and an elevated experience. The moment you have the thought, "I am a weak person, I do not have any power", then through that thought of just a second, your happiness disappears; you would experience signs of distress. However, the basis of both of these stages are your thoughts.
Whatever you are at present, you have achieved that stage on the basis of your thoughts. If you use the treasure of thoughts in a worthwhile way, your state of mind and your actions throughout the day remain very good. But when you waste your treasure of thoughts, you are not able to create the stage that you want, and all of you know that waste thoughts weaken your intellect and your state of mind. The intellects of those who have waste thoughts are weak and confused. They are not able to make accurate decisions. They are constantly confused. They are not able to decide clearly what to do and what not to do. The speed of waste thoughts is very fast. All of you experience waste thoughts, not sinful thoughts; you all experience waste thoughts. Because of their fast speed, you are not able to control them; you lose control of them. So, the sign of waste thoughts is distress, a loss of happiness, an upset mind and not experiencing pleasure in your life. But you look at gross factors and think, "I did not perform any wrong action, I did not make any mistake, yet why do I lack happiness? Why am I unhappy? Why do I not experience pleasure in my life? Why am I not able to focus my mind? What is the reason for this? There is a subtle mistake of wasting your treasures of thoughts. You have definitely increased your account of unnecessary wastage. A physical illness may not be something major initially; it only appears in a minor form but it could grow from something minor into something major. You are not able to see the minor form but it is visible in its major form. In the same way, if there is this wastage, you have not saved anything. the account of wastage keeps increasing, increasing and increasing. This is the result of wasting treasures. You are not even aware as to whether it has been wasted or used powerfully. Waste thoughts are faster. Save the power of your thoughts, and then check them at night. If you save something with attention, then even if the saving is very small, there is extra happiness of the saving. If you had to spend ten dollars or pounds and you saved one dollar or one pound, you would then experience the great happiness of having saved a pound. Use controlling power over your thoughts. The more you save in the account of elevated thoughts, the more this account will be useful at a time of need. Otherwise, just as with physical money, if you have not saved some, you are then deceived at a time of need, so here, too whenever you have a big test, the mind and intellect seem empty; there is no power.
