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CHAPTER 4. TO BE DEAD DO NOTHING
WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS DESTROYED,
THE DREAM IS SEEN.
THE MIND IS THE MANTRA.
Mantra means that which creates energy by continuous repetition; the very repetition creates the
power. If any single thought is repeated continuously it is translated into action. The thought that
is repeated time and again begins to manifest in life. Whatever you are is the outcome of some
thoughts that have been repeated over and over again.
A great deal of research has been carried out on hypnosis. Modern psychology has been able to
penetrate hypnosis at its deepest levels. The basic principle of hypnosis is: if you want to convert
any thought into reality, repeat it as many times as possible. By repetition a line is first drawn, which
gradually becomes a path within the mind. It is just as if we dig a ditch and the ditch becomes a
canal. Very soon the thought begins to materialize.
There was a great French psychologist called Emile Coue, who cured thousands of people with the
help of mantra. Thousands of patients from all over the world used to go to him. His treatment was
very simple. He would tell the patient to repeat to himself: ”I am not ill. I am all right. I am becoming
healthy.” He was told to repeat this before going to bed, as soon as he awakened in the morning, and
as many times as he remembered during the day. A single thought was to be constantly repeated: I
am healthy! I am becoming healthier and healthier every day!
It seems to be a miracle. People with incurable diseases were cured by this small mantra. People
came to come from far and wide. But the trick is very small.
Ordinarily when you are cured, psychologists say that ninety percent of the work is done by
repetition. Medicine does only ten percent of the work. A patient takes medicine four times a
day, eight times a day. Each time he takes it he feels: Now I am going to get better for I have taken
the right medicine.
In homeopathic medicine the pills are no remedy in themselves, but all the same, they cure people
just as effectively as allopathic medicines. If a doctor whom you trust gives you just water, you will
be cured. It is not a question of medicine, but a question of your having faith in the doctor. The
faith becomes the repetition. The doctor who charges higher fees cures more people than the one
who charges less, for as your pocket gets lighter, your faith gets stronger. Besides, you feel that for
someone like yourself, only the very best treatment is good enough. Repetition....!
Psychologists have experimented with placebos, false medicine, but when the doctor prescribes
them, he pretends that it is regular medicine. The result of the experiments was amazing. Patients
with the same complaint were divided into two groups. One group was given the regular course of
treatment, whereas the other group was treated entirely with the placebo, plain water. Of course
they did not know it. They presumed, it was a medicine. At the end of the treatment there were as
many cures in the group which received the placebo as in the first group. This means that water was
as effective a cure as the usual medicine. This is why so many people respond to a cure when it is
first discovered; they are convinced that now the right cure has been found. Patients all around the
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