Imagination

IMAGINATION CAN WORK FOR YOU

First you must understand what imagination is. It is condemned very much nowadays. The moment you hear the word "imagine" you will say this is useless, we want something real, not imaginary. But imagination is a reality, it is a capacity, it is a potentiality within you. You can imagine. That shows that your being is capable of imagination. This capacity is a reality. Through this imagination you can destroy or you can create yourself, that depends on you. Imagination is very powerful. It is potential power. What is imagination? It is getting into an attitude so deeply that the very attitude becomes reality. For example, you may have heard about a technique which is used in Tibet.

They call it heat yoga. The night is cold, snow is falling, and the Tibetan lama is standing naked under the open sky. The temperature is below zero. You would simply start dying, you would freeze. But the lama is practicing a particular technique - he is imagining that his body is a burning fire and he is imagining that he is perspiring -the heat is so much that he is perspiring. And he actually starts perspiring although the temperature is below zero and even the blood should freeze. He starts perspiring. What is happening? This perspiration is real, his body is really hot - but this reality is created through imagination.
Once you get in tune with your imagination, the body starts functioning. You are already doing many things without knowing that it is your imagination working. Many times you create illnesses just through imagination; you imagine that now this disease is here, infectious, it is all over the place.