Page 394 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

own sastras, that God is the breath of breath, "Pranasya Pranah.". If that Supreme being or Prana is given into our heart, that is what is called 'Ujjivanam,' upward movement of the soul, a new life is got. The spiritual life, this Ujjivanam, he said he would do. It is like a tonic administered into the system, or in the language of Homoeopathy, very highly potentised Divine force is introduced into the heart, which makes the thought within us of the same nature as itself, though poisonous now. It converts our mind into an efficient, wonderful, creative force or life-giving force.
All of us are said to be suffering from 'mind', now a days. Everybody wants that his thought should be controlled. And we have got all sorts of thoughts, the most material. I mean, even the most cruel thoughts are within us, hatred, cruelty, desire, avarice, delusion, fantastic notions. All these things are within us. Now these things could be immediately changed by the introduction of this highly potentised stuff of God's thoughts. The idea is that that Supreme thought has become grosser and grosser till it has become what it is, a poison. When it became centred in your mind and in mine and has become the instrument of our thinking itself, our thought has become vitiated, corrupted by our own perverse or inverse desires.
So the only cure is God, and it was realized by many people, saints, and the Bhaktas, who said God's name is the one thing that will make everything else go out. But, how to utter the name? Not by repeating it will you get that state. The name must mean something to you for transforming your inner consciousness or thought. For some time we thought in the hands of some great men the name did work, but later on, as you find it, even if you write a thousand or a crore of times the name Sri Ram nothing happens. The mystic charm with which it was working like a talisman in previous ages refused to work, even though it was told that, in Kaliyuga the name of God is quite enough. But what happened? Therefore our people said that the man who gives the Diksha or mantra must be of the highest calibre. And then what is more important is not the mantra but the force with which he introduces or gives it to you. But if that force has become gross and not highly potentised, as I put it, it is not the highest thought of God. Then what happens? It becomes useless, ineffective and then you complain like many people, "Sir, drug has not worked", because you have not been given the highly potentised one, and the potentised nature of the drug is what is necessary.