Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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THOUGHT FORCE
subjectively we call emotive. But it cannot go beyond without being transformed. Nevertheless, like force in general, it cannot remain in isolation, it escapes in disguise." Prof. Ochorowicz says further "Thought stays at home, as the chemical action of a battery remains in the battery; it is represented by its dynamic correlate, called in the case of the battery, a current, and in the case of the brain-I know not what; but whatever its name may be, it is the dynamic correlate of thought. I have chosen the term 'dynamic correlate.' There is something more than that; the universe is neither dead nor void. A force that is transmitted meets other forces, and if it is transformed only little by little, it usually limits itself to modifying another force at its own cost, though without suffering perceptibly thereby. This is the case particularly with forces that are persistent, concentrated, well seconded by their medium; it is the case with the physiological equilibrium, nervic force, psychic force, ideas, emotions, tendencies. These modify environing forces without themselves disappearing; they are but imperceptibly transformed, and if the next man is of a nature exceptionally well adapted to them, they gain in inductive action."-Thoughts are Things pp. 22 to 25.
What Prof. Ochorowicz calls dynamic correlate of thought has not been yet scientifically named and is known by various names such as 'thought force', 'dynamic thought, and 'mind power'. These terms, however, cover the static as well as dynamic phases of the thought-currents. The better terms would be thought-vibra tions', 'thought-waves', 'mental currents', etc. "The matter of names, however, is not important, the vital fact being that every person is constantly sending forth mental currents of different degrees of power, character and quality, which often travel to great distances, and which coming in contact with the minds of persons in whom is manifested a degree of harmony with the character of the thought, there tends to induce or reproduce the original thought, emotion, feeling, desire or other mental state." Thoughts are Things pp.-29-30.
Prof. Ochorowicz says "It (thought) is propagated more widely if it assumes the character which subjectively we call emotive." There are, however, "certain fixed persistent abstract ideas which form mental images as clearly defined as the strongest feeling, desire, or emotion-for instance, the result of the concentrated thought of an inventor, scientist, or artist, which produces a mental image of a remarkable