The Source of Thoughts. Questioner: Sadhguru, what is the source of thoughts?
Sadhguru: In terms of content, the source of your thoughts is the accumulation of your sense perceptions. In terms of substance, a thought is just a reverberation – you can give it any form. When the reverberations become continuous, the thought process picks up momentum. Through meditation, you calm down the reverberations into stillness. The reverberation that you experience as thought right now would on a lower scale of evolution be instinct. Instinct is a lower form of thought, or thought is a higher form of instinct. A thought can be formed one way or the other – it can be contradictory. We can say instinct is a lower form of thought, or thought is a higher form of instinct – whichever way you want to look at it.
In the evolutionary process, as the body evolves, the reverberations that happen within also evolve from instinct to thought. In a way, the process of Shoonya meditation is just that. You may also like. Night Owls Smarter: A New Study Suggests That Late-To-Bed-Late-To-Rise Leads To Greater Workplace Success. A new study suggests the early riser has only more time for mediocrity.
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