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Let me give you an example.

There is a wall in your room. You keep staring at it very often.
Imagine that the wall has a few cracks. If you keep looking at these
cracks, you will feel that you can see the face of a man in it. If you do
this activity every day, soon you will find that the face becomes
clearer with each passing day. If you start thinking more about it, you
will develop an urge to find that face in real. What if there is a person
with this face living somewhere out there in this world? if you have a
weak heart you will get scared and will stop looking at the wall. You

will get disturbing thoughts like: What if there is a supernatural
element in this room? Is this face a ghost or some kind of spirit?
What if I am alone at home in the night, and the person with this face
comes out of the wall? Is he trying to communicate something? If
you think about it all the time then it is possible that you would start

dreaming about it too. After all, our dreams have very strong
connection with our thoughts.

This is only an example that I have provided to prove what can
happen if we unnecessarily think about something a lot. But had you
been a person with a positive mind, you probably would have
conceded that with time, such cracks are bound to be visible in all

walls. What is so different about this wall anyway—there are many
other walls in this world.

Our thinking gives birth to possibilities in which we get stuck, and
over time we start believing that they are real. The way to do away
with these thoughts is—we must do all our work with Sakshi Bhaav,

(witnessing it all from the position of a third person). What is Sakshi
Bhaav? Let us assume that life is nothing but a big theatre and we
all have a role to play. Whatever role we have been asked to play in
the drama, we will carry it out to the best of our abilities because we
know that it is only a play and not reality. We will not bother much for
our actions and words in the play. When an actor knows that
whatever is taking place in the drama is fictional, he will not get

affected by whatever is happening on the stage. When we look at all