Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru, of Mystics and Mistakes.

Sadguru, how can I remove negative thoughts from my mind?

There are no subtractions and divisions in our mind.

There is only addition and multiplication.

I will just remove negative thoughts

and I will have positive thoughts.

All the best, it's not going to work.

It's just that you need to pay little attention as to how it functions.

You will see there is a distinction between what is you and what you have gathered.

See the way the question is asked

and also the way normally it's addressed is

people think there is something called as negative thought

and positive thought they want to remove the negative thoughts

and have only positive thoughts.

For such people, I would ask them to just experiment

for 10, 15 seconds.

Let them forcefully remove one thought from their mind.

For example, next 10 seconds,

just don't think of a monkey.

Try not to think of a monkey for next 10 seconds.

You will see you will be full of monkeys.

So what I'm saying is,

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