Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-07
NAPOLEON WON BY
CON Gen TRAT|ON
BABA BHARATI TALKS ABOUT
THOUGHT FORCE
Says Great Military Hero Is No Mys-
terry to Thinking Minds-Focused
Forces Pierce Any
Mystery

Baba Bharati discoursed last night in
Krishna temple, taking for his subject
Thought Force" He said in part
People in this matter-of-fact age
have strange ideas of facts about them
selves. AS most people nowadays think
most about their body and make most
Of it, they do not put much value upon
their thoughts. This is speaking about
the majority Of men and women of this
age. The minority only, put more
value on their thoughts than on their
body. Happily this minority is grow
ing. The mist of their physical sense
is clearing from before the mental Wis
ion of more and more people daily.
They are finding out that mans mind
is his real self. And even many among
these are finding out the deeper truth
that the real self of man is the soul, of
which the mind is the medium of ex-
preston.
Yes man is his thoughts, ideas and
sentiments. Man is not his body The
body is but the encasement Of the mind,
the medium through which the mind
acts and performs its outer functions.
Without the mind the body is a non
entity-a living corpse. The force Of
the mind is the force of the body; ii is
the minds force that acts through the
body. The body, unsupported by the
mind, can perform no action. The mind
even of the weakest minded man is
master of the body. The body of the
greatest coward is under the spell of
his mind. He acts physically through
fear, and fear is a thought-a current
of the mind, a powerful force of the
mind. Similarly. the bravest man is
prompted to action by the forces of his
mind-his thoughts. Napoleon Bona
parte was a slight little corporal yet
with the forces Of his mind he over
awed his large tall, brave adversaries,
from the vary beginning of his mill
tary career. Napoleon was his thoughts
his powerful, all-daring, overmaster-
ing thoughts, whose forces swept every
thing before them, dazed his enemies,
dazzled history.
Napoleon No Mystery
"They are now calling Napoleon the
greatest mystery in the history Of west
ern humanity. To the student of the
inner man this greatest military hero
Of the west is neither a mystery nor
miracle. The source of Napoleon's mys-
terious power he discovers within the
depths of his mind-in his minds power
Of concentration. The forces of Ma
poleon's mind We're so regulated that
they could be focused in a twinkle at
his will. And these focused forces
pierced into any subject brought before
his mind and found a solution. These
focused mental forces again, by their
| intense magnetism, attracted all around
| him to his personality and achieved all
his victories The power of an abso-
lutely concentrated mind is the great
est power in the world. The career of
Napoleon shows concusively that man
is his mind, not his body.
"a great hero of the western world
many thousand times greater than Ma
poleon, hero at whose name Napoleon
| bowed in all humility curing his hum
BILE days in st. Helena, was Christ Jesus
OF Nazareth. And yet the source of
| Christs thousand times greater great
ness was within the depths of his
mind. Christ was nothing but his pow
erful thoughts, as Napoleon was.
| Though the ones thoughts were Of
peace, the others We're of war The
machinery which produced the miracu-
lous results in both cases, was the TO-
cused forces Of the mind. Both achieved
greatness-one ephemeral, enmity-pro-
VOking, the other undying, peace-instill-
ing and lovc-radiating. The thought
force Of Jesus Christ has penetrated
the vistas Of ages and is sWaying the
minds Of men today with the ieweled
scepter Of love, his love Of God and
man. Christs thought force is the
greatest strength and treasure Of the
western world compared to which it's
material Waclth, military power and
scientific achievements are as nothing.
| Christ is the only asset Of western civ
| ilization, though he does not belong to
| that civilization"