Think Positive?

   We all hear day and night how some people advise us to 'think positive'. Man is a thinking animal and thinking is a continuous process from birth till death. The mind is the thinking machine. Its work is to think. Mind thinks with the help and support of 'desire'. There is no work for the mind if there is no desire in the jiva. The desire starts with breathing and 'to breathe' itself is the desire. we see people lying in coma in the ICU of the hospitals, unconscious, but breathing! The Life-force, Prana, is there and the body works! There is no reason why the person should live in this condition, but for the desire to breathe. May be, there is a hidden cause and it may be attributed to past karma, the unfulfilled desires of past lives of the jiva?

   Now, what is there to think? Thinking as prompted by desire knows no other reason! The interesting fact is that the function of the mind depends on moods of the individual that dictate ('chitta'). This again  is whimsical. The mind is incapable of knowing what the consequences are unless the Intellect (buddhi) governs the function of the chitta, Most of the time, it is the ego (ahankara) that dictates the buddhi, manas and the chitta to do what it wants and consequently the jiva suffers. The jiva suffers due to the whimsical behavior of the ahankara, buddhi, manas, and the chitta. The joy or suffering is inconsequential to the jivatman, but the body and mind suffers for lack of support of the soul, Atman, in its pursuits!
  Mind (manas) has no intelligence of its own and it depends on the Intellect (buddhi) for guidance! But the ego does not permit the mind to look to buddhi and tries to dictate according to its whim nd fancy. In case the Mind (manas) looks to Consciousness (prajnya) there is a chance for the jiva to decide what is good for it and think positive! But, the jiva has to strive hard to get the prajnya to assist it in its journey! The ego rules the roost?
  The jiva attains to its goal of emancipation, liberation, break the shackles of the chain of the cycle of repeated births and deaths only when the light of the Consciousness falls on the buddhi, and this enlightened buddhi drives the mind and the senses to work for the spiritual upliftment and finally emancipation through 'enlightenment', the state of the Buddha!  
   

   Hence what all the mind does depends on its stage of development. As at present, the mind is not well developed in the humans and the jivas have to get refined by repeated births and develop into a highly spiritual, divine state!