Question : Why do we get negative thoughts? What should be done to remove them?
Answer :

1. When we meditate regularly our chitta becomes strong. As it gets stronger and stronger what ever you think starts happening. First of all you should not have any evil feelings towards any one. You should not think bad about anyone. Because if you think good then your chitta will go on the good things about others and if you think bad then your chitta will go on their bad things and wherever the chitta will go, it will absorb what ever is there. This is the reason you are striking the axe on your own foot by making your chitta go on other’s bad things.
2. Where work comes, there comes ego. When we start doing the work the ego starts flowing in us in a very subtle way. Meditation is above any rituals etc. Meditation is done by being in middle nadi, where as we go in surya nadi when we work. Due to ego our state becomes imbalance.
3. Whenever anyone comes to you with problems, tell them to write it in a paper and submit it to help line (prarthana dham) for prayers because the moment our chitta goes in their problems, it absorbs all the bad energy and becomes a garbage can. So do not listen to anyone’s problem. Become an messenger of the message. As it’s not necessary to open the garbage can and see what’s in it, in the same way the more you will listen you will absorb more bad energy.
4. Save yourself from others. Save yourself from those who tell you ‘Aree, the moment you came, it felt like Swamiji’s vibrations came’. Understand them as your enemies. They will make you rise and will then make you fall in a very hard way. Such people dig the grave for others. The one, who want to dig, will dig it and one who wants it to be dug, will make it dug. So we have to save ourselves from such people who praise us because even gods like to be praised.