21 June 2015 - QA 4

Do you get negative thoughts? And if you do, how do you handle it?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You are not the thoughts at all, my dear. You are not the thoughts at all. Thoughts come and go, they hover.

I want to ask you a question. Do you ever get a thought to kill somebody? You will say, 'No, it is not natural to me'. Then why is someone else getting that thought? When you get negative thought, you feel everyone must be getting it.
As a child, you never had any negative thoughts. You had concerns, you had fears, but did you think bad about anybody? No! So you have experienced this yourself.
Take your memory back to when you were a three-year-old baby. How was the world for you? It is a small world. Is there any negativity there? Why?
Negativity is like an electron, it is at the circumference. At the core of your existence, it is all positive. So none of the negative thoughts are yours. They just come and hover around, so don’t hold on to them.