Our minds generate about 60,000 thoughts per day, so to believe that they will be rosy and filled with good karma is Pollyanna thinking. Negative thoughts or disturbing emotions emerge within us every day. A little of this is normal, but if you permit those detrimental emotions to reside within yourself, strengthening them through wrongful actions, evil thoughts and bitter words, then you will be creating bad karma. Your duty is to get ride of those negative thoughts ASAP.

Close evaluation of the scriptures tells us that even Christ and other great souls were not exempt from experiencing downbeat thoughts, fear, anger, sadness, or any other kind of negative emotion, though they were always trying to hastily eradicate those obstacles in their evolutionary process.

So the next time you have a wicked thought, please remember the law of karma because the longer that thought resides within you, the more you will suffer. Tomorrow we will examine good suffering vs. bad suffering.