Thought first or action first? The answer to this question is first thought and then action. Because a person thinks first and acts accordingly. Before doing any movement or action, a person thinks that what action should I do and how should I do it? This thought comes to the mind of a person, and he acts according to the answer given by his mind. Therefore, before doing any action or action, a person thinks and acts accordingly. Of course, if thoughts are good, a person acts well and if thoughts are bad, a person acts badly. This means that as thought, so does action. That is, when thoughts change, action or action changes or happens.
The fact is that if someone is doing a good work, they support or oppose it and if someone is doing a bad work, they support or oppose that work. Good or truthful work should be supported without opposing it, but some people do not do so and oppose such work and help bad work, this is a mistake that many people make.
It is not that helping or accepting a good deed increases that work and opposing a bad deed makes that work disappear, but depending on how powerful the opponent is, that work is suspended for a while but does not stop, because when the opposition of the opponents decreases, the bad karma starts again, so opposing the bad deed does not stop that work forever, for this, one must oppose the bad deed, but more importantly, one must oppose the thought from which this bad deed was born, it is important to stop or destroy that thought, but the opponents ignore it, this should not happen, because as thoughts are like actions, therefore bad thoughts must be killed, thoughts must be opposed, bad deeds must be opposed but without stopping there, it is very necessary to oppose to kill the thoughts behind that bad deed or it is important to change such thoughts, but the fact is that some people oppose only bad deeds but do not oppose them when bad thoughts come, and this is where they go wrong. Because until bad thoughts die, bad deeds will not end. Of course, what is good and what is bad? What is true and what is false? What is right and what is wrong? How to park this? This is an important question? The answer to this question is that logic and experience and experiment means trying to find the truth, someone said something and secretly listened to it or saw something and believed it or read something and accepted it, this will not tell what is the truth. For this, logic, Hanuman, experience, experiment, and effort are the ways or means to find the truth. Only if this should be used step by step, right thinking and right action take place.
If opposing a work, program or action does not stop that work, then it is important to find and examine the thoughts from which that work is created and if they are wrong, oppose them and try to destroy them, without this there is no change, oppose the official or oppose the thought first? This question also arises before us, the answer to this is that, suppose someone rapes someone or injustice is done to someone, rather than trying to find the reason for that rape or injustice or investigating the thought behind it, one should first oppose such an act or deed, but instead of just opposing, one should also find out the thought behind it and such evil thoughts will not arise, some system should be created. Only then is change possible. Otherwise, such bad actions will continue to happen and they will continue to be opposed, but it is important and practical to think that this chain must be broken somewhere and sometime.
The reason why some people think well and some people think badly or even good people sometimes do bad deeds is because of this association and culture, although this is the case, where the environment or situation itself is bad, many times good culture does not exist, the reason why people behave badly is because of the wrong system. If there is a systematic breakdown, the situation changes and when the situation changes, the environment changes, that is, as the system, so does the situation, and as the situation, so does the situation, and as the situation, so do the thoughts, and as the thoughts, so do the people, and as the people, so do the actions, this sequence takes place and happens in that way. Therefore, one must oppose bad or wrong actions, but at the same time, one must also oppose the previous thought, only then will something change happen, otherwise the mind should understand that it is a matter of peace, that it should be peaceful, that it should be content, that it should be satisfied, what else is going to happen?
Author : Datta Tumwad.
Satyashodhak Samaj Nanded.
Date: 29 July 2025. Phone: 94 20 91 22 09.
