Thoughts are of various types: first, thoughts regarding the existing environment; second, thoughts regarding past environment; third, thoughts without environment; and fourth, fantastic thoughts.
Seated int the examination hall, the students think only about their question papers. These are all thoughts concerning the existing environment.
A student who once stood first in class, but who later fails in his examinations, sighs and remembers his achievements of the past. These are thoughts concerning past environment.
The third is thoughts having no environment. When someone is suffering, then he paints brightly dreams and launches imaginary balloons in his mind.
When people mentally combine some part or whole of an entity, with a part or whole of another entity, and then with a part or whole of still another entity - and by blending all these component parts, create an altogether new entity in their imagination, this is called "fantastic thought". Students, who do not want to labour hard to acquire knowledge, imagine a God bestowing knowledge on them.
Whatever people see in imagination or think, the materials of these thoughts are all collected from the external world. People cannot think of anything which they have not previously seen or perceived with their sense organs.
Seated int the examination hall, the students think only about their question papers. These are all thoughts concerning the existing environment.
A student who once stood first in class, but who later fails in his examinations, sighs and remembers his achievements of the past. These are thoughts concerning past environment.
The third is thoughts having no environment. When someone is suffering, then he paints brightly dreams and launches imaginary balloons in his mind.
When people mentally combine some part or whole of an entity, with a part or whole of another entity, and then with a part or whole of still another entity - and by blending all these component parts, create an altogether new entity in their imagination, this is called "fantastic thought". Students, who do not want to labour hard to acquire knowledge, imagine a God bestowing knowledge on them.
Whatever people see in imagination or think, the materials of these thoughts are all collected from the external world. People cannot think of anything which they have not previously seen or perceived with their sense organs.