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Sarasvati (Sk.). The same as Vâch, wife and daughter of Brahmâ, produced from one of the two halves of his body. She is the goddess of speech and of sacred or esoteric knowledge and wisdom. Also called Sri.

“…thoughts are things--have tenacity, coherence, and life… they are real entities.”

“Ingratitude is not among our vices, nor do we imagine you would wish to advise it. . . .” --Mahatma Letters

Compassion is no attribute. It is the Law of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya's SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love eternal. –The Voice of the Silence

“Every thought…evolved with energy from the brain, creates nolens volens a shape. This ought to make us more cautious about our thoughts.” –H.P. Blavatsky

“Words are things. With me and in fact. Upon the lower plane of social intercourse they are things, but soulless and dead because that convention in which they have their birth has made abortions of them. But when we step away from that conventionality, words become alive in proportion to the reality and purity of the thought that is behind them. …Let us use with care those living messengers called words.”-- W. Q. Judge

"…thinking of oneself as this, that, or the other, is the chief factor in the production of every kind of psychic or even physical phenomena. The words “whosoever shall say to this mountain be thou removed and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt . . . . that thing will come to pass,” are no vain words." -SD II, 59

"Let a man be watchful of speech-irritation. Let him control his speech. Abandoning the sins of speech let him practice virtue with his speech. …Well controlled indeed are the wise; they have mastery over body, tongue, and mind." (Lord Buddha, Dhammapada XVII, 12 - XVII, 14)

In Lord Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, the third step is that Right Speech: 

The Third is Right Discourse. Govern the lips

As they were palace-doors, the King within;

Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words

Which from that presence win. --The Light of Asia

 

Careless, loose and inordinate speech is a characteristic of our extrovert and restless civilization. We do not understand the value of deliberate and careful speech because we are ignorant of the source of this precious faculty and totally unaware of the power of the spoken word. Our speech is too often impulsive and hence thoughtless and meaningless...Much of the confusion and turmoil of our world today is reflected in our irresponsible use of speech. But the reverse is equally true: our foolish and wrong use of words adds to the prevailing confusion and is a major factor in creating tensions and bringing about misunderstandings. We are often divided today through words. If we could purify and control our speech we would tone up our moral fiber, improve our character, and thus become better able to seek for the solutions of the numerous problems we are facing...All who dream of a better world should watch words, which anon save us and anon damn us. But for anyone aspiring to live the spiritual life control of speech is a sine qua non, and all the Great Ones have enjoined the purification and restraint of speech.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna describes thus the mortifications (tapas) of speech: 

“Gentle speech which causes no anxiety, which is truthful and friendly, and diligence in the reading of the Scriptures, are said to be austerities of speech.” (XVII, 15)

"In any action five agents are necessary, declares Krishna, for its accomplishment. "These are the substratum, the agent, the various sorts of organs, the various and distinct movements, and, with these, as fifth, the presiding deities." (XVIII, 14) 

"But what is speech? Speech is the use of words as audible symbols to establish communication with our fellow beings. Speech is a prerogative of man and is rooted in his own latent divinity. Words are the outward human symbols of "eternal Thought in the Eternal Mind." Thus the metaphysical counterpart or divine prototype of human speech is Vach, or the Verbum, the Voice and Word, the creative Logos. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John, I, 1) 

In speech resides the power of sound and this is the scientific basis for the art of mantras. That power of sound unites itself in human speech to the language of symbols. For what are words if not symbols? Symbols which mirror and project forth our thoughts. The mind of each one of us is reflected in his speech. Confused speech denotes a confused mind; loose and irrelevant speech, a distracted mind; precise and coherent speech, a lucid mind; and so on for every type of mind...Our feelings too are expressed through our speech. The general quality of our moral nature as also the mood of the moment show themselves forth in our choice of words, as also in the tone which we use to utter those words.Thus words are instinct with a life of their own, a life which continues after we, their progenitors, have begotten them and sent them out into the world. How wise the injunction of the old precept which states: "Watch thy tongue; out of it are the issues of Life!Indeed, life and death can both come from words; for words are builders and also destroyers. Words can unite and also divide; words can heal, but also wound; words can bless and curse; reconcile or antagonize; enlighten or delude and mislead; reveal or hide.

"Yes, the spoken word is a great magician. Let us endeavor to heed the word of wisdom and to learn "to use with care those living messengers called words."

The idea that things can cease to exist and still BE, is a fundamental one in Eastern psychology. Under this apparent contradiction in terms, there rests a fact of Nature to realise which in the mind, rather than to argue about words, is the important thing. A familiar instance of a similar paradox is afforded by chemical combination. 

The question whether Hydrogen and Oxygen cease to exist, when they combine to form water, is still a moot one, some arguing that since they are found again when the water is decomposed they must be there all the while; others contending that as they actually turn into something totally different they must cease to exist as themselves for the time being; but neither side is able to form the faintest conception of the real condition of a thing, which has become something else and yet has not ceased to be itself. 

Existence as water may be said to be, for Oxygen and Hydrogen, a state of Non-being which is “more real being” than their existence as gases; and it may faintly symbolise the condition of the Universe when it goes to sleep, or ceases to be, during the “Nights of Brahmâ”—to awaken or reappear again, when the dawn of the new Manvantara recalls it to what we call existence.” -The Secret Doctrine I, 55

There is a very important thing you should not overlook. Every time you harshly and unmercifully criticize the faults of another, you produce an attraction to yourself of certain quantities of elementals from that person. They fasten themselves upon you and endeavor to find in you a similar state or spot or fault that they have left in the other person. It is as if they left him to serve you at higher wages, so to say.

"Then there is that which I referred to in a preceding conversation, about the effect of our acts and thoughts upon, not only the portion of the astral light belonging to each of us with its elementals, but upon the whole astral world. If men saw the dreadful pictures imprinted there and constantly throwing down upon us their suggestions to repeat the same acts or thoughts, a millennium might soon draw near. The astral light is, in this sense, the same as a photographer's negative plate, and we are the sensitive paper underneath, on which is being printed the picture. We can see two sorts of pictures for each act. One is the act itself, and the other is the picture of the thoughts and feelings animating those engaged in it. You can therefore see that you may be responsible for many more dreadful pictures than you had supposed. For actions of a simple outward appearance have behind them, very often, the worst of thoughts or desires."

- W. Q. Judge, “Laws Governing Elementals” - http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/laws-governing-elementals.htm