Back to the sphere of thoughts, I often mull over the topic, sometimes while driving around.
There is, I believe, a hierarchy of spheres of thought.
The higher level is made up of the vast spheres of thought of basic ideas which encompass the great dualities and myriads of sub-spheres within them. For example, the spheres of peace and war, of good and evil, of health and sickness.
All these dualities are created by God, so we might think that no matter which sphere we choose to tune into, that's the same since their original source is God.
Well, that's wrong, as Anandamoy is ready to underline. Every sphere has a sattvic quality that influences our spiritual evolution. In God's plans, we must choose the higher, spiritual, sattvic spheres, and abandon the tamasic ones, the ones related to evil, war, greed, sense indulgence and so on.
The wrong choice, that is, choosing the wrong sphere of thought, will bind us in matter, and vice versa.
I think your view of satvic verses tama’s is in line with what I’ve seen in spiritual experience as opposed to a random view of life and it’s events. Perhaps for some this brings an evolutionary perspective to such terms as peace and war, love and hate and other duality’s we witness around us. It may be seen as a line of thought that transforms and transcends such opposites. Although, it is not just a view, but an experience of life from a different perspective.
That is the thought that everything is based on a mirror of reality of what lies within us, a type of synchronous universe in contrast to the view that has existed so long here in the U.S. and the west; a haphazard reality with everything seen as coincidental.
As an example; we see autocratic and imperialist regimes in Europe and Asia. They are mirrors of forces attempting to thwart democracy and freedom of expression here in America. We also see leaders and people attempting to dominate nature and others in contrast to those who are living in harmony with nature and attempting to nurture and support nature and other people.
