The origin of thought is s deep question. I wrote a blog on PATANJALISUTRAYOGA.BLOGSPOT.COM .In this blog I want to expand on that thought. We have thousands of thoughts and what is the origin of thought . In my other blog I talked about PARAA-PASHYANTI -MADHYAMA AND VAIKHARI as 4 languages in Vedic religion. But I think ALL our thoughts are related to our KARMA. Without a karma and impression that it causes we will have no thoughts. Say I see a cake and I have desire to eat it. The Karma in this particular thought is 2 folds . One is me SEEING THE CAKE . The Karma could be done by any of the organs of actions - KARMENDRIYE .In past I had tasted the cake - the Action or Karma of putting the cake in my mouth and then tasting it . I either liked it or hated it and so that lead to my DESIRE to eat the cake or not eat it. My previous experience from my previous Action leads to having a thought .If one has diabetes , than even though there is Desire or thought of eating and enjoying it , he will not eat it . So the thought or origin of the thought to eat comes from experience of the taste of cake and the thought of NOT EATING it also comes from experience of having raised blood sugar with eating. So our desires come from our Karma - Actions. If we had never tasted the cake there would not be thought to eat it and if we had not had experience of elevated blood sugar -no thought to avoid eating it would have come.
Our thoughts also come from our previous experiences even when we have not had any direct experience. If I see a red stove - I know that the hot stove coil will be red and so I will avoid it . But here my mind compares the redness that I see with my previous experience of having had burns with hor stove or someone telling that red stove is hot and so avoid it. The thought to avoid comes from my previous Karma.
If I see a tiger my previous experience direct or indirect from reading about tiger - will lead to thought of running away as quickly as possible . But a child of 2 years age who has never seen a tiger or had education about tiger will not have thought of running away. In fact it may think of tiger as LARGE CAT that he has seen and his thought would be to pat it . Again previous karma leads to the thought.
So all thoughts come from our own Karma.
