If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

The saying condenses a common theme in Sivananda’s practical Vedanta: the mind’s habitual thoughts shape one’s lived reality. By warning that fixation on catastrophe or death can “hasten” ruin, it stresses the self-fulfilling power of fear, rumination, and suggestion—psychologically (through paralysis, anxiety, and poor choices) and spiritually (through weakening will and faith). The second half proposes a discipline of constructive attention: confidence and faith are presented as inner forces that organize energy, encourage decisive action, and open experience. The emphasis is less on denying hardship than on training thought to be purposeful, courageous, and oriented toward growth.