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with the suggestion. So, suggestion is indeed a great and potent factor in shapping the destinies of other people, and that is the reason, why we Jains always say, that even in the mind, the purest things should be thought, because that sort of mental activity acts as a suggestion. Therefore when you are engaged in your daily affairs, think in the purest way, so that this may influence other people for good, as we know at any rate, that suggestion is a great force,
The other school says that the suggestion is not important as a factor in producing hypnotice sleep. Two different means are employed for the purpose of producing the same result. When a person either on account of suggestion or a change in the physiological or nervous condition falls into a sleep, it cannot be the natural sleep. Under ordinary circumstances the person or the patient left to himself is not desirous of sleep, and he is not willing to go to bed. There is no desire to do that; but on account of suggestion or a change in his condition which is inade by some other person, he is put to sleep. That cannot be the natural sleep, which will come only, when the different organs of the body are not able to work, when they repuire rest, and then the natural result is sleep. So this hypnotic sleep is different from the natural sleep. It is not different so far as the actual manifestation is concerned; we even see that it is of the same kind; but tbe causes of the sleep are different, and if the cause is different, the result must also be different.
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