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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
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The first need is to understand the real object of life, which is not simply to multiply the wants and to create unnecessary cravings and necessities, but to eliminate them. The idea of the civilization here is to multiply the wants and cravings of the material life and to use all means for questionable ends. What are we going to clo, after all ? We say that material progress is to be used only as a help to the spiritual progress. The first thing to understand is the real object of life, and then to follow out that object. The powers of levitation, etc., are powers of the juggler in comparison with the real spiritual powers.
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