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terised by comparison, and this everlasting sense of comparison affects the aura too.
Meditation, of course, is a strong factor in making the aura radiant. Study, contemplation, discourse, discussion and thought are ever efficient means of ensuring purity. He who deliberately sets about broadening his thinking effortlessly succeeds in making his aura radiant.
A visitor from Calcutta related how he got a good idea from Maharajna Yuvacharya. "I must always preserve good thoughts in my mind". He got hold of this idea, and was very much alive to it all the day long. His practice matured. Bad thoughts dissolved of themselves. His relatives and acquaintances now feel that if all people become like him, there will never be any tension in the family. All the time he reminds himself, "I'll not entertain any harmful thought and I shall do nothing which might hurt another!" Such firm resolves help to make one's aura brighter and still brighter.
An unclean aura makes a man selfish, arrogant, immoderate, cruel and obstinate. Such a man does nothing in his life which might help him in his spiritual development. His consciousness is extraversive, his thinking is partial, his decisions have in them a touch of aggressive pertinacity, and he can never be intimate with another.
Q. Is there a criterion for determining the quality of a man's aura? A sadhak carries on his practice, but without knowing whither he is tending, what progress he has made, how long will he continue on his path?
Ans. That a man should practise sadhana and it should not bear any fruit, is impossible. Every good or bad action of man produces a result. If the results
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