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union with science, can illumine many mysteries. Ancient books were consulted with a view to determine the form of preksha. There is a mention of special psychic centres in the old texts. Their number is variously given as five, seven or nine. But according to modern books on physiology, psychic centers number about 700. How are these centres related to one another? How helpful can they be in the direction of character-transformation? Facts like these can be known very precisely and made use of. Similarly, science can furnish authentic information about the endocrine system, bio-electricity, chemical changes taking place in the body, etc. Two years of experimentation have also established the fact that the method of preksha is beneficial from all the three viewpoints-physical, mental and spiritual. There is nothing dogmatic about this technique. The new elements have been assimilated in it with as much ease as the old. Viewed thus, it is our own creation. Yet there is nothing imaginary about it and, therefore, it is an expression of our ancient tradition, and is now being presented in a new way in a new environment. We firmly believe that newer experiments in the future would lend to it a unique distinction.
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