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talk. The audience afterwards was very enthusiastic in their clapping and it seemed like they were expressing gratitude to someone else and not to me even though I had been the only speaker.
During the break, a young man came up and told me that he had seen a perfect image of Lord Parsva just above my head while I was speaking. I was very surprised. Another man who had also been in the audience, commented that my long grey hair had been standing straight up from my head as if some electric current were passing through it. A third man said that great cobra snakes were coiled around the peaceful head of Lord Parsva, just as can be seen in the sculpture and pictures of ancient times.
The three young men then got into a discussion about the various saints and mystics who have been to Earth and whether or not their energy is still here and can be awakened. I told them that I thought all the great religious leaders-Jesus Christ, Lord Buddha, Zorothustra, Lord Mahavira, Lord Krishna, Moses, Socrates and others-have left their auras or energy fields on Earth and that they can be awakened if we use our consciousness correctly. I told them that when the image of Lord Parsva appeared to me I began to think that I was Lord Parsva over and over again and it became true! By imagination and its creative power, you can develop yourself into anyone and you can change the form of your appearing
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