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401 lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life" (Matt. XIX. 29). It simply means that by giving up the pleasures of the senses and the ties with which we are bound to the world, we become heir to the hundred-fold joy of Selfrealization, and come into life eternal.
Modern psychology has demonstrated the fact that the same stimulus when applied to different nerves of sensation produces the specific sensations peculiar to them, e.g., when an electric current is made to act on the auditory nerve, sound heard, when applied to the gustatory nerve, a sensation of taste is experienced, and so forth. It has also been demonstrated that the application of different stimuli to the same nerve invokes sensations peculiar to that nerve, as for instance, whatever be the nature of the stimulus which may be applied to the optic nerve it will only perceive colour and form. Besides this, will is also capable of affecting the sensory nerves by inner concentration. In proof of this, we may mention the familiar instance of the sight of a steaming dish which makes the mouth water. In cases of great hunger even the actual flavour of the food which is being cooked is felt and relished in the mouth. Similarly, the mere mention of the name of the beloved sends the blood tingling through one's veins, and, at times, also causes the same sensation
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*The word Jesus' signifies the soul (see the next chapter); hence the sense of this passage is that everyone that hath forsaken home, relations and other worldly things for the welfare of his soul shall enjoy a hundred-fold prosperity in his future incarnations, and finally also obtain nirvâna,
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