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THE HOLY TRINITY.
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true. Man is ignorant of the vast store of knowledge entombed in his memory, because of the sensual tendencies of his soul, summed up in the lower mind, which, thinned and sharpened like the point of a pencil, leads him by the nose in the pursuit of worldly lusts. But the rishis turned their backs resolutely on the world, and acquired the memory of their past incarnations, that is, lives.
The difference between the capacious memory of an illumined saint and our faulty faculty of that name lies in the fact that in us it remains in a sub-conscious state, owing to our inability to set the attention free from slavery to the senses. Experimental hypnotism has, however, revealed the fact that even our stumbling memory is capable of performing wonderful feats, whenever attention is disengaged from one's worldly concerns and made to dive into the depths of the sub-conscious, also called the subjective mind.
Even knowledge of the future is possible to the being who withdraws his attention from the body. It is known that the munis not only perceived the past lives of men, but their future incarnations as well.
The difficulties which seem to surround this kind of knowledge vanish the moment we recognize the fact that all changes of disposition or character, which is the sole cause of future births, are stored up in the form of modifications of the substance of the soul, so that if one's vision were keen enough to penetrate through the veils of matter and perceive these changes, one could without difficulty discover the nature of the seeds of rebirth. Further, since Nirvana is only the establishing
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