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RE-INCARNATION.
855 will is the magnetic fluid, which radiates in all directions from the person of great yogis and saints. Jesus referred to this fluid when, on being touched by an unclean woman, he said that virtue had gone out of him. It is this virtue which is responsible for the engendering of that atmosphere of peace and love which invariably surrounds holy persons. The arrival of a Tirthamkara was heralded by the appearance of bloom on trees out of season, and wolf and sheep invariably sat by the side of each other in His presence. Even the mountains where Jaina ascetics performed their holy meditation are known to have offered resistance to the passage of vimanas (air-craft) flying over them. All this was the effect of the munis' personal magnetism. Their magnetic radiations impinging on the surrounding matter created such an atmosphere of holiness, love and impregnability in their vicinity that all those who came in contact with it were overpowered by its powerful vibrations, forgot their personal animosities and unholy pursuits, and were unable to penetrate into it, except to show reverence to the Source whence emanated those radiations of virtue and power.
Those who come under the influence of such an atmosphere of human magnetism, as is described above, undergo two opposite kinds of experience, according to their own nature. Persons of a holy and pious temperament feel exalted, but those who are evilly inclined and vicious find then selves overpowered by the higher vibrations of the ascetic Will, and soon come to grief, if determined to oppose its rhythmic pulsation.
Investigation into the nature of the causes which
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