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CHAPTER VIL
MODERN SCIENCE & LAW OF KARMA
Friends. people have blind faith in the modern science and that is the reason for further elucidation of this subject from this perspective. If any noted scientists of today were to declare his assent to the doctrine of Karma, the modern man would at once follow suit. And if that scientist happened to be an alien, his conversion would be all the sooner. With what speed a draught of water is gulped down the throat ? With speed swifter than that, he would understand the talks of that foreign scientist.
Friends, you are all modern men and votaries of modernism. Let me then bring to your notice what a foreign experimenter Alexander Cannon has to say on the subject. This gentleman was a devoted student of science of hypnotism. He had conducted many experiments in this field. What he came to know and understand from all these experiments, he has incorporated in his small book named "The Power Within ". In the sixteenth chapter of this book, he has proved the existence of a previous birth and reincarnation of the soul from his experiments on hypnotism.
In that chapter on page 170 in para 44 he says, "For years, the theory of reincarnation was a nightmare to me and I did my best to disprove it and I even argued with my trance subjects to the effect that they were talking nonsense and yet the years went by, one subject after another told me the same story, inspite of different and varied conscious beliefs, in effect until now, well over a thousand cases have been so investigated and I have to admit that there is such a theory as reincarnation ".
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