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[Lord Mahavira's Twenty Seventh Birth
producing a good offspring. The will-power of the parents is the basic principle of the formation of the body and limbs; and will power gives beauty and colour, health and strength. Parents will forms mind and intellect of the children. Just as the photoes of man taken at a time when he is angry,happy or sad reflects his various moods and inner feelings at that particular time, in the same way the quality of will power which is active at the time of conception and during pregnancy stage, is reflected from the looks, the nature and the temperament of the child.
This will-power begins to act from the time of menstruation and continues its action until the child is weaned from the breast. This is the time when the parents can make their child good or bad as they will. Now we shall account for the effect of the parents' will power on their children at different times. THE EFFECT OF WILL-POWER AT THE TIME
OF MENSTRUATION. Books on medicine such as the 'Sharira Kalpadruma' etc., say that a menstruating woman should live in solitude, in order to make her will-power strong; and when she takes her bath on the fourth day, she must see her bust or some other hand some person at that very moment for it is a rule that the child that she is to bear would be of the same colour and beauty as the man whom she saw at the time of taking her bath. 1 HE EFFECT OF WILL-POWER AT THE TIME
OF CONCEPTION. The opinion of the learned phycians is that child takes the form and colour of the man whom the parents, have
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