Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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INTRODUCTION
degree of depth and clearness, from which emanate thought waves of unusual power and vitality." Thoughts are Things-p. 33.
We may refer the reader who may be anxious to pursue the subject further to another work by the same writer entitled "Thought Force in Business and Everyday Life", which will convince him how the dynamic force acting in all matters relating to the Practical Mental Science is really 'Thought' and how it developes into personal magnetism or psychic influence giving distinct personality to each. Again the whole subject has been treated by what is termed the new Psychology and has been set forth succinctly by the same writer in his work "The New Psychology." This work is principally relied on and utilised while treating the subject in the following pages, and the writer acknowledges his indebtedness to the learned author thereof. NEW THOUGHT-NEW PSYCHOLOGY
A new set of psychologists began working along the lines of a utilitarian psychology-a psychology that could be used in every day life, a psychology that was workable. They unconsciously worked along the lines of what is now called the pragmatic school of thought -"the school that holds that the truth and value of a science, philosophy, or idea, consists of its value when applied and set to work." An important feature of the new psychology has been the raising of certain little-understood phases of mental activity from the region of the occult and mystical, and the placing of them among the recognised and at least partially understood phenomena of psychology." But what was formerly regarded as a part of "abnormal psychology" especially that wonderful field of mental activity outside the range of consciousness, generally known as the "sub-conscious", "subjective", or "subliminal" fields, is now freely accorded a place in the norinal psychology. Not only that, but "these fields are now regarded as containing within them at least nine-tenths of our mental activities." "The New Psychology has succeeded in showing that, so far as its investigations have extended, there is no super-natural-that every
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