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The Jaina Philosophy Let us take ordinary clairvoyance or clairvoyance as it is generally known and practised. Of course we know there are many different kinds of clairvoyance, and that most of them mix up, or confuse one thing with another. We will divide that subject under two heads, induced or artificial clairvoyance, and natural clairvoyance. While the induced clairvoyance is produced artificially, of course, unless there is the seed of a certain force, nothing can be done, and a person altogether ignorant, having no ethical or moral idea, at the same time having no seed of that force in him, cannot see clairvoyantly. Why it is so, and why the ethical lessons would help such a person, I will speak later on.
In induced clairvoyance certain conditions are produced artificially by the operator, and the subtle body manifests activity. Under this induced activity many things may be seen. In the previous lectures I have explained the constitution of the subtle body, and it is clear to us that when the physical body stops its work, and ceases manifesting through its physical faculties, the subtle body finds ample opportunity to show its activities. When the subtle body is able to manifest these finer activities, it senses many ethereal vibrations not grasped by the physical body. This is the real secret of clairvoyance.
In induced clairvoyance, the person is asked not to exercise his sense consciousness. The vibrations of the external cannot make an impression on the physical organs where the sense consciousness is not exercised, but at the same time it is not a condition employing perfect or deep sleep. Perfect or deep sleep means the subtle body, as well as the physical, must cease working. If it were only the physical body that stopped its work, it would not be deep sleep, in so much as the subtle body and all its faculties are in a state of activity; and there is the same consciousness but it has not physical faculties, which are asleep, to manifest through.
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