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be no armies. The human mind will be made so powerful that it would cripple and demoralize the enemy situated at a distance of thousands of miles away. Experiments are being done to develop such powers in the mind of man. Both success and failure in these experiments are fraught with grave dangers. The practitioner of sādhanā has also to develop his mental powers so that the forces of his enemies may be rendered helpless. His enemies are delusion and ignorance. He will have to employ perception, feeling, word-perception and mental waves and will have to exert himself on all these. And above all, he will have to be self-watchful. The most important thing is the method of sādhana. A correct undersianding of the methodology of sādhana will remove all kinds of doubts and misgivings.
There are several instruments for perce.ving, graphing and measuring breath. But one may wonder how far these instruments can enable us to perceive the soul? How can the soul be attained by means of perceiving breath ? How can we reclaim the soul by perceiving the dirty body? The practitioner is likely to become confused and ambivalent.
Once a traveller was travelling in a dark night. Somebody had given him a lantern to find his way. The traveller saw that the light of the lantern could illumine a distance of four or five feet only. The distance he had to cover was miles and miles long. He began to wonder how the light of the lantern will be able to guide him through all this distance. The practitioner who has understood the technique of prekṣā meditation is like the traveller mentioned above. If he has understood the technique of prekşā meditation, even a small light can take hini to his desired end. If he did not move, the light will illumine only a short area. But if he started walking, the light will travel along with him right up to the end of the journey. A mere theoretical knowledge of the technique will not do. The traveller will have to exert himself in the exercises in meditation.
There is another difficulty. One may ask as to what will the consequence of body-perception be. We breathe all the twentyfour hours. What is the sense in perceiving the breathing process ? Why should we not try to perceive something new? Why should we not perceive multi-storeyed buildings
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