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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
It can send and receive messages to and from other minds also. It can act on plants. Both conscious and unconscious beings can be affected by the mind. The mind can move objects and transplant and transport them. A trained and energised mind can do all these things easily.
How to train the mind ? How to energise it? Let us consider these questions. The only way to energise the mind is to change the orientation of our life. It is not possible to change the course of life without changing the breath process. Breath or prāna is the most powerful instrument of our powers. Life depends on breath. We live because we breath. Let us, therefore, keep the lamp of life burning. There arc lights which keep burning for centuries and centuries together. Ordinarily lamps keep burning for a limited time only. Oil lamps burn for a few hours. But men have burnt lights which will never be extinguished.
An Italian peasant was once working on his field with a spade. All of a sudden it stuck on a particular spot. When the soil of the spot was removed, it was found that there was a door beneath the soil. The peasant broke the door open. When he tried to enter into the door, he found that a light was burning within. He suspected that there might be a ghost there. But when he went near the light he saw that there was no lamp but only a flame. It was not a man made flame but an eternal flame because it was not produced by a lamp.
There is an eternal flame burning within us also. There are innumerable lights burning within all the living beings also. They will never be extinguished. Among the fuels which keep these lights burning the first is breath. The lights are the centres of energy. Those who have not practised breath perception will never be able to reach the centres of energy. So far as memory and thought processes continue, these lights can never be perceived. It can be said with con fidence that the Tirthankaras and men possessed of knowledge and those accomplished in sādhanā had burnt such lights with the fuel of breath only. Such an achievement is possible even today. Breath control and the turn we give to the breathing process are the preconditions of success in sādhanā.
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