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is benefited by the radiation emanating from the guru's aura. The moment a disciple enters the field of the guru's aura, he experiences extraordinary peace. Through the boundless love of the guru, he comes to see a new direction in life and possibilities of transformation grow stronger. Many new experiments are being undertaken in the western world in the direction of character-transformation. One such experiment has been conducted in Germany. In order to free the young from addiction to smoking, they are being given training in yoga. Again in order to wean them from addiction to intoxicants, people in France are encouraged to undertake long seajourneys. In one such experiment, 20 persons were sent on a long sea-voyage. It has been reported that 13 of them were reformed. The police chief of Cleveland (America) has discovered a new way of reforming the policemen under his charge. These policemen are free to take their wives along with them on their supervisory rounds. It has been found that these people dare not take intoxicating drugs in the presence of their wives.
The experiments mentioned above are no figments of imagination. Both on theoretical and practical grounds, these have been found to be sound. According to the Jain philosophy, remarkable changes take place in both conscious and unconscious objects due to transposition of matter, space, time and feeling. A conscious object when transposed to another area or epoch may become unconscious. There could not be a greater transformation than this. In the above examples, the experiment in Germany may be taken as an instance of change of material circumstance, that in France of transference to a newer area, that in America, of transmutation of feeling.
Even more effective than these is the experiment of living in the vicinity of the guru. The transformation of personality wrought by the effect of the guru's aura on
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