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too, had undertaken research on this topic but their discoveries were forgotten during the middle ages. Through a comparative study of the conclusions arrived at by the modern and ancient researchers and through our own research we have tried to locate various centres. To some extent our effort has been successful and we have been able to identify them. This discovery has increased the utility of meditation on the psychic centres.
According to the psychologists, emotion is man's fundamental disposition. There are two kinds of emotion-internal (urge or impulse ) and external. The control of external emotion is not good from health point of view. But if the urges and impulses are not controlled, the situation becomes positively harmful. Those who have meditated long on the Centre of Tranquillity, have been found to succeed in controlling their urges.
Q. According to a belief. there is a third eye in our body. Is it really so? If yes, does one of the psychic centres constitute this eye or does it have an independent existence? Where is it located?
Ans. Just below the Centre of Tranquillity is another important centre called Jyoti Kendra, the Centre of Enlightenment. Here is located the pineal gland. The physiologists have not been able to gather much information about it. Recently, some discoveries have been made about it on the basis of which its importance is being assessed. As a matter of fact this Jyoti Kendra, the Centre of Enlightenment, is called the third eye.
Some people recognise, Darshan-Kendra (The Centre of Intuition) or Agya-Chakra (The Centre of Command) to be the third eye. From another point of view,
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