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THE WAY TO PEACE: PURIFICATION OF
ENVIRONMENT
Pure environment fills a man with bliss; Then shine upon him for ever the alpha
rays undimmed! Unclean environment makes for rising
melancholy; There doubtless beat mostly the beta
vibrations! The task of conveying the atom up to the soul,
The cycle of leshya tirelessly performs! Q. From the purity of the aura or the cycle of feeling, -- mental peace ensues. Who experiences this bliss? Does only the man to whom peace has come, experience it, or is it possible for another man also to have some understanding of it? Is there a parameter to measure mental peace or mental agitation?
Ans. There exist many old ways of measuring the tran- quillity of the mind or its agitation. A man's facial
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