Book Title: Twelve Facets of Reality Author(s): Chitrabhanu Publisher: New York Dodd Made & CompanyPage 85
________________ 3 FACET SIX The Flame in the Candle İNYONE who is in a hypnotic trance or under a spell is not going to act according to his own will. Why not? Because his will has been subdued. It has been subjected to someone else's command, to the suggestion of the hypnotist. So the person performs an action, but does not know why he is doing it. When you observe him, you cannot tell whether his action comes from his own free will or from some suggestion. This same thing happens in our own lives. The way we move, dress, eat, communicate, think, and act is another kind of spell. We go through various motions. We engage in a number of activities. But do we know whether our action comes from self-awareness or from someone else's suggestion? Can we detect whether we are acting according to a subtle “brainwash" created by society, politics, religion, business, the world of “isms”? Have we assimilated and internalized the influences of the outside world to such an extent that our thoughts, desires, likes and dislikes, actions and reactions are under their spell? Or are our lives flowing from our own will, our own self-awareness? We may not be able to differentiate between the outer influence and our own desire. We may not be able to isolate the factors which are coloring our ways of think 63Page Navigation
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