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HYPNOTISM
if we stop all useless acts, we stop the wasting away of the magnetic fluid. The austerities of the Hindus are not of the kind called mortification of the flesh.
That is not the austerity of the Hindus; that is the practice of cersain persons called fakirs who are no more religious representatives than the actors in a circus represent Christianity. However, even the raising of the band for a long time would give them a certain will power, but they forget the end of evolving that will force. They do not know for what purpose they are doing this act. The force, however, evolved in this way may go with them to the next life, but because it Was evolved without any desire for doing good, it will be used in a different way in another life from that which was evolved for another purpose. The motive of an act has something to do with the result. The nature of tbe result will depend on the motive with which the act was performed. That is why we find persons who are rich and have no desire of doing good, and some who have a great desire to do good. It is the same way with those who are poor. The nature and the same object of the act are both to be taken into consideration In fact the object and the nature of the act may be put in different positions and may produce a certain number of permutuations, and in the same way there will be so many kinds of people that while riches may be the result of good Karma, if the act was done without any desire of doing good, the result will be different; a person without riches but with a good heart must have had a great desire for being charitable or
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