Book Title: Yoga Philosophy
Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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________________ OCCOLT POWERS 89 ordinary circumstances, does many acts which no one would expect of him, but that is the result only of his anger which has produced a change in his mentality. We know that mentality produces many wonderful results. If an ordinary person is insulted by the words of another, why, then, that person would act in a totally different way towards the person who insulted him. This is also the result of mentality. Further on on the same plane, people have beautiful thoughts on different subjects under some circumstances. A person may be thinking on a subject and not have any idea at all on that subject; while under other circumstances, physical as well as mental, he would have the most pleasant and delightful thoughts on that subject. This is also wonderful, but because these things are of daily occurrence, we do not call them miraculous. They are the result of certain laws and nothing else. On the moral plane the real occult powers are developed, and it is only on account of not including this plane that the modern scientists have not been able to solve the problem of these wonderful things. The scientists have worked on one plane or rather or two planes, the physical and the mental, and they think that morality in a person, the life of the individual, has nothing to do with the occurence or non-occurrence of a phenomenon. They think that all the forces must come out of the physical nature. I have read the work of an American gentleman who is a well-known scientist, and he says that if a physical Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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