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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
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changed our condition. So far as our ordinary duties are concerned, we may become successful through these rules. We know that magnetism passes through the body, and that it must be either positive or negative. Suppose that two persons meet to transact some bussiness and one is positive and the other negative; the bussiness will go or smoothly and there will be no trouble; but if both are positive or both negative there will be discomfort, and the bussiness will not be successful. Therefore so far as our ordinary acts are concerned, we ought to pursue these rules. If a person wishes to perform an act requiring bodily strength, that is a positive act and it is necessary that it should be performed when we ourselves are in a positive condition; and other acts which are negative, which require a great leagth of time for their performance, which are quiet in their nature, which require contemplation, snch acts should be performed when we are in a negative condition. All acts which last for a long time should be performed while in this state. It is also necessary to know which of the ethers is predominant in us, for some of thein may be good for a certaiu act, and others may be bad. Our Jain rules say that the fourth and fifth ethers are good and the first, second and third are not good, and as I told you some time ago, the ethers can be known by either the form of their vibrations or by the color, or by the distance to which they go from the body. Besides
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