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

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________________ EXTERNAL, INFLCANCE ON. THIRDMAN, BEING 269 mental, intellectual and spiritual, states. As the planets. seem to return to stated points and re-enact their myst. tic conjunctions, in the: shining pathway, of the Zodiac), so there seem to be recurrences of certain types of character, and duplicates of certain facial lineaments. Causes of all occurrences in the organic and inorgan nic life are present in the material and the soul-world.. The prophets and seers have the power to actually see these causes and know their effects. The Chaldean soothsayers perceived the destinies of nations in the Smoking ashes of the burnt offering; the Roman augurs interpreted the issues of life and death from the flight of birds; Persian Magi read the words of fate inscribed on the starry pages of the skies; Hebrew Priests discovered mystic meanings in the glittering lustre of Urim and Thummin; they were all natural philosophers and had studied the occult side of nature with as much understanding and perhaps more devotion than the ninteenth century scientists accord to th: mastery of the known and the visible. For thousands, perhaps for tens of thousands of years, it was the office of the best and wisest men of every succeeding generation, to devote a lifetime to the study of nature and that in her profoundest depths ani through all the nazes ani windings of her superIatural relations with th: visible and invisible spheres of being around hor. Ever let it be remembered too, that the ancient philosopher brought to this sublime Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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