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OCCULT POWERS
Hindus have not advanced in manufactures of guns and cannons; they do not believe in destroying other beings by means of man-killing machines ; they have submitted to foreign rule because they have not learned the art of killing men. Their life is in submitting to the fierce nature of other people, and evolving the higher nature of the soul, and sending out vibrations. which instead of exciting the fierce nature of other beings would pacify them. What is the resuit of truthfulness? A person is truthful and speaks nothing but the truth, not only in words but in acts also. Then all his acts become fruitful ; there would be no obstacle in the way of his expressing his desires, for he will not have any unjust desire at all. We find these facts mentioned in the religious history of many nations, that when certain persons said, " Let this be," it always happened, because truthfulness means the establishing of a harmonious relation with regard to their own nature and with regard to external nature. Untruthfulness means that a person's belief and acts are not in accordance with the actual state of affairs, and there is continual conflict going on between that person's act and word, and the actual state of nature, there is constant war between himself and the rest of the world. How can the desires of such a person be expressed without some injury to himself or to other beings ? And even when he does by acting in this way accomplish his desires, it takes a great time, it requires a great deal of labour and waste of energy to do so. But a person who is truthful
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