________________
THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
105
which color is predominant in us. There may of course be two or three predominant over the others. While there are these different modes of discovering the predominant ethers, there are people, who have reached an advanced stage, who can see the colors of the predominant ethers without passing through all these preparations, and can therefore divine the characters of others. These ethers have physical properties and mental properties. While they produce cohesion or contraction, etc., they have a corresponding influence on the mental plane. That which produces cohesion on the physical plane, produces stability on the mental plane; that which produces expansion on the physical plane, produces fervor and ardor on the mental plane, and so with the other ethers. This theory of etners corresponds to the theory of science and corresponds with the science of the ancient nations. The Hindus believe in breathing in and breathing out of Brahma, and the Brahmins say that the rising and falling of the soul life is nothing less than the rising and falling of Brahma. We differ from them, and say that breathing in and breathing out imply the state of vibrations only, which implies something that has vibrations, and vibrations can only be produced in material substance; therefore this breathing in and out has only to do with matter and the material universe, and so far as this is concerned, this theory is all right; but the soul can produce vibrations but itself does not vibrate; so that when we see physical objects and see vibrations it is not the conscious
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
