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114 THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING in India do not prescribe these rules, moral and physical, to those who do not know how to concentrate, who simply observe one rule, that of breathing, without purifying the nerve and blood centers, etc. These things become dangerous to such persons, and they attract disease which has never been cured. For such people the Latin maxim ought to be applied which said, “Investigate, but do not experiment. When this kind of breathing is practised for a long time we see the results in the body, and in the first stages perspiration is the result; later on the digestion becomes stronger and later on we feel that certain forces are evolved coming from the navel and proceeding upward to the brain and reaching the top part of the brain where a certain sound is heard and a power is evolved which enables the person to see many things which cannot be seen by ordinary vision. This power cannot be obtained in any cheap way; it is not like a microscope or a telescope ; this power depends on our own life, on our own conduct. The very thoughts which we harbor will have something to do with the evolution of these powers. What are thoughts but vibrations ? They must be vibrations to give rise to vibrations. We say that vibrations and thought, however, are concurrent and not identical. Even when the vibrations do not come out from us they produce a peculiar change in the functions of the different organs by the motion of the different subtle ethers of the body, and a corresponding change is made in the mental condition, in the whole condition
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