Yoga Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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own mind, due to his own character, still we know that in the case of a person not of a strong nature, as many subjects are not, the very fact of consenting to obey the will of the hypnotist shows that he wishes to follow out the suggestion, and when it is very powerful that will be followed out even to the sacrificing of self. As to magnetism in general I will say a few words. The nature of human magnetism is different from that of the magnetism emanating from physical objects, as the latter has but one property. If water is charged with that property, it will produce but one kind of result, but human magnetism may produce any result, because it always acts according to the desire of the person who possesses it. Therefore by human magnetism, water may be charged with any quality, and this must therefore be a very important factor in life. By many of our acts and thoughts we are either storing or wasting it. How do we waste it? And how store it ? That is a practical question. We waste it in physical, mental and moral acts, by doing those physical acts which stimulate the body, which take away our thoughts to matters which are of no use to us or any other person. In that way we waste our energies, or our magnetism, by thinking on dress or of matters of no importance to us or to other human beings. We waste it, too, by entertaining desires for doing good, by sending our best wishes to others, and in this way we spend it for good. We can restore it by moral acts, and desires of doing good produce in the mind a change or a force, and that force eliminates the
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