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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING positive condition; and other acts which are negative, which require a great length of time for their performance, which are quiet in their nature, which require contemplation, such acts should be performed when we are in a negative condition. All acts which last for a long time should be performed while in this state. It is also necessary to know which of the ethers is predominant in us, for some of them may be good for a certain act, and others may be bad. Our Jain rules say that the fourth and fifth ethers are good and the first, second and third are not good, and as I told you some time ago, the ethers can be known by either the form of their vibrations or by the color, or by the distance to which they go from the body. Besides these ordinary acts-these daily acts which we perform, we have to take into consideration the spiritual acts, and these may be divided into two classes; one is composed of those acts in which we must study deeply on some philosophical subject, and the other simple contemplation. We should say this in regard to. spiritual acts; that when we wish to study a science which is active in its nature and requires only a short time for study, the study should begin when the breath shows that we are positive; and anything that requires a long time for its study, should be studied when the breath is negative, and deep spiritual contemplation should be pursued, when the system is neither positive nor negative, but in the middle course. There are many other acts for which rules are presented ; but I do not think, you will be interested in knowing the
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