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cannot meet together with good result, but if one is positive and the other negative they will mix; that is why the mesmerists say that the patient should be in a passive condition, that the operator may be able to exercise his will power strongly; the patient should become passive so that the two elements may mix. It is this magnetic fluid that in some persons is of one kind and in other persons of another kind, in some giving pleasure and in others pain. The scientists give us this explanation, that this fluid is to be found in a greater or less degree in all persons, but in actual experience we know that in some it is of a pleasant nature and in others unpleasant. We Hindus can give the reason for this, because the scientists' observation proceeds from limited standpoints; they think that there is only one physical life and do not know anything about the condition of the being after what they call death; therefore they cannot find out anything about the cause of this magnetic fluid. Certainly, then, we must consider the cause of any phenomenon ; there cannot be any result manifested in the physical, mental, moral or spiritual universe without a cause. Even a leaf does not fall from a tree unless there is force sufficient to take it down from the tree; if that is true on in the material world certainly it must be true in the human world; and we express the nature, good or bad, of this fluid, by the theory of ethical causation, which is the same as the law of cause and effect. The same theory is called in our language the law of Karma. A person generates many forces in one life,
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