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The Eleventh Lesson: Hindu Wonder-Working.1337
The Eleventh Lesson: Hindu Wonder-Working.
The majority of Western readers are more or less familiar with the
accounts of the Wonder-Working feats of the Hindu fakirs, or so-called
“yogis,” whose feats have been witnessed by Western travelers in India,
who have related wonderful accounts of what they have witnessed upon
their return home. Of course, many of these accounts are exaggerated
and distorted, but there is a basis of agreement upon the fundamental
facts which should satisfy the fair-minded Western student that there are
“many things in heaven and earth not dreamed of in our philosophy”—that
is, in the philosophies of the West. All educated Hindus, however, know
that while these feats are performed, that they are not supernatural in any
sense of the word, but are in strict accordance with natural laws, although
some of these laws may not be known to the general public, and some
of the applications of ordinary natural forces are strange to the Western
world. Moreover, the educated Hindu knows that these exhibitions and
manifestations of strange forces are not necessarily proofs of a high degree
of spiritual attainment on the part of the performer, for these men are often
quite low in the ranks of spiritual attainment—but are rather the result of
the control of certain of nature’s forces by means of the development of
certain psychological powers, chiefly by the control and application of the