33. Responsive Action Evoked by Means of Facial Expression

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

33. RESPONSIVE ACTION EVOKED BY MEANS OF FACIAL EXPRESSION

            59. Facial peculiarities and expression evoke responses somewhat similar to those evoked by feelings communicated by means of sound. There are abundant illustrations in support of this observation. The affectionate responses of lovers towards each other and the hilarity evoked by the features of cosmic actors are instances which will serve our purpose. Thoughts, viz, recollections of such expressions also produce feelings of the same description. When such thoughts are regularly generated for the purpose of engendering spiritual feelings, the process is technically known as spiritual contemplation. It need hardly be remarked that a pure spiritual form alone would produce spiritual feelings, and we now proceed to find out such a form. A description of spiritual adepts of various classes and of their characteristics would be helpful in the research we have now in mind. We accordingly describe them below.