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Art & Science of Meditation Patanjali's Eight Stages of Yoga and Meditation The Science of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras Anil K Rajvanshi (The speaking Tree, The Times of India)
"The 2,500-year-old Patanjali Yoga Sutras is the earliest treatise on yoga. Sage Patanjali enunciates in a scientific manner how to control thought - a process which makes the mind powerful enough to focus on any subject; hence the result is complete knowledge.
The book, divided into four sections, consists of 195 sutras. The first two sections give instructions on how to do yoga for control of thought waves; the third section is on physical powers that a yogi obtains by practising yoga and the last section is on how to get librated from the cycle of birth and death." Laws of the universe
Thus in Vibhuti Pada of Yoga Sutras, Patanjali talks about how by concentrating on various subjects like akaash (space) or various parts of the body, a yogi understands the laws of the universe and human body and gains mastery over natural forces so that he attains super powers. He could walk on water, fly in space or enter another body at will, for instance.
However, at the end of Vibhuti Pada that has 56 sutras, Patanjali discusses the concept of space and time in two sutras with uncanny resemblance to what Einstein talked about almost 2,500 years later.
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