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Patanjali's Eight Stages of Yoga and Meditation Art & Science of Meditation
Patanjali says, "By making Sanyam - combination of concentration, meditation and samadhi - on a single moment and on the sequenece of moments, a yogi gets vivek, exalted knowledge, so that he can comprehend all objects in the universe simultaneously, irrespective of their location and sequence of change." In other words, the Mind of God! Theory of relativity
An expert on relativity John A Wheeler says Einstein's theory of gravitation can be simply stated as "Events and the interval between events build space-time." The geometric nature of space-time gives rise to gravity, tells the mass how to move, and is the basis of the universe and the movement of all heavenly bodies.
Similarly, there are other sutras that bear close resemblance to modern scientific theories. For example, in the first section, Patanjali desribes God as a special entity beyond time and space, identified by the original word or sound. According to existing scientific theories about the origin of the univerese, the first thing that came out was sound - even before light and matter. Later commentaries on the Yoga Sutras talk about this sound as Aum, but Patanjali never mentioned Aum - he just mentioned that it is the original word or sound.
Again in Vibhuti Pada, he says that by doing Sanyam on the hollow of throat, one overcomes hunger and thirst.
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