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Art & Science of Meditation Patanjali's Eight Stages of Yoga and Meditation Recently scientists have discovered that by stimulation of the vagus nerve hunger pangs can be suppressed. Vagus nerve is concentrated near the oesophagus tube - close to the hollow of the throat. Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) approved a device, which can electrically stimulate the vagus nerve so that the brain gets the signal that the stomach is full. Knowledge space
The comparison of Patnajali sutras with modern science is neither to belittle the latter nor to glorify our ancient traditions (both are improtant in their own ways), but to show that all great thoughts originate from the same Knowledge Space irespective of person and time of their discovery."
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