Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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this, the management responded with the formal courtesy of thanking him for his concern. It is not known whether any precautions were taken or not, but the disaster did strike as predicted.
In another instance of such premonition regarding an imminent catastrophe, a woman reports her experience in these words:
'I was around seventeen years of age at the time of this incident. My elder sister who was married to a gifted musician, led a happy marital life. One night, I dreemt that her husband (my, brother-in-law) lay wounded with bullet injuries from a rifle fired by a boy and succumbed to death due to heavy blood loss before any medical aid could be rushed to him. The next scene of my dream sequence was, that I was jolted upright from my sleep by shrill cries of my mother and as I ran downstairs, I met her at the door with a telegram in her hand that had brought the sad message of the fateful death of my brother-in-law. When I woke up from sleep, I was very upset by this horrifying dream and wrote to my sister about it. She received my letter on Saturday and laughed it off. However, on Monday, my brother-in-law did suffer the same fate as witnessed by me in the dream earlier and died of bullet injuries: the telegraphic message of his death also arrived in the same manner as visualised by me in the dream".
'Divine Vision' through Yogic Practice :
Common men may, once in a while experience such a flash of foreknowledge but they do not have any control over its occurrence nor can they actuate it at will. Vision of events taking place beyond one's range of sight or foreknowledge of future events is not available to them at will. The adept practitioners of yoga at an advanced stage can, however, develop such extra-sensory perceptive (ESP) capabilities and put them to use at will. Just as we can throw the light beam from a battery-torch at any spot that we choose, the yogi with such attainment can focus his ESP vision at will