Yoga Sutra III- 27 - BHUVANA JNANAM SURYE SAMYAMAT - By samyama on the sun, knowledge of the entire solar system is obtained.]Yoga Sutra III- 28 - CANDRE TARA VYUHA JNANAM - By samyama on the moon comes knowledge of the stars' arrangement.
Yoga Sutra III- 29 - DHRUVE TADGATI JNANAM - By samyama on the pole star comes knowledge of the stars' movements.
Swami Satchidananda translated the above sutras without commentary.
For the above sutras there is only a commentary on Yoga Sutra III- 29 from "How to Know God - The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" translated and commented on by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. - "It has already been remarked that there is a strong resemblance between the cosmology of Patanjali and the theories of modern atomic physics. Yet the ancient Hindus had, as far as we know, practically no scientific apparatus of any accuracy. This fact alone would seem to offer some proof of the validity of the psychic powers. For how else could these sages have formed such a correct and comprehensive picture of the nature of the universe? Their knowledge cannot have been based, as ours is, simply upon sense-perception assisted by instruments."
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