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The Sun, Yoga, and Science

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    The Sun, Yoga, and Science


    By Linda Johnsen
    Courtesy & copyright Yoga International

    It is amazing how much Western science has taught us. Today, for example, kids in grammar school learn that the sun is 93 million miles from the earth and that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per hours. Yoga may teach us about our Higher Self, but it can't supply this kind of information about physics or astronomy.
    Or can it?

    Professor Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University recently called my attention to a remarkable statement by Sayana, a fourteenth century Indian scholar. In his commentary on a hymn in the Rig Veda, the oldest and perhaps most mystical text ever composed in India, Sayana has this to say: "With deep respect, I bow to the sun, who travels 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha."

    A yojana is about nine American miles; a nimesha is 16/75 of a second.
    Mathematically challenged readers, get out your calculators!

    2,202 yojanas x 9 miles x 75 - 8 nimeshas = 185,794 m.p.s.

    Basically, Sayana is saying that sunlight travels at 186,000 miles per second! How could a Vedic scholar who died in 1387 A.D. have known the correct figure for the speed of light? If this was just a wild guess it's the most amazing coincidence in the history of science!
    THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

  • #2
    Re: The Sun, Yoga, and Science

    Well lots of things are coincidences these days, also much was lost through disaster or war. We lost Archimedes for example when some rogue Roman soldiers killed him off. We are a long way from knowing what ancient scientists knew back then and in medieval times. But that is a pretty interesting story indeed.

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    • #3
      Re: The Sun, Yoga, and Science

      ...And it's not a coincidence! There are so many examples I can bring up. Let's not be so doubtful. (Not that I'm saying you are)
      THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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      • #4
        Re: The Sun, Yoga, and Science

        Can you provide more details on the classical measurement of a nimesha? I find it highly "convenient" for it to be reported as being 16/75 of a second, such an odd fraction.

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        • #5
          Re: The Sun, Yoga, and Science

          I don't know much related to Nimesha's bro. Try a search.

          But things like this have happened and not just happened.
          THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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