Science of inner being

istry. Christians discovered many laws of physics, like the law of gravity and the law of relativity. But that does not make physics “Christian”. You won’t call these laws Christian because they were discovered by those who were born in the dominantly Christian countries. Physics remains just a science — secular and significant.

Similarly, yoga is also a science; it is just an accident that Hindus discovered it. It is a pure science of the inner being.

Yoga is an energetic phenomenon. It is not just about the fitness of the body. It is about fitness of the whole being — body, mind and spirit. It is wholesome. That’s why the White House is reportedly stretching every muscle and sinew to get Americans, including children, to focus on the decline in the nation’s overall well-being.

Osho reminds us about Patanjali, the ancient scientist seer of yoga. He is an enlightened person like Lord Buddha or Lord Krishna, but he has a scientific temperament. Patanjali is like Einstein in the world of Buddhas. He is a phenomenon. He could have been a Nobel Prize winner like Einstein or Bohr or Max Planck. Patanjali was a scientist and thought in terms of laws. And he deduced absolute laws of human being — the ultimate working structure of the human mind and reality — and together we refer to them as yoga. Swami Chaitanya Keerti is editor of

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