History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.225

v7.c92.225

¹⁸⁰⁹ The Yogasūtra III 36 and bhāṣya thereon state that some of the powers developed are that the yoga expert hears divine music and receives the impression of fragrant scents In 'Bengal Lancer' F Yeats-Brown (London, 1930) narrates (pp. 246-247) how he had the experience that the room in which he and his American friends were sitting was filled by a yogic teacher who wore nothing but his *dhoti* with the perfume of attar of roses, then with the scent of violets, musk, sandalwood, with nothing else with him except cotton wool on which he focussed a magnifying glass The Śv. Up. II. 13 details the first signs of the effectiveness of yoga practices 'लघुत्वमारोग्यमलोलुपत्वं वर्णप्रसाद. स्वरसौष्ठवं च। गन्ध. शुभो मूत्रपुरीषमल्पं योगप्रवृत्तिं प्रथमां वदन्ति॥'.