History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.312

v7.c94.312

²³⁸⁹ जन्मौषधिमन्त्रतपःसमाधिजाः सिद्धय । यो. सू IV 1 Ernest Wood on 'Yoga' (1959, in Penguin Books) observes on p. 104 about levitation (*laghimā*) 'I remember one occasion when an old yogin was levitated in a recumbent position about six feet above ground in an open field for about *(Continued from last page)* half an hour, while the visitors were permitted to pass sticks to and fro between'. He further refers to levitation which a princess of Sikkim asserted she saw as a girl. A. Koestler in 'The Lotus and the Robot' (London, 1960, on p. 114) doubts the quality of the evidence of E Wood on the ground that no exact date or place is mentioned and asserts that no experiment on levitation with definite date and place has been published. But Dr Alexander Cannon in 'The invisible influence' (1935) pp 39-41 narrated a personal experience of levitation (laghimā). It is not clear whether A. Koestler was aware of this statement.