What Modern Study Confirms
From The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="research">Contemporary neuroscience finds what the ṛṣis mapped: sustained meditation (dhyāna) strengthens attention- and self-regulation networks, calms the stress response, and increases wellbeing (studies of mindfulness and long-term meditators). Regulated breathing (prāṇāyāma) raises vagal tone and lowers arousal; loving- kindness practice (echoing 1.33) measurably increases positive emotion. Yoga's inner science and modern science describe one reality — the ṛṣis simply reached it first, from within.</pre>