Discovery of the means of knowledge dissemination is one of the greatest achievements of the present century. I am sure there would have been some method of 'intellect diffusion' in the past whatever we may call it whether telepathy in the modern linguistic expression or the Sanjays' power in the Mahabharata to know what is going on in the battlefield...or the powers enjoyed by the Peramhans Yogananda and his Guru Shri Lahari Mahashaya or his guru Babaji to be at the different places simultaniously. Powers of the Sanjaya(Dhratrashtra' companion) are well known to everybody. In his autobiography"An Autobiography of a Yogi" Swami Paramhansa Yogananda has written about the yogic powers of being at the different places at the same time.

Once a photographer wanted to take a picture of the Lahiri Mahashaya and he clicked also but the result was futile. there was no picture in the camera! and this is not at all the matter of surprise...it was simply the mismatch of the means and modes of the systems of knowledge comprehension. Our moderm modes of colour capturing failed. When later Lahiri Mahashaya himself allowed his body spectrum to be imprinted on the photo film there was certainly a photo of the great saint in the same camera. the point to understand here is that we can not say that we are the best. Some post modernist type thinking is still needed to fathom the shallow depth of so called modern day scientific achievements.

Though today such highly refined and cosmic modes of knowledge contemplation and comprehension are no more available to the human civilization. We can learn a lot from the knowledge of our past.