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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Actually, the yoga system is so perfect that they get eight kinds of perfection before achieving the real perfection. And what is that perfection, the eight kinds of . . .? Aṇimā, laghimā-siddhi, prāpti, īśitā, vaśitā, like that. Aṇimā-siddhi means when a yogī is, is not exactly perfect, when he's on the way of perfection, he gets this opportunity. He becomes . . . he can become the smallest. If you pack a yogī in a room and lock him, he'll come out. He'll come out.
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[[Vanisource:660729 - Lecture BG 04.13-14 - New York|660729 - Lecture BG 04.13-14 - New York]]
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Sometimes Kṛṣṇa was being defeated. So He has to carry other boy on His shoulder. These things were being done. Because we have no idea of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, therefore we take it as trifling. But Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so sublime that all perfection of our desires are there. Whatever we are desiring, whatever desires we have got constitutionally, all those desires will be perfectly fulfilled when we are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You see? So Kṛṣṇa, here He says that na me karma-phale spṛhā. Kṛṣṇa did not require any friend to play with Him.

Neither Kṛṣṇa had any desire of having a single wife. We require wife. Why do we take the responsible wife? Because we have got some desire to fulfill. That's all. But He is complete in Himself, pūrṇa. A poor man can desire that, "Oh, if I would have bank balance, say, one thousand dollars in the bank, I would have been happy." But a rich man who has got millions of dollars in the bank, does he desire for one hundred dollars in the bank? He has no such desire.

Similarly, if Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, why He should have desire for His? He is full. Rather, He fulfills others' desires. That is the thing. "Man proposes; God disposes." Why God should have desire? Otherwise He's imperfect. So Kṛṣṇa has . . . here He says, na me karma-phale spṛhā: "Oh, I have no desire to fulfill." Because He is full. Whatever He wants . . . Parāsya śakti . . . In the Vedic literature, you'll find, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate, svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8). The Supreme Brahman, He has got different, diverse energies. As soon as He desires, everything is done immediately.

If I have to manufacture this stand, oh, I'll have to arrange for so many things. I'll have to go to the brass smith and ask him and give him some money and so many things. But the parāsya śaktir . . . if I have got . . . even a, even a yogī, even a yogī, there is a prāpti-siddhi. You have heard the name of yoga. The yoga system is not so plaything as we have got so many branches in America. They are playthings.

Actually, the yoga system is so perfect that they get eight kinds of perfection before achieving the real perfection. And what is that perfection, the eight kinds of . . .? Aṇimā, laghimā-siddhi, prāpti, īśitā, vaśitā, like that. Aṇimā-siddhi means when a yogī is, is not exactly perfect, when he's on the way of perfection, he gets this opportunity. He becomes . . . he can become the smallest. If you pack a yogī in a room and lock him, he'll come out. He'll come out.

In Benares, India, there was a trailiṅga svāmī, yogī. He was sitting on the street naked. So government took objection, "Oh, you are sitting . . . it is obscene. You cannot." "Oh, I'll sit." Then he was put into the custody. So he came out. He was locked. That is not a very old story, say, about hundred years before, that trailiṅga svāmī. So thrice, four times he was put into the custody, and he came out. So this is the first siddhi, first perfection.

Similarly, a yogī also, if he wants . . . perhaps I cited this story. In my childhood I had my teacher and he had his spiritual master, a great yogī. So my teacher used to narrate the story of his spiritual master, that one day he went to the spiritual master, and the spiritual master asked him, "Well, what do you want to eat?" And they replied that, "I want fresh pomegranates from Afghanistan." "All right, sit." So in the room they saw the . . . a branch of pomegranates just with juices just like somebody has snatched the branch from the tree, and it was there. Yogī they can perform such wonderful things. If I want this thing, I have to endeavor for it, but a yogī can at once make it. These are some of the preliminary perfections of yogī.
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