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 yogi 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 yogi in a room and lock him, he'll come out. He'll come out.
Anima-siddhi means: Difference between revisions
SriSundari (talk | contribs) m (SriSundari moved page Anima-siddhi means... to Anima-siddhi means) |
ArnabSinha (talk | contribs) m (1 revision) |
(No difference)
|
Latest revision as of 00:23, 25 October 2014
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Aṇimā-siddhi means when a yogi is, is not exactly perfect, when he's on the way of perfection, he gets this opportunity. He becomes... He can become the smallest.
Lecture on BG 4.13-14 -- New York, August 1, 1966: Nectar of Devotion Lectures
Aṇimā siddhi means to enter into the stone.
The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 9, 1972: Yoga siddhis, they are simply material arts. Just like one example is given, that aṇimā siddhi, aṇimā siddhi means to enter into the stone. So we see in the Western countries they are boring big, big hills and entering in the stone. So that aṇimā siddhi is being possible, is made possible by modern scientific research. So all the siddhis, aṣṭa siddhi, aṇimā, laghimā, prāpti, prākāmya, īśitā, vaśitā, these all siddhis are material. They are not spiritual. But people do not know what is spiritual perfection. They become amazed by seeing some magic by these yogic arts. They're simply material arts.