Guest (3): (French)
Yogeśvara: He says, in history there was the mystery of the sphinxes of Egypt, do these sphinxes carry any significance?
Prabhupāda: Hum?
Yogeśvara: Is the pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt civilization are any mystic significance?
Pṛthu Putra: It's a great relevance for the Egyptian civilization.
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is just like samādhi. Samādhi, when you become samādhi, then if you're, I mean to say, put within the earth, you do not die.
Pṛthu Putra: (French)
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Even if you are put in the earth you do not die.
Pṛthu Putra: (French)
Prabhupāda: This is called kumbhaka-yoga.
Guest (3): Kunbha?
Prabhupāda: Kumbhaka. So this is practiced by the frogs also. So if you get success, you get success like the frog.
Lady (2): (French)
Yogeśvara: Shall I tell them that story about the frog?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Yogeśvara: (French)
Prabhupāda: That means the frog was buried at least for 10,000 years.
Yogeśvara: (French)
Prabhupāda: Read the last paragraph of the yoga system: yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntarātmanā.
Pṛthu Putra:
- yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
- mad-gatenāntarātmanā
- śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
- sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
- (BG 6.47)
(French translation) "And of all yogis, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all." (break) (end)