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Siddhi means to understand the spiritual identification and work for it. That is called siddhi. So the attempt for such thing is called mukti: to get rid of the material entanglement. So bhukti-mukti-siddhi. There are three stages. So siddhi means when one understands his spiritual identity and tries to make his life perfect on that platform, that is called siddhi. Otherwise, bhukti-mukti.
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[[Vanisource:740218 - Lecture BG 07.03 - Bombay|740218 - Lecture BG 07.03 - Bombay]]
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''Bhukti-mukti-siddhi.'' There are three kinds of activities going on in the human society. Some people are ''karmīs''. They enjoy life, or they want to enjoy life by working hard. Enjoyment means ''āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam.'' To eat very nicely and to sleep very nicely, to enjoy sex life very nicely and to make defense force, this is called enjoyment, material enjoyment. If I am secure by defense force and if I have got good bank balance, if I have got a very nice, beautiful wife and if I eat sumptuously to the satisfaction of my tongue, I think I am very much successful. But that is not success. Success is different thing. This is called ''bhukti'', material enjoyment.

So ''bhukti-mukti-siddhi''. When one is fed up with this hard working for material enjoyment and get little sense above material enjoyment, gets little sense for spiritual understanding . . . that we have discussed yesterday. ''Jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.2 (1972)|BG 7.2]]). That is knowledge. To work hard like an ass for sense gratification, that is not ''siddhi. Siddhi'' is different thing. ''Siddhi'' means to understand the spiritual identification and work for it. That is called ''siddhi''. So the attempt for such thing is called ''mukti'': to get rid of the material entanglement. So ''bhukti-mukti-siddhi''. There are three stages. So ''siddhi'' means when one understands his spiritual identity and tries to make his life perfect on that platform, that is called ''siddhi''. Otherwise, ''bhukti-mukti''.

So in the ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' it is said that ''bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī sakali aśānta.'' So long one is on the platform of ''bhukti, mukti'' and ''siddhi'', he is restless. He is working because he's desiring. ''Siddhi'' is specially meant for the ''yogīs''. The ''yogīs'', they want to play wonderful magic: ''aṇimā, laghimā, prāpti-siddhi, īśitā, vaśitā''. There are eight kinds of ''yoga'' ''siddhis''. That kind of ''siddhi'' is not recommended here. ''Siddhi'' means to understand one's spiritual identity and work for it. That is called ''siddhi''. So ''manuṣyāṇām'' . . . who knows it? There is no such education. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]), "Out of million, million person, one tries for this ''siddhi'', perfection of life, to understand spiritual identity and to work for it." That is called ''siddhi''. And ''yatatām api siddhānām'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]): "One who has attained siddhi and trying for it further, further progress, out of them, millions of such person, one can understand what is Kṛṣṇa."
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