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THEMATIC ESSENCE OF UDDHAVA-

GÉTÄLesson 10: The Limitations of Mystic Yoga Perfection

(SB Canto 11, Chapter 15)

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Chapter Highlights

In response to Uddhava’s question, Krsna describes the 8 primary and 10 secondary mystic perfections, their characteristics, and what type of dhäraëa, or meditation is to be practiced for the attainment of each one.

These mystic perfections are developed by fixing one’s mind in yoga, but are ultimately detrimental to cultivation of love of Godhead.

So why is Uddhava asking Krsna to explain and why did Krsna spoke about them? (Contnd)

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All these mystic perfections are automatically offered to a pure devotee, but he does not accept them.

Unless utilized in the devotional service of the Lord, these have no value.

The 8 siddhés, or mystic perfections are primary dhäraëas because they have been manifested from His internal potency, and are thus transcendental.

The other ten meditations are mundane, begin born from the material modes of nature (goodness).

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The 8 Primary siddhés

Characteristics

How are they developed in serving for Krsna?

aëimä Becoming smaller than the smallest—pertains to the body

Fixing one’s mind on Krsna’s atomic form, the Supersoul enables one to enter within any

material object

laghimä becoming lighter than the lightest—pertains

to the body

Understanding that Krsna is subtler than time and He expands to become the time factor

mahimä Becoming greater than the greatest—pertains to the body

Fixing one’s mind on the Lord situated in the mahat-tattva as the Supersoul of the total material elements realization of the entire

universe non-different from Krsna

präpti One acquires whatever one desires

—related to the senses

Fixing one’s mind on the Lord as He is situated within the false ego revival of one’s relationship with the Absolute Truth all of his senses become

engaged in His service

präkämya Enables one to experience any

enjoyable object

By fixed meditation on the Supreme Lord who is the soul of the mahat-tattva

éçitä Enables one to manipulate the

subpotencies of mäyä

By meditation of the Supersoul, the personification of the time and the controller

of the 3 modes of material nature the devotee can control the material bodies of others

vaçitä Enables one to be unimpeded by the modes of nature

By meditation on His form as Näräryana, who is full of 6 opulences and who is fully

transendental endowed with His nature

kämavasäyitä

Enables one to obtain anything he may

desire

When one dovetails all of his desires in the service of the eternal Kämadeva, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead

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The 10 secondary mystic perfections

1. anurmimattva, or free oneself from hunger and thirst

2. dura-çravana, or hear from the distance3. dura-darsana, or see fro the distance

4. icchänurupa dhera gati, or move one’s body as he desires

5. icchänurupa äkära grahana, or take whatever shape one desires

6. parakäya-pravesa, or enter into another’s body

7. svecchämrtyu, or die according to one’s will

8. deva kridä darsana, or witness the pastimes of the demigods with the Apsaräs

9. sankalpita padärtha präpti, or act however one desires

10. apratihatä äjnä, or give orders whose fulfillment is unimpeded

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These ten secondary mystic siddhés produced from the modes of material nature are the power to free oneself from hunger and thirst, to hear and see things happening in a distant place, to move one’s body at the speed of the mind, to assume any form one desires, to enter the bodies of others, to die according to one’s will, to witness the pastimes of the demigods with the Apsaräs, to act however one desires, and to give orders whose fulfillment is unimpeded.

Knowledge of the past, present and the future, being undisturbed by heat and cold, understanding the intensions of others, neutralization of the powers of fire, the sun, water, prison, and so on. (Contd)

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“Whatever mystic perfections can be achieved as a result of good birth, herbs, austerities, and mantras can be achieved by engagement in My devotional service. In fact, one cannot attain the actual perfection of yoga by any other means” (34)

For example, by taking birth as a demigod, one is automatically endowed with many mystic perfections.

Being born in Siddhaloka, one gets all the 8 principle siddhés; being born as a fish, bird, etc, one can swim under water, fly in the sky, respectively.

The Supreme Lord alone is the object of various paths of perfection.

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