Story 45 Yogi who could walk on water
PRABHUPĀDA: As I told you, one story, it is very… not… amusing.
One boy, he went out of home and mixed with yogis for several years.
Then, after some time, he came to his village,
and all the… all the friends and relatives gathered:
“Oh, you have been so many years with yogis.
What you have learned?”
Actually yogis can do wonderful things.
One yogi used to come to our house.
He was my father’s…
My father used to respect him.
So he told us that within a minute… few minutes,
they will go several hundreds of miles.
Simply he will touch his Guru Mahārāja and sit down,
and he’ll see in another place within few seconds some thousands of miles away.
The yogis can perform this.
So one yogi… He came to his village,
and all the people—relatives—surrounded him: “What you have learned, please?”
So he said that “I have learned this mystic power; I can walk on the water.”
This is called laghimā-siddhi:
To become so light that one can fly in the air or one can walk on the water.
So everyone became inquisitive.
“Oh, please show me; please show us one day.”
So he agreed, “All right; I shall show on that date.”
Then one old man said, “My dear friend,
you have been so long with the yogis,
but you have learned only two-cent-worth power.”
“What is that?”
“Now you will walk over the water, and I shall pay two cent to the boatman.
He will take me to the other side.
So what you have gained?
You have so much labored, but you have gained only two-cent-worth.”
You see?
So these yogis are after two cent.
Even their perfection.
There is no… If they are perfect…
But, without being perfect, they are nothing: Simply rascals.
But even they are perfect, that is two-cent worth.
You see?
But here is a yoga system:
We are going to Kṛṣṇa.
Just always remember this.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com