0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,201 Story 45 Yogi who could walk on water 1 00:00:01,202 --> 00:00:06,970 PRABHUPĀDA: As I told you, one story, it is very… not… amusing. 2 00:00:06,971 --> 00:00:14,977 One boy, he went out of home and mixed with yogis for several years. 3 00:00:14,978 --> 00:00:18,096 Then, after some time, he came to his village, 4 00:00:18,097 --> 00:00:21,687 and all the… all the friends and relatives gathered: 5 00:00:21,688 --> 00:00:26,018 “Oh, you have been so many years with yogis. 6 00:00:26,019 --> 00:00:26,978 What you have learned?” 7 00:00:26,979 --> 00:00:32,098 Actually yogis can do wonderful things. 8 00:00:32,099 --> 00:00:34,770 One yogi used to come to our house. 9 00:00:34,771 --> 00:00:36,276 He was my father’s… 10 00:00:36,277 --> 00:00:38,708 My father used to respect him. 11 00:00:38,709 --> 00:00:43,602 So he told us that within a minute… few minutes, 12 00:00:43,603 --> 00:00:47,034 they will go several hundreds of miles. 13 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:52,341 Simply he will touch his Guru Mahārāja and sit down, 14 00:00:52,342 --> 00:00:57,600 and he’ll see in another place within few seconds some thousands of miles away. 15 00:00:57,601 --> 00:01:00,046 The yogis can perform this. 16 00:01:00,047 --> 00:01:03,621 So one yogi… He came to his village, 17 00:01:03,622 --> 00:01:08,376 and all the people—relatives—surrounded him: “What you have learned, please?” 18 00:01:08,377 --> 00:01:15,039 So he said that “I have learned this mystic power; I can walk on the water.” 19 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,579 This is called laghimā-siddhi: 20 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:23,606 To become so light that one can fly in the air or one can walk on the water. 21 00:01:23,607 --> 00:01:25,537 So everyone became inquisitive. 22 00:01:25,538 --> 00:01:29,040 “Oh, please show me; please show us one day.” 23 00:01:29,041 --> 00:01:32,856 So he agreed, “All right; I shall show on that date.” 24 00:01:32,857 --> 00:01:37,074 Then one old man said, “My dear friend, 25 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:39,802 you have been so long with the yogis, 26 00:01:39,803 --> 00:01:46,197 but you have learned only two-cent-worth power.” 27 00:01:46,198 --> 00:01:47,722 “What is that?” 28 00:01:47,723 --> 00:01:53,048 “Now you will walk over the water, and I shall pay two cent to the boatman. 29 00:01:53,049 --> 00:01:59,553 He will take me to the other side. 30 00:01:59,554 --> 00:02:02,343 So what you have gained? 31 00:02:02,344 --> 00:02:10,705 You have so much labored, but you have gained only two-cent-worth.” 32 00:02:10,706 --> 00:02:11,692 You see? 33 00:02:11,693 --> 00:02:16,964 So these yogis are after two cent. 34 00:02:16,965 --> 00:02:18,198 Even their perfection. 35 00:02:18,199 --> 00:02:20,811 There is no… If they are perfect… 36 00:02:20,812 --> 00:02:26,523 But, without being perfect, they are nothing: Simply rascals. 37 00:02:26,524 --> 00:02:30,224 But even they are perfect, that is two-cent worth. 38 00:02:30,225 --> 00:02:31,318 You see? 39 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:33,634 But here is a yoga system: 40 00:02:33,635 --> 00:02:37,994 We are going to Kṛṣṇa. 41 00:02:37,995 --> 00:02:47,499 Just always remember this. 42 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:47,501 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com