Beware of "magician tricks" by modern yogis who claim them to be spiritual.

Beware of "magician tricks" by modern yogis who claim them to be spiritual.

Some today are asking if Prabhupada could levitate, but the fact is Prabhupada never took such subjects seriously, he considered such mundane tricks as cheap only meant to amaze and attract the less intelligent and uneducated.

It is what Srila Prabhupada "said" and "lived" that was important, I lived with Prabhupada off and on for 7 years, he was never interested in such cheap magician thrills that some mystic yogis of the Himalayers could perform.

He taught us that there is the "gross" material body" and the "subtle" material body.

On this Earthly planet our subtle body, we, the jivatma or soul is in, is further contained in a gross material biolgical material bodily vessel.

And while in the higher heavenly planets and lower hellish planets, we, the jivatma or soul, is only in the material subtle bodily vessel that contains the soul or jivatma.

The real perpetual home of the jivatama is outside this temporary decaying material creation's "gross and subtle" material coverings, in either the Vaikuntha planets or Goloka Vrindavana, depending on our relationship with the Lord.

Prabhupada told us the greatest mystical thing he did, if that is what people want to call it, was the translation of all his wonderful colorful books such as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavat Purana), Bhagavat Gita As It Is, Caitanya Caritamtita.

He said any fool yogi can walk on water or float in the air attracting cheap disciples with magicians tricks.

He said such things are also material.

He told us when the original Si Baba went to America he was introduced to an American magician.

When they met Si Baba magically produced flowers for the magician as a greeting gift, the magican immediatly magically also produced flowers for Si Baba.

Then Si Baba magically gave him a watch and the magician magically gave Si Baba a watch.

Then the magician laughed at Si Baba and said -

"You are just a magician like me"

Si Baba never again went back to America after that because the media exposed his cheap tricks in an attempt to win over gullible and foolish men and women.

Prabhupada was never impressed with silly magic tricks even from even the yogis who actually had these mystical powers because it is all just another higher expression of materialism that the modern scientists has yet to develope.

And certainly NOT spiritual as the less intelligent and naive foolish Indian villagers believed and cheated by.

Prabhupada told us that both the modern scientists and the mystic yogis manipulate material energy, one through building machines the other with mind over matter.

Both are mundane materialism to a Vaishnava devotee of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

The real miracle is Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's great Sankirtan Movement that Srila Prabhupada gave the ENTIRE World in just 12 short years!