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 The Supreme Lord said: 'When a yogi is connected [in the Absolute Truth], has conquered his senses and breathing and has fixed his attention upon Me, the mystical perfections of yoga are at his disposal.'

Uddhava said: 'Oh You who bring all yogis perfection, kindly tell me which method is required for concentration and how these perfections work. And, Acyuta, how many perfections are there?' 

The Supreme Lord said: 'The masters of yoga speak of eighteen mystical perfections  and meditations [leading to them]. Eight of them are [primary and] prominent in Me and ten of them [are secondary and] originate from the quality [of goodness].  Oh gentle one, the eight mystical perfections consist of the ability to get, as for the form, into the smallest [animâ], the biggest [mahimâ] or the lightest [laghimâ relative to garimâ, the heaviest], the ability to acquire whatever material object [prâpti], the ability to enjoy sensually whatever can be seen or heard [prâkâmya], the ability to have the upper hand in employing the forces [îs'itâ or îs'itvâ], the ability to be in control by means of magic unobstructed by the modes [vas'itvâ] and the ability to answer to any desire that seeks [His] favor [kâmâvasâyitâ]. Know them to be the ones prominent in Me. [The ten secondary siddhis consist of] the ability in this body not to be plagued by hunger and thirst and such, the ability to hear from afar, the ability to see things far away, the ability to be transported with the speed of mind, the ability to assume any form at will, the ability to enter into the bodies of others, the ability to die at will, the ability to witness the sporting [of the heavenly girls] with the gods, the ability to be of perfect accomplishment as one likes and the ability to have one's commands fulfilled unimpeded. To know the past, the present and the future, to be free from the dualities, to know the minds of others, to check the potency of fire, the sun, water, poison and so on and not to be conquered by others are examples of the perfections that are described as being the result of concentrating in yoga. Please learn now from Me by means of which type of meditation what perfection occurs. 

My worshiper who focusses his mind pertaining to the subtle elements of perception on Me as the Self of those sense elements and nothing else, obtains the animâ perfection [the ability to enter the smallest]. Focussing one's mind on the truth of the complete [the mahat-tattva] with Me as the inhabiting soul, one achieves the perfection of mahimâ [to enter the greatest] as also grip on each element separately. The yogi may obtain laghimâ [lightness] by attaching to Me as the supreme element of the smallest elements [the atoms], the subtle property of Time. He who with his mind focussed upon Me narrows down the mind completely to the emotionality of the I-principle, obtains the siddhi of prâpti [mystic acquisition] by which he becomes the proprietor of the senses of all living beings.  In order to obtain from Me, whose appearance lies beyond perception, the super excellent siddhi of prâkâmya [to enjoy whatever whenever] one should fix one's mental activity on Me, the Supersoul that is the thread running through the huge reality of matter When one focusses one's consciousness on Vishnu, the Original Controller of the Three who is the mover in the form of Time, one will obtain the siddhi of îs'itvâ [the supremacy] by means of which the conditioned body [the field] and its knower can be controlled The yogi who fixes his mind on Me, Nârâyana, the fourth state [turîya] that is described by the word fortunate  obtains, being endowed with My nature, the vas'itvâ perfection [the ability to subdue by means of magic]. When one focusses one's mind, that is pure in Me, on the impersonal absolute [brahman] that is free from material qualities [or transcendental], one obtains the supreme of happiness wherein one's desire finds its complete fulfillment [kâmâvasâyitâ].


When a human being concentrates on Me as the Lord , the personification of goodness, the sum total of dharma, he obtains a pure existence free from the six waves [of material disturbance: hunger, thirst, bewilderment, decay, grief and death, anûrmi-mattvam  When one in the mind leads away the transcendental sound that is present in the prâna in Me, the personification of the sky, one perceives therein the Swan [Lord Hamsa or the saintly person, and hears the words spoken by all living beings  When one merges one's eyes with the sun and the sun with one's eyes [doing so transcendentally and not staring physically into the sun] one can, with one's mind in meditation on Me, therein see anything that is far away [dûra-dars'ana, When one fully absorbs one's mind in Me, the body, by the power of the meditation on Me,  that mind follows together with the breath; the self then moves wherever the mind goes [manojava]. Because it lies within the power of My yoga [to appear in different forms], for the mind intent on assuming whatever form, the very form that was desired will appear, when I am the shelter [kâmarûpa]. When a perfected yogi  wishes to enter the body of another person, he must give up his own gross body and project himself into that body. That he should accomplish by, like being the wind, entering it through the vital breath, the way a bee switches flowers [para-kâya-praves'anam]. When [a yogi is about to die and] wants to give up the material body, he blocks his anus with his heel and carries his prâna from the heart up to the chest and from there to the throat to go to the head, from where he, rising to the spiritual seat at the top of the skull [the brahma-randhrena], leads himself to the spiritual world [svacchandu-mrityu, When one desires to enjoy the pleasure gardens of the demigods one should meditate upon the mode of goodness situated in Me, so that one sees the by goodness moved women of the demigods arrive in their vehicles. When someone by means of his reason became convinced of My truth or else by his devotion unto Me, he with his mind thus absorbed consequently will achieve his purpose [yathâ-sankalpa-samsiddhi]. The person who arrived at the realization of My nature, supremacy and dominion, is someone who by no means can be frustrated because his order and command are as good as Mine [âjñâpratihatâ gatih, 

A yogi pure of character who by dint of his devotion unto Me knows how to focus his mind  acquires insight in the three phases of time [past, present and future] supported by knowledge of birth and death Of a sage versed in uniting consciousness whose mind was pacified in My yoga the body cannot be injured by fire and so on, just as aquatics cannot be harmed by the water in which they live  He [my devotee] becomes unconquerable when he meditates upon My expansions that are decorated with the S'rîvatsa and the weapons, flags, ceremonial umbrellas and different fans 

 The man of wisdom who worships Me thus by the process of concentrating in yoga, will in every respect be attended by the mystical perfections as described. What perfection would be difficult to achieve for a sage who being focussed by meditation on Me subjugated his senses, his breathing and his mind? One says [though] that they [these siddhis], for the one who practices the highest form of yoga - the [bhakti] yoga by means of which one obtains everything thinkable from Me - are a hindrance and a waste of time. All perfections one in this world may acquire by birth, by herbs, austerities and by mantras are all obtained by the practice of [bhakti] yoga. Progress in uniting one's consciousness cannot be achieved by any other method  I am the cause and the protector of all the perfections. I am the Lord of Yoga [the final union], the Lord of analysis, of dharma and of the [Vedic] teachers, propounders and adherents. The same way material elements have their existence inside and outside the living beings, I Myself, the Soul, who cannot be enclosed, exist inside and outside of all the embodied beings