15/2/76 MÄYÄPUR – A TRANSCENDENTAL DIARY VOL. 1 In this morning’s class Çréla Prabhupäda described his ambitious plans for showing the higher regions of the universe in the Vedic Plan- etarium he’s proposed for Mäyäpur. “There is a Siddhaloka. We shall show how this planet works, Siddhaloka. The description of the Sid- dhaloka is there in the Çrémad-Bhägavatam. The Siddhaloka persons, they can go from one planet to another without any machine, or air- plane. Like the yogis, those who are perfect yogis, they can go from one place to another without any vehicle. There are many yogis still
existing. They take bath in four dhämas—in Hard- war, in Jagannätha Puré, in Rämeçvaram. And similarly ... yogis can do that. They at- tain añöa-siddhi, eight kinds of perfection. So the Siddh- aloka means they are born siddhas. They haven’t got to practice this mystic yoga system.” To illustrate this point he gave the simple, effective example of some siddhas that live within our immediate experience. He pointed out how birds and insects can fly automatical- ly, but we cannot; we have to create so many big ma- chines.Prabhupäda’s idea in having a planetarium is to show that the statements made in the Vedic scriptures are authentic and based on scientific fact, not simply my- thology, as commonly mis-
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