You cannot fly all the days in the sky. That is not possible. That is neutral stage. Neither in other planet, nor in this planet, flying. How long you shall fly? You have to take some shelter. But if you have no shelter in the higher planets or higher situation, then you shall have to come down.
So . . . the same example can be repeated. Suppose if you go in the outer space . . . just like the sputnik men, they go sometime. People think, "Oh, where he has gone, so high, so high." But he has not gone anywhere. He's coming down again. So it is false clapping, "Oh, he has gone so high, so high." What is the use of going so high?
You are coming down next moment. Because you have no power to enter into another planet, so what your machine, this sputnik or these planes, will help you? You have to come down again. Rather, you shall fall down in some Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean, and somebody will go and pick you up. You see? This is your position.
So voidism means to fly in the sky and be puffed up, "I have come so high, I have come so high, so high." (chuckles) That foolish man does not know how long he'll keep in that high position. You see? He will come down. This is māyā's attraction. He'll have to come down. There is a verse in the . . .
- ye 'nye 'ravindākṣa vimukta-māninas
- tvayy asta-bhāvād aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ
- āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ
- patanty adho 'nādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ
- (SB 10.2.32)
This is the prayer by Prahlāda Mahārāja. He says: "My dear Lord, lotus-eyed, Aravindākṣa," ye anye. "Some third-class men, they are very much proud of ending this material life, these nirvāṇa, or these impersonalist." Vimukta-māninaḥ. Vimukta-māninaḥ means they are simply falsely thinking that they have surpassed the clutches of māyā. Falsely.
Vimukta-māninaḥ. Just like if you falsely think that, "I am the proprietor of this Los Angeles city," is it not your false thinking? Similarly, if anyone thinks that, "Now I have attained nirvāṇa, or I have merged into the Supreme . . ." You may think like that. But māyā is very strong. You may be puffed up by such false prestige. Vimukta-māninaḥ.
But Bhāgavata says, tvayy asta-bhāvād aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ: "But because they have not searched out Your lotus feet, therefore their consciousness is impure, thinking 'I am something.' " Aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ: "Their intelligence, consciousness, is not purified." Therefore āruhya kṛcchreṇa: "They perform very severe practice."
Just like the Buddhists, they have got very . . . now, those who are not practicing, that is different thing. But rules and regulation, Lord Buddha himself, he showed. He left his everything and became engaged in simply meditation. Who is doing that? Nobody is doing that. Śaṅkarācārya's first condition is that "First of all you take sannyāsa; then you talk of becoming Nārāyaṇa."