You are simply trying to go to the nearest planet. That is also failure. So what is your scientific improvement?

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"You are simply trying to go to the nearest planet. That is also failure. So what is your scientific improvement"

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Festival Lectures

Kṛṣṇa has already said in the Bhagavad-gītā, abrahma-bhuvanāl lokān. What to speak of this moon planet—it is very near—even if you go to the topmost planet, which is known as Brahmaloka . . . that is in your front, you can see every day, every night, how many lokas and planets are there. But you cannot go there. You are simply trying to go to the nearest planet. That is also failure. So what is your scientific improvement? But there is possibility. Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokān (BG 8.16). You can go. The material scientists' calculation is that if one goes forward for forty thousands of years in the light speed, light-year speed, then one can approach the topmost planet of this material world. So at least in the modern scientific calculation it is impossible. But one can go; there is process.

710829 - Lecture Festival Appearance Day, Srimati Radharani, Radhastami - London

One can be out of distress when he approaches Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇuṁ paramaṁ padaṁ sada paśyanti sūrayaḥ (Ṛg-veda 1.22.20). Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padam. The Viṣṇu planet . . . just like here in the material world they're trying to go to the moon planet, but these foolish people do not know what they'll gain even they go to the moon planet. It is one of the material planets.

Kṛṣṇa has already said in the Bhagavad-gītā, abrahma-bhuvanāl lokān. What to speak of this moon planet—it is very near—even if you go to the topmost planet, which is known as Brahmaloka . . . that is in your front, you can see every day, every night, how many lokas and planets are there. But you cannot go there. You are simply trying to go to the nearest planet. That is also failure. So what is your scientific improvement?

But there is possibility. Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokān (BG 8.16). You can go. The material scientists' calculation is that if one goes forward for forty thousands of years in the light speed, light-year speed, then one can approach the topmost planet of this material world. So at least in the modern scientific calculation it is impossible. But one can go; there is process.

That we have tried to explain in our small booklet Easy Journey to Other Planet. By yogic process one can go any planet he likes. That is the yogic perfection. When a yogī becomes perfect, he can go to any planet he likes, and the yoga practice goes on, unless the yogī thinks himself that he has made himself perfect to travel to any planet he likes. That is perfection of yoga practice.

So these are the perfection of life, not that teeny, floating sputnik. (laughter) They do not know what is perfection of life. You can go anywhere. A living entity's name is sarva-gaḥ. Sarva-gaḥ means "one who can go anywhere he likes." Just Nārada Muni. Nārada Muni can travel anywhere he likes, either in the spiritual world or in the material world. So you can also do that. There is possibility. There was a Durvāsā Muni, great yogī. Within one year he traveled all over the universe and went to Viṣṇuloka and again came back. That is recorded in the history.