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TREASURE OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE

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Practicing Yoga in the Modern Age Superconsciousness The goals of modern-day Western yoga enthusiasts are dwarfed by the achievements of India's ancient yogīs,  who, according to historical accounts, could become smaller than atoms and lighter than air and who could travel, unaided, anywhere in the universe. Yet even these superachievements, says Śrīla Prabhupāda, are "only a step forward." How the true pinnacle of human consciousness, superconsciousness,  is obtainable—here and now—is disclosed by Śrīla Prabhupāda in the following talk given in 1967. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the highest  yoga  performance by trained devotional  yogīs.  The  yoga  system, as is stated in the standard  yoga  practice formula given by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the  Bhagavad-gītā,  and as recommended in the Patañjali  yoga  discipline, is different from the nowadays practiced  haṭha-yoga  as is generally understood in the West...