TREASURE OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
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...