Re: Siddhis and the Power to Perform Mystical Deeds

Dear prabhu,

         Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! My humble pranams!

         If it is absolutely necessary to use siddhis, then and only then do devotees actually use them. Devotees have all mystic perfections far greater than any mystic yogis, they just never use them. Devotees are very simple and humble by nature and they never fall to the lure of heroic achievements. Atleast that is my experience from reading and other  association. The only one place where they do use them is when the Lord wants them to do it and not otherwise.

         My thanks to you for raising another point. Also after being repeatedly kicked by maya, I have come to the conclusion that whenever I give a little room to some material desire by saying that it won't affect my devotion, unfortunately that is exactly where I fell in headfirst. I have had many bitter lessons in the process seeing it in myself and others too. I am still just trying to get back after one such extremely painful beating session and this time to me whenever I justify some materialistic desires by saying that my bhakti won't get affected by a little bit of this, it's like opening the door to maya and saying, "Oh please come in very happily and plunder me to pieces."

          Now-a-days so many facilities have been created that have eliminated the need for many of those siddhis. For eg. the aeroplanes. In any case, the real siddhi for the jiva soul is only to become a servant of the servants. That is the only siddhi for fallen souls like me. The rest of those siddhis simply come in the way of making us realise that we are daasanudaasas of the Lord.

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