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Mahāprabhujī, in his small biography Amṛt—written by my master—describes things that, upon reading, you will say, "I cannot believe this." For instance, he restored life to a person who had been dead for several hours. Mahāprabhujī simply said, "Okay, get up and go," and that person is still living. Medical science would say that if one dies and returns to the body even after a minute, the brain is damaged. But in that case, not at all. The siddhis (perfections) we can achieve in our life will take time; they are not for now. Because right now, it is our ambition and ego at work. Where there is ambition and ego, perfection is not there. You have to die in order to live again. What does it mean to die? Kill your ego, kill your ambitions. On the day you say, "I don’t want anything, I have no desires. I only want good things and to help," that is all. Then the siddhis will run behind you. If you run behind the siddhis, they will run away. And if you chase them, these siddhis will become māyā for you. Who does not know about māyā? Very good. Only a few do not know, but many know. Those who do not know should also know now. Māyā means temptation. Māyā means illusion. You think something is there, but there is nothing. You become disappointed. It is a temptation, and this temptation will lead you in the wrong direction. So do not be a slave of māyā. Māyā appears to us in such a way that we think, "This is only the beautiful thing, and that is only what I want." And after that, māyā will destroy you and go away. All desires in which the hidden qualities of māyā reside—if you have not freed yourself from this, you will achieve nothing. The spiritual qualities we are thinking and talking about—I do not mean money and business, as these are worldly things—are different. Here, Mahāprabhujī or Gurujī is describing what kind of Siddhis Mahāprabhujī had. First, Siddhi is known as Aṇimā: the ability to make one’s body as small as one likes. The second is Mahima: the ability to make one’s body as large as one wishes. How nice, no? When it is a small room, we can all squeeze together. If someone has read the holy book Rāmāyaṇa and the stories of Hanumānjī, he had those siddhis of aṇimā and mahimā. But we do not have this siddhi. Every day we fight to make our body more slender, but even that cannot be done. There are some people, you know, who do not eat. They only look at the food, and their body expands. So if we cannot even manage this, how can we say we already have the siddhis? But these are the hidden powers within you. That is what I want to talk about. These abilities you have with you, but we do not know how. It is like a combination lock with 108 numbers. If it is a lock with only three or four numbers, we have to fight long to know it. But if it has many, many numbers—108—to find all combinations is a master work, is it not? The third siddhi, the perfection, is called Vaśiṣṭha: control over the elements and not being a slave to them. Control over the elements means you can walk through fire, you can walk on water—many, many things. It is described in the book in much more detail. Then there is Anumitwa. The siddhi anumitwa is the quenching of hunger and thirst. Here we come to one point. They say in the Himalayas there are yogīs who do not eat and do not drink. Yes, there are. I know some persons; there is one lady who does not eat and does not drink. She is now, I think, 15 years without eating or drinking. And she is preaching, talking, walking; she is healthy, not lying in a coma. Some people train in this technique. There is a call for cosmic nourishment, and there is a training. Really, some people tried this. I live in Vienna, Austria. There was one lady whom I did not see for two or three months. Then one day she came to me and said, "You know, Swāmījī, I do not eat." And she did not drink. I said, "That is a joke." Then she said, "You know, I took one training course." I said, "What, the energy food? Energy nourishment?" Well, I said, okay, anyhow, sit down and have a cup of tea. She said, "No, no, I do not drink. Didn’t you realize, Swāmījī? I do not drink any liquid, I do not eat any food." Then I said, "Aha, sit down, please. Come near, tell me, what is that?" And she told me the whole story of how her trainer trained them. A few days were not easy, but then suddenly a border was crossed, and energy began to develop in the body again. She went two years without eating or drinking, and then she said it became boring. Her friends would invite her, they would eat and do this and that, and she would not eat. They felt unpleasant, and she also felt it, so she began to eat again. Anyhow, if you would like to train yourself in this way, there is a possibility. This ability is within you. Suddenly, some chakra will awaken in you, and through those chakras, you will be able to receive cosmic light in such a way that the cosmic mother is nourishing her child, and then this plant. We are also a plant, you know. We are a movable plant. There are plants in the desert that walk. There are plants that move, and they live from energy, from the air. You can also live. At that time, your body is very pure, with little mala (impurity). There is little mala, little urine and stool, and you are not losing weight. In the first beginning phase, you will lose many kilos, but then again your body will gain such strength; your muscles will be strong. You can walk 15 hours without any tiredness. This is a siddhi. That is the hidden power in you. It is not given to you from outside. It is within us, but we have forgotten and neglected it. That chakra is dormant because we are living for eating, and we are not eating for living. So prāṇāyāma, saṅkhaprakṣālana, the purification—there is Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga is different from what you are practicing. You are practicing āsanas and prāṇāyāma. This is not Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga has six kriyās. In your yoga book it is described, or… what is the name? Adidas? And his wife Mukti, they are here. They can teach you these purification kriyās, and then you will see how clean and how fine you feel. You are walking on the ground, on the earth, but you will feel that you are flying. There is a purification of the body, but you have to follow the principles again. After doing Śakti Prakāśalan, how many days should you follow a strict diet? Otherwise, on one side you clean, and on the other side somebody comes and throws dust on it. That is it. So purification, everything is realized through the pure mind, pure consciousness.