Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service
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he likes he can take fruit from a garden there. This is  prāpti-siddhi .
The modern scientists have manufactured nuclear weapons with which they can destroy an insignificant part of this planet, but by the  yoga-siddhi  known as  īśitā  one can create and destroy an entire planet simply at will. Another perfection is called  vaśitā , and by this perfection one can bring anyone under his control. This is a kind of hypnotism which is almost irresistible. Sometimes it is found that a  yogī  who may have attained a little perfection in this  vaśitā  mystic power comes out among the people and speaks all sorts of nonsense, controls their minds, exploits them, takes their money and then goes away.
There is another mystic perfection which is known as  prākāmya  (magic). By this  prākāmya  power one can achieve anything he likes. For example, one can make water enter into his eye and then again come out from within the eye. Simply by his will he can perform such wonderful activities.
The highest perfection of mystic power is called  kāmāvasāyitā . This is also magic, but whereas the  prākāmya  power acts to create wonderful effects within the scope of nature,  kāmāvasāyitā  permits one to contradict nature—in other words, to do the impossible. Of course, one can derive great amounts of temporary happiness by achieving such yogic materialistic perfections.
Foolishly, people who are enamored of the glimmer of modern materialistic advancement are thinking that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for less intelligent men. “I am better off being busy with my material comforts—maintaining a nice apartment, family and sex life.” These people do not know that at any moment they can be kicked out of their material situation. Due to ignorance, they do not know that real life is eternal. The temporary comforts of the body are not the goal of life, and it is due only to darkest ignorance that people become enamored of the glimmering advancement of material comforts.
Śrīla Bhaktivinode Thākur has therefore said that the advancement of material knowledge renders a person more foolish because it causes one to forget his real identification by its glimmer. This is doom for