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The Lord in the Heart
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Since a materialist is generally inquisitive to experience what is actually in such planetary systems, he wants to see everything personally. As inquisitive persons tour all over the world to gain direct local experience, similarly the less intelligent transcendentalist also desires to have some experience of those planets about which he has heard so many wonderful things. The  yogī  can, however, easily fulfill his desire by going there with the present materialistic mind and senses. The prime factor of the materialistic mind is to lord it over the material world, and all the  siddhis  mentioned above are features of domination over the world. The devotees of the Lord are not ambitious to dominate a false and temporary phenomenon. On the other hand, a devotee wants to be dominated by the supreme predominator, the Lord. A desire to serve the Lord, the supreme predominator, is spiritual or transcendental, and one has to attain this purification of the mind and the senses to get an admission into the spiritual kingdom. With the materialistic mind one can reach the best planet in the universe, but no one can enter into the kingdom of God. Senses are called spiritually purified when they are not involved in sense gratification. Senses require engagements, and when the senses are engaged totally in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, they have no chance to become contaminated by material infections.
TEXT 23
योगेश्वराणां गतिमाहुरन्त- 
    र्वहिस्त्रिलोक्याः पवनान्तरात्मनाम् । 
    न कर्मभिज्ञां गतिमाप्नुवन्ति 
    विद्यातपोयोगसमाधिभाजाम् ॥२३॥
yogeśvarāṇām gatim āhur antar- 
    bahis-tri-lokyāḥ pavanāntar-ātmanām 
    na karmabhis tām gatim āpnuvanti 
    vidyā-tapo-yoga-samādhi-bhājām
yogeśvarāṇām —of the great saints and devotees;  gatim —destinations;  āhuḥ —it is said;  antar —within;  bahiḥ —without;  tri-lokyāḥ —of the three planetary systems;  pavana-antar —within the air;  ātmanām —of the subtle body;  na —never;  karmabhiḥ —by fruitive activities;  tām —that;  gatim —