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Devahūti's Lamentation
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verse in the eight directions, and each and every one of them is wonderful in itself. Each planet has its particular climatic influences and particular types of inhabitants and is completely equipped with everything, including the beauty of the seasons. In the  Brahma-saṁhitā  (Bs. 5.40) it is similarly stated,  vibhūti-bhinnam : on each and every planet there are different opulences. It cannot be expected that one planet is exactly like another. By God's grace, by nature's law, each and every planet is made differently and has different wonderful features. All such wonders were personally experienced by Kardama Muni while he traveled with his wife, yet he could return again to his humble hermitage. He showed his princess wife that although he was living in the hermitage, he had the power to go everywhere and do anything by mystic  yoga . That is the perfection of  yoga . One cannot become a perfect  yogī  simply by showing some sitting postures, nor by such sitting postures or so-called meditation can one become God, as is being advertised. Foolish persons are misled into believing that simply by some caricature of meditation and sitting postures one can become God within six months.
Here is the example of a perfect  yogī ; he could travel all over the universe. Similarly, there is a description of Durvāsā Muni, who also traveled in space. Actually, the perfect  yogī  can do that. But even if one can travel all over the universe and show wonderful feats like Kardama Muni, he cannot be compared to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose power and inconceivable energy can never be attained by any conditioned or liberated soul. By the actions of Kardama Muni we can understand that in spite of his immense mystic power, he remained a devotee of the Lord. That is the real position of every living entity.
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विभज्य नवधाऽऽत्मानं मानवीं सुरतोत्सुकाम् । रामां निरमयन् रेमे वर्षपूर्णान्मुहूर्तवत् ॥४४॥
vibhajya navadhātmānaṁ mānavīṁ suratotsukām rāmāṁ niramayan reme varṣa-pūgān muhūrtavat
vibhajya —having divided;  nava-dhā —into nine;  ātmānam —himself;  māna-vīṁ —the daughter of Manu (Devahūti);  surata —for sex life;  utsukām —who was eager;  rāmām —to his wife;  niramayan —giving pleasure;  reme —he enjoyed;  varṣa-pūgān —for many years;  muhūrta-vat —like a moment.