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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 23]
eating and mating, one is allowed to practice the different sitting postures. The ultimate aim of  yoga  is to enable one to give up this body according to his own free will. One who has attained the ultimate summit of  yoga  practice can live in the body as long as he likes, or, as long as he is not completely perfect, leave the body to go anywhere within or outside the universe. Some  yogīs  leave their bodies to go to the higher planetary systems and enjoy the material facilities therein. However, intelligent  yogīs  do not wish to waste their time within this material world at all; they do not care for the material facilities in higher planetary systems but are interested in going directly to the spiritual sky, back home, back to Godhead.
From the description in this verse, it appears that Mahārāja Pṛthu had no desire to promote himself to the higher planetary systems. He wanted to return home immediately, back to Godhead. Although Mahārāja Pṛthu stopped all practice of mystic  yoga  after realizing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he nonetheless took advantage of his previous practice and immediately placed himself on the  brahma-bhūta  platform in order to accelerate his return to Godhead. The aim of this particular system of  āsana , known as the sitting posture for liberation, or  muktāsana , is to attain success in  kuṇḍalinī-cakra  and gradually raise the life from the  mūlādhāra-cakra  to the  svādhiṣṭhāna-cakra , then to the  maṇipūra-cakra , the  anāhata-cakra , the  viśuddha-cakra , and finally to the  ājñā-cakra . When the  yogī  reaches the  ājñā-cakra , between the two eyebrows, he is able to penetrate the  brahma-randhra , or the hole in his skull, and go to any planet he desires up to the spiritual kingdom of Vaikuṇṭha, or Kṛṣṇaloka. The conclusion is that one has to come to the  brahma-bhūta  stage for going back to Godhead. However, those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or who are practicing  bhakti-yoga  ( śravaṇam kīrtanam viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam pāda-sevanam ), can return to Godhead without even practicing the  muktāsana  process. The purpose of  muktāsana  practice is to come to the  brahma-bhūta  stage, for without being on the  brahma-bhūta  stage, one cannot be promoted to the spiritual sky. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā :  mām ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate/ sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate  (Bg. 14.26). The  bhakti-yogī , practicing  bhakti-yoga , is always situated on the  brahma-bhūta  stage ( brahma-bhūyāya kalpate ). If a devotee is able to continue on the  brahma-bhūta  platform, he enters the spiritual sky automatically after death and returns to Godhead. Consequently a devotee need not feel sorry for not having practiced the  kuṇḍalinī-cakra  or not penetrating the six  cakras  one after another. As far as Mahārāja Pṛthu was concerned, he had already practiced this process, and since he did not want to wait for the time when his death would occur naturally, he took advantage of the  ṣaṭ-