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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 5]
aspiring after liberation and trying to become one with the Supreme.  Yogīs  are aspiring after many  siddhis  (powers)— aṇimā ,  laghimā ,  prāpti , etc. However, a devotee is not at all interested in these things because he is fully dependent on the mercy of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is  yogeśvara , the possessor of all mystic powers ( siddhis ), and He is  āt-mārāma , fully self-satisfied. The  yoga-siddhis  are described in this verse. One can fly in outer space without the aid of a machine, and he can travel at the speed of mind. This means that as soon as a  yogī  desires to go somewhere within this universe or even beyond this universe, he can do so immediately. One cannot estimate the speed of mind, for within a second the mind can go many millions of miles. Sometimes  yogīs  enter into the bodies of other people and act as they desire when their bodies are not working properly. When the body becomes old, a perfect  yogī  can find a young, able body. Giving up his old body, the  yogī  can enter into the young body and act as he pleases. Being a plenary expansion of Lord Vāsudeva, Lord Rṣabhadeva possessed all these mystic  yoga  powers, but He was satisfied with His devotional love of Kṛṣṇa, which was evinced by the ecstatic symptoms, such as crying, laughing and shivering.
Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fifth Canto, Fifth Chapter of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam entitled “Lord Rṣabhadeva’s Teachings to His Sons.”