Text 14) Maharaja Prthu’s Going Back Home 991

krsna tvadiya-padapankaja- paiijarantam
adyaiva me visatu manasa-rdja-hamsah

prana-prayadna-samaye kapha-vata-pittaih
kanthdvarodhana-vidhau smaranam kutas te

King Kulasekhara wanted to give up his body while in a healthy state,
and he thus prayed to Krsna to let him die immediately while he was in
good health and while his mind was sound. When a man dies, he is generally
overpowered by mucus and bile, and thus he chokes. Since it is very diffi-
cult to vibrate any sound while choking, it is simply by Krsna’s grace that
one can chant Hare Krsna at the time of death. However, by situating one-
self in the muktdsana position, a yogi can immediately give up his body
and go to whatever planet he desires. A perfect yogi can give up his body
whenever he desires through the practice of yoga.

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sampidya payum parsnibhyam
vayum utsarayaii chanath

nabhyam kosthesv avasthapya
hrd-urah-kantha-sirsani

sampidya—by blocking; payum—the door of the anus; pdrsnibhyam—by
the calves; va@yum—the air which goes up; utsdrayan—pushing upward;
Sanaih—gradually; nabhyadm—by the navel; kosthesu—in the heart and in
the throat; avasthdpya—fixing up; hrt—in the heart; urah—upwards;
kantha—throat; sirsani— between the two eyebrows.

TRANSLATION

When Maharaja Prthu practiced a particular yogic sitting posture, he
blocked the doors of his anus with his ankles, pressed his right and left
calves and gradually raised his life air upward, passing it on to the circle of
his navel, up to his heart and throat, and finally pushed it upward to the
central position between his two eyebrows.

PURPORT

The sitting posture described herein is called muktasana. In the yoga
process, after following the strict regulative principles controlling sleeping,
