SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

146 Srnnad-Bhigavabun [Canto 7, Ch. 3are keeping your life air circulating within your bones. Certainlythis is wonderful.PURPORTIt appears that the soul can exist even through the bones, as shown bythe personal example of Hira.Qyakasipu. When great yogis are insamadhi, even when their bodies are buried and their skin, marrow,blood and so on have all been eaten, if only their bones remain they canexist in a transcendental position. Very recently an archaeologistpublished findings indicating that Lord Christ, after being buried, wasexhumed and that he then went to Kashmir. There have been many actualexamples of yogis' being buried in trance and exhumed alive and ingood condition several hours later. A yogi can keep himself alive in atranscendental state even if buried not only for many days but for manyyears.TEXT 19 €fifiij Iit:llllnaitat pilroar$aya.S cakrurna kari$yanti ciiparenirambur dhiirayet priiT}iinko vai divya-samiib, satamna-not; etat-this; pilroa-r$ayab,-the sages before you, such asBbrgu; cakrub,-executed; na-nor; kari$yanti-will execute; caalso;apare-others; nirambub,-without drinking water; dhiirayetcansustain; priiT}iin-the life air; kab,-who; vai-indeed; divyasamiib,-celestialyears; satam-one hundred.TRANSLATIONEven saintly persons like Bh:rgu, born previously, could notperform such severe austerities, nor will anyone in the future beable to do so. Who within these three worlds can sustain his lifewithout even drinking water for one hundred celestial years?