Pure devotion to Krishna surpasses all yogic powers, Vedic rituals, and material achievements combined.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.11 — September 13, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750913SB-VRNDAVAN [31:32 Minutes] SB-06.02.11_750913SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Sixth Canto, Second Chapter, verse number eleven.
[leads chanting of verse, etc.] na niṣkṛtair uditair brahma-vādibhis tathā viśuddhyaty aghavān vratādibhiḥ yathā harer nāma-padair udāhṛtais tad uttamaśloka-guṇopalambhakam [SB 6.2.11] [break] [02:07]
Prabhupāda: na niṣkṛtair uditair brahma-vādibhis tathā viśuddhyaty aghavān vratādibhiḥ yathā harer nāma-padair udāhṛtais tad uttamaśloka-guṇopalambhakam [SB 6.2.11] So the Viṣṇudūtas, they are instructing the Yamadūtas. They are authorized person. These Viṣṇudūta, they are authorized persons. They are not ordinary person.
They are coming from Vaikuṇṭha. Just like Nārada Muni comes from higher planetary system, Vaikuṇṭhaloka. He is called deva-ṛṣi. He travels all over the universes, material and spiritual.
He has got special concession. Sometimes... [child making noise—Hindi] Sometimes we have got information the yogīs, they can also travel not only within this material universe but in the spiritual. The instance of... [child making noise] Durvāsā Muni.
Durvāsā Muni, when he committed offense at the feet of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa... Mahārāja Ambarīṣa was a gṛhastha, a kṣatriya and king. He had to rule over the kingdom. But because he was devotee, he was very respectful.
So Durvāsā Muni, he was a great yogī. He became very much envious of this king, Ambarīṣa Mahārāja, that "He is ordinary gṛhastha, dealing with politics, and I am a great yogī, known all over the universe, and he is more respected than me?" So he wanted to punish him to show him his yogic power. Sometimes the yogīs, they get some power and misuse it for personal sense gratification. That is the pitfall of yogic perfection.