(Vintage photo of the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza—click to enlarge)
Devotee: He says in history there was the mystery of the sphinxes of Egypt. Do these sphinxes carry any significance?
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Devotee (2): Is the pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt civilization are any mystic significance?
Devotee: It's a great relevance for the Egyptian civilization.
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is just like samādhi. Samādhi, when you become samādhi, then if you're, I mean to say, put within the earth, you do not die.
Devotee (2): Even if you are put in the earth, you do not die.
Prabhupāda: This is called kumbhaka-yoga.
Guest: Kumbha?
Prabhupāda: Kumbhaka. So this is practiced by the frogs also. So if you get success, you get success like a frog.
(Srila Prabhupada Conversation with Buddhists, Paris, June 15, 1974)
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