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Daily Yogi: A Podcast to Expand Your Perspective on Life
Your Task Is to Realize Its Presence
You carry this sun of life within. Your task is not to find it. It's already there.
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Take this reflection into the silence, and I'll see you next time.
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A man in the sky stands motionless on clouds, watching. Lightning flashes around him, but he doesn't flinch. Judgment radiates from his ancient eyes.
An image that haunted me for years. This is the portrait we're handed when we hear the word "God." A divine judge. A cosmic enforcer. A bearded figure with human attributes deciding our fate.
The Yogis rejected this entirely. They understood what Jesus meant when he declared: "God is Spirit." Not a spirit among many, but Spirit itself. As Yogi Ramacharaka teaches, the word "God" has become confused, weighted with human attributes and personality. The mystics preferred "Spirit" or "Truth" to point toward the same Reality. The Absolute that transcends all relative descriptions.
The 17th century philosopher Spinoza captured it perfectly: "To define God is to deny Him." Words can only express relative things, and the Absolute cannot be confined by relative terms. And still, we try.
To explain this relationship between the Spirit and all beings, the Yogis offer a metaphor. The sun reflected in countless drops of water. The sun reflected in an ocean. That same sun appears in every tiny droplet, each containing a perfect miniature reflection. The sun exists simultaneously in millions of water drops and yet remains whole in the sky. The reflection is not the sun itself, but neither is it an illusion. Because the sun has sent forth its energy, its light, its very essence.
This is the divine paradox. The one exists in the many, while the many exist within the one. Each reflection both real and unreal. Each seemingly separate. Each inseparably connected. The sun shines on millions of drops. It creates millions of reflections. But there remains only one sun, steadfast in the sky.
While each drop contains the sun, the sun remains beyond. While the sun shines in the heavens, it dwells within the drop.
The Yogis encourage us to recognize Truth in its highest aspect. Spirit divested of the human projections we've layered upon it. That divine Reality reflected in infinite forms across the universe? That same presence dwells within you.
Spirit, God, Truth. Three terms for one Reality.
You carry this sun of life within. Your task is not to find it. It's already there. Your task is to realize its presence. To remember it when others try to diminish you. To remember it when you meet another, because behind their eyes burns the same eternal light.
