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Daily Yogi: A Podcast to Expand Your Perspective on Life
You Are the Keeper of the Keys
You have the power to observe without obeying.
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Vladimir Markov found the boar carcass half-eaten in the snow. Still steaming. Still warm. He was hungry, had been hunting with nothing to show for it. So he took the meat. Big mistake.
When the tiger came back and found its kill gone, it circled the empty snow where the boar had lain. Its massive head dropped low, nostrils flaring. Its breathing deepened, its pupils dilated. It recognized the scent. A human. A hunter that would become the hunted.
The tiger tracked Markov back to his cabin. It waited. It watched. It learned his routines. Then it struck with surgical precision, killing him but not eating him. The locals said Markov had been "marked by the tiger." They knew what this was. Pure revenge. No one steals food from the king of the Siberian forest.
The scales demanded balancing. This was personal. In the tiger’s mind, no higher reasoning interfered. No spiritual voice whispered restraint. The tiger had acted on pure instinct.
But you carry something the tiger does not.
"The Instinctive Mind is that part of the mental nature which we share in common with the animal world," taught Yogi Ramacharaka. "But man has the power to control and regulate these tendencies by the use of his higher mental faculties."
When someone criticizes you publicly, the tiger within wants blood. When someone cuts you off in traffic, it wants revenge. When you discover betrayal, it wants to destroy. These impulses rise like ancient fire, demanding action.
The difference between you and that Siberian predator is not the absence of these instincts. It is the power to observe them without obeying them.
You are not the tiger. You are the one watching the tiger pace its cage. You are the one acknowledging its presence without opening the door. You are the keeper of the keys. You are the master of the beast within.
