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The living God
The light is twofold: the external sun and the internal light within all. This inner light is constant, unlike the rising and setting sun. The science of the material world is great, yet different from the science of yoga. A story illustrates this: a professor of science questions a meditating yogi about God, seeing nothing. After a flower falls on the yogi, the professor dreams the yogi becomes his guru, showing spiritual realization surpasses intellectual knowledge. Many claim one external God, yet in Sanātana Dharma, the divine is lived and expressed through countless devotional songs and realizations. You ask if I have seen God. I have looked from airplanes and never seen a form. Yet God is within the heart. When that life force departs, the body dies. Therefore, each being is a living God, like a drop containing the whole ocean or a spark holding the full fire's power. All living creatures possess this same life. Consuming other lives creates a karmic debt, as one must repay by becoming that which one has eaten. The truth is to recognize the living God within and cease causing harm.
"Have you ever seen God? I have never seen a God."
"God is within your heart. You are God. I am God."
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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4
