A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there he is like butter on water, and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity. To fulfill one's earthly responsibilities is indeed the higher path, provided the yogi, maintaining a mental involvement with egotistical desires, plays his part as a willing instrument of God.
Yogananda
Hmm! Butter on water? A willing instrument of God? I would like to be like that...floating on top of undisciplined humanity without getting lost in it, being a temporary part of it but not being consumed by it.
Of course this statement form Yogananda's An Autobiography of a Yogi echoes the wisdom of Patanjali and of Christ. We are to be in the world but not of it...to keep our head in work and our heart in God.
We are here to fulfill our earthly responsibilities while remembering who we are and where we come from. That is pretty cool. We are to be a part of this world while we remember that the world is not a part of us. Hmm!
All is well in my world
Parmhansa Yogananda (2015 reprint of the 1946 first edition) Autobiography of a Yogi. Kindle Edition
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