‘I am God’ says the yogi and mystic. What he means is that all of us are God in our deepest potentiality. In our secret self we are one with the Source of Creation that is the Creator Himself. The purpose of yoga is to realise this state and turn this potentiality into something real and conscious and living. Therefore it easily forgets the other complimentary truth that indeed all are God.
‘I am God’ says the ego as well. But it mistakes an unrealized potential for the actual. Therefore it is always at strife with ‘others’, reconciling only to quarrel again.
The remedy is to turn the potential into a living and conscious reality. Then the law of strife is replaced by the law of an increasing harmony and an all-embracing love.
