You Cannot Be Lost

The Yogi teachers often used simple pictures from Nature to convey the deepest truths, and one of their most beautiful is the story of the dew-drop. The image is familiar. Water rising, gathering, falling, and returning.

The ocean lies beneath the sun. Under the sun’s gentle power, a portion of the ocean rises as vapor, invisible and free. This vapor gathers into clouds, drifting across the world, and in time returns to earth as rain or dew. Streams and rivers form, winding their way across the land, until, sooner or later, every drop finds its way home again to the vast Mother Ocean.

To the eye, the dew-drop seems separate. It rests on a leaf, trembles in the morning light, and appears small and insignificant. But the Yogi reminds us that this separateness is only an appearance. The drop is never truly cut off from the ocean. Its very existence is governed by the ocean’s attraction, drawing it steadily back, no matter how long or winding the journey may be.