The podcast, now a mainstay of app subscribers, has fast risen to widespread popularity as a medium of communication and of commentary on topics of interest. Anyone can start one, which is good for freedom of speech, although not necessarily for its content. Checks and balances not required. For the influence-seeker across the board, from expert to hack, the podcast is a carrier of news and sway, whether of shadow or light.
What occurred to me, given the state of the world’s need of correctives, is that what’s really needed is a channel of universal access and irresistible substance that would appeal to an audience of billions: an actual Godcast. Not with someone self-anointed to speak for the Omnipresent, but with the One and Only right there at the mic, waking us up to better ways of being.
That thought was followed a moment later with realizing that the world in all of its madness is that Godcast+ already, just with a different approach to waking us up. It’s a daily show entitled “Look, Listen, Learn,” using dire situations to drive home the point that ambitions laced with fear, hate, vengeance and greed are insanely counterproductive.
Alas, what is missing is the audience of billions tuning in with careful attention to what happens when that point is ignored. But in truth even a relative few with God-conscious aspirations would do much to turn the tide, for in them is the dharma needed.
Isn’t that who we were born to be, devotees of dharma’s way, harbingers of a changing tide? To turn that tide is not to engage in us vs. them harangues, but to model the principles of higher attunement. Paramhansa Yogananda, the avatar of this pivotal age, has blessed us with every tool and technique to do precisely that. And we also have each other to support our quest, joyfully instead of fearfully going forth.
Master did not promise us global victories. He even warned of harder times to come. But he did promise inner peace if we would simply follow his lead, and that we would thereby magnetize others to join us in making a difference.
Ours is not a glamorous, political or self-aggrandizing path. Quite the opposite. It is purposely humble. Where others compete, we practice cooperation. Where others strive for power, we strive to serve the divine potential in all. Ours is the way of light and of helping to spread it.
None of us is perfect in this. We, too, have more to learn, embody and practice. But I like to think of each of us as pod casting our soul’s radiance upon the challenges we meet, seeing their shadows recede with each illumination. Though perhaps without us noticing, this changes the world too.