Waking Up To The Truth Is Surrender.

tatraivam sati kartāram ātmānaṁ kevalaṁ tu yaḥ paśyatyakṛtabuddhitvān na sa paśyati durmatiḥ

Those who think they, their spirit, are the doers, are ignorant and do not see things as they are.

Final Surrender Itself is Enlightenment.

lists five factors from Sāṅkhya philosophy responsible for our activities. These are the bodymind system, the operator of the body-mind system (that is the individual), the senses, different efforts causing the activities and finally the ultimate power of God. All activities, right or wrong, good or bad, are caused by these five factors. If however, the individual considers himself to be the doer, his body and mind, he is not aware.

Kṛṣṇa uses the word ātman while saying that one who perceives one's spirit or Self as the agent, the doer, or the performer, does not see and is not aware. Kṛṣṇa draws a distinction between the individual Self and the cosmic energy. He differentiates between ātman and Brahman, mānava and Deva, nara and Nārāyaṇa, self and Parāśakti.

Kṛṣṇa concludes that while philosophical discussion mentions five players in all activities, the ultimate controller is the Divine. We are immersed in our body- mind-spirit system and caught in our sensory perceptions and believe that we are the power behind all that we do. So long as we have this deluded belief, we are rooted in ignorance.

Many times the idea of dropping our responsibilities and taking up a different role is more attractive than growing in completion so that we can perform our own responsibilities well and without attachment. Be very clear, without the right cognition of completion, no role that we take up will work out for us. Instead of taking up responsibility and expanding you and your life around you, watching television, sleeping or daydreaming seems much more pleasant and easy. We would rather do that than meditate or perform pūjā or whatever is our prescribed duty.

Whatever you may understand as yourself, your body-mind-spirit system is the totality of many things. And individually each is responsible for something. In spite of this, you think that 'you' are responsible for the whole thing. That is where the trouble starts. Kṛṣṇa gives the technology for the deeper levels of surrender.

As we saw earlier, there are three levels of surrender. The first is intellectual surrender. This means you accept that the Master's intellect is sharper than your intellect; His intellect is of a higher order than yours. This is intellectual surrender. Next is emotional surrender. This is trusting that the Master's guidance on the emotional plane is more intelligent than your emotions. The third is surrendering the senses, your cognition or the root of cognition itself.

Deeper Level of Surrender — Mind or Master? The Master again and again tries to show that you are God. I keep saying, 'I am not here to prove that I am God. I am here to prove that you are God.

The Master stands for the idea that you are the infinite. He shows you various dimensions of your inner self that you have not explored or experienced. He shows you so many dimensions of your being. The Master stands for your multi- dimensional being. He tries to show you that it is possible. He shows that if it is possible for him, it is possible for you also. But as long as you believe your senses, you think that you are the body and mind.

Final Surrender Itself is Enlightenment In the inner world, the first and last tool you need is complete surrender. Only then can you wake up to the Truth. If Arjuna had trusted only his senses, he would have been at best a good warrior and king. Instead he trusted Kṛṣṇa more than his senses and became enlightened. He experienced the truth of Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa said that the crow was green, he saw a green crow. Such was his faith.

When you surrender your senses, the root cognition of yourself, you lose your identification with the body and mind. As long as you believe your senses, you think that you are the body and mind. Only when you believe the master's words more than your senses, do you realize the truth that you are divine. On one hand, your senses say you are the body and mind. On the other hand, the Master tells you that you are divine and in eternal bliss. He tells you that you are the consciousness beyond body and mind.

It is up to you to choose. If you believe the senses, you cannot believe the Master. And if you believe the Master, you cannot believe your senses. Your way of life decides whether you surrender to your senses or your Master. It is for you to decide.

Kṛṣṇa says that only when you surrender at all three levels do you have the ultimate experience. Let me tell you this, surrender itself is Enlightenment. Please do not think Enlightenment will be issued to you after surrendering. No! It is not a paycheck you receive by courier. Surrender itself is Enlightenment. At that moment, you experience the Truth.

When I say surrender, I mean wake up to the truth that you are in the ocean. When you are born, when you think you are an individual or when you become enlightened, you are always in the ocean. Just wake up! Waking up to this ultimate Truth is surrender. Surrender these small ideas about yourself and wake up to reality. As a result, surrender automatically happens in your inner space, your inner Consciousness. Otherwise you just play with the word surrender.

Do not worry, because you have nothing to surrender. By understanding that you have nothing to surrender, you have already surrendered. Whether you surrender or not, this is the truth. Whether you surrender or not, Existence takes care. Automatically life continues and you will relax. that relaxation itself is surrender.

Relax into the flow of life and wake up to the truth that you ARE something greater than your body and mind as suggested by your senses. You are led by society to think that you are something. Now wake up to the truth that you are greater than what you can imagine. You are beyond any imagination you can have of yourself. Surrendering will give you a new consciousness. You will not be the same person. One single moment of surrender will transform your whole life. You will be a new being.

Receive this truth of surrender and work on it. Suddenly you will wake up and give birth to yourself as an enlightened being. The moment you understand you belong to the ocean, that you are from it, that you are in it and that you will disappear into it, you will realize that you will never die, because you are the ocean.

As long as you identify with the bubble, you feel insecure. The instinct to survive and the instinct to possess torture you. The moment you realize that you are the ocean, the instinct to survive disappears because there is no death for you. There is nothing to fear, nothing to feel insecure about. Death creates fear as long as you think you are the bubble.

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The moment you realize that you are the ocean, there is nothing to possess because everything belongs to you. There is nothing to lose and nothing to acquire. Hence, the instinct to possess disappears. I am not asking you to legally throw away your possessions. You do not need to throw away whatever you have done for your 'I' and 'mine'. You do not need to throw away whatever you have. Just do not internalize them. Within yourself be aware and be complete that you are something greater than anything you can possibly possess.

Kṛṣṇa goes much deeper than these three levels of surrender: surrender of the intellect, surrender of the emotions and surrender of the senses. He gives Arjuna a glimpse of the greatest surrender. He gives Arjuna a glimpse of the ultimate experience itself. Kṛṣṇa already gave Arjuna the experience during Viśvarūpa darśan, the vision of His Cosmic form. Even so, Arjuna was unable to establish himself in that experience due to fear.

Kṛṣṇa is waking Arjuna up from the long slumber called saṁsāra sāgara. This can also be called unconsciousness or tamas. Kṛṣṇa gives him a good shake by giving him the ultimate experience and puts him in that state forever. I was telling you about the three levels of surrender. Kṛṣṇa puts Arjuna into that final level or highest level of surrender.

Helping the students understand ultimate surrender.

• 1. What is the deluded belief that Krishna speaks about here?
• 2. What are the three levels of surrender?
• 3. What does the Master stand for?
• 4. What happens when you surrender your senses?
• 5. What stopped Arjuna from establishing himself into the ultimate experience of surrender?
• 6. What is final surrender?

Start by engaging a brief discussion, asking the children how they understand surrender. Then, ask them to close their eyes and to bring their awareness to their third eye. Ask them to connect to THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and to surrender in whatever way they understand. Then, ask them to draw the Viśvarūpa Darśan in their own unique way.

Krishna gives Arjuna a glimpse of the greatest surrender during Viśvarūpa darśan, the vision of His Cosmic form.

Read the following story to the students: Once a disciple asked his Master, 'Why should I Surrender?' The Master asked, 'How do you know whatever you think you know about yourself?' The disciple replied, 'I know myself through my senses. 'The Master asked, 'Who do you think you are according to your senses?' The disciple said, 'As far as I know, I am the body and mind.' His Master responded, 'You are God, not just body and mind.'

The Master said, 'Only when you surrender your senses, will you realize the truth of what I am saying. The moment you trust me more than your senses, you experience that you are God. You then understand the meaning of Tat Tvam Asi (literally 'You Are That', meaning 'you are divine')

Remind the students that the Master shows you various dimensions of your inner self that you have not explored or experienced. Then ask each student to stand in a row/chain. Tell one student to stand in front of the 'first one in the row, to connect to the Master and to reveal one dimension of themselves. Then tell them to move on to the second person in the row and ask them to reveal another dimension of themselves while connecting to the Master and so on until they reach the last student in row. Ask each student to do the same. At the end, ask students to share whether they were able to cognize themselves beyond what their senses perceive, beyond body and mind.

The Master stands for your multi-dimensional being. As you believe your senses, you think that you are the body and mind.

Engage a discussion about the truth that the Master is not here to prove that He is God, but that He is here to prove that you are God.' Then ask the students to write a short essay about how they have personally experienced it in their own life, whether it is by manifesting powers, feeling inspired by Guru's words, doing something that they never thought they would be capable of doing...

The Master stands for the idea that you are the infinite. He shows you various dimensions of your inner self that you have not explored or experienced. He shows you so many dimensions of your being. The Master stands for your multi- dimensional being. He tries to show you that it is possible. He shows that if it is possible for him, it is possible for you also.