1. The Book of Surrender
Introduction
What comes to your mind when you think about surrender? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? In this book we will explore many different topics related to surrender such as what is surrender, the different levels of surrender and how surrender can lead us to enlightenment. What you think and what you know about surrender will be changed after reading this book.Throughout this book there are many activities and mediation techniques for you to try for the practical experience of the knowledge that is presented in this book. At the end of this book you should have a better understanding of 'What is Surrender' and its many facets.
What is Surrender?
2 What is Surrender? What is surrender? The word surrender has a very deep meaning. If we don't understand it correctly, we will misunderstand it! We will be committing a grave mistake. We will be misunderstanding the deeper truths. When you ask someone who does not know, you will either not get an answer or you will get the wrong answer. Only those who have experienced can explain clearly. If you ask the meaning of surrender to a person who has not experienced it, he will say, 'Just give everything to God, that's all.' That is not surrender. One man came to me and asked, 'If I surrender everything to God, will everything be alright?' I replied, 'Yes, if you truly surrender everything to God, everything will be alright.' He returned after three days and told me, 'Swamiji, I have surrendered everything to God.' I was happy and asked him, 'Where are you going now?' He replied, 'To the bar.' He continued, 'Whatever I do, God is only responsible from now on.' Ramakrishna Paramahamsa suffered from cancer during his last days. He had healed many people of many diseases. Someone asked him, 'Why can't you keep your mind on your own disease for a moment and heal it?' He replied, 'I have surrendered my mind to the infinite energy. How can I take back it to keep it on my disease!' This is true surrender. The cosmic energy will take care of us. You might ask, 'Will this cosmic energy take care of all my problems if I surrender?' In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna beautifully answers or rather promises, 'Without any other thought, when a man thinks only of Me, I will take care of his gifts as well as retention or enjoying of them. For those who surrender with commitment to Me, I will take care of their income a well as their prosperity. Their problems will dissolve.' This is actually a method of fooling oneself. If he has really surrendered, he would have surrendered the drinking habit also. He would not have even been able to drink any further. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the enlightened Master from India beautifully says, 'When real surrender comes from your heart, God will guide you in every step of your life and you can never do wrong.' When surrender does not blossom from inside you and is only at the lip level, you will fool yourselves and others. Surrender will keep you thinking of Existence all the time. You will slowly lose your own identity, your own ego. In the Bhagavatam, the ancient Hindu epic, there is a verse wherein a Gopi (name given to a group of ardent female devotees of Krishna) says, 'I am not able to think of anything other than Krishna. I have surrendered my mind to Him. If I have to think of anything else, I will have to take back my mind from Him. How can I?' Commitment and maturity of the mind are needed for real surrender to happen. You need not surrender to God or any Master. You can surrender to anything. Surrender itself is a virtue and has a great power in itself. When you surrender, you are acknowledging that there is a life force greater than your ego, that's all. Actually, God is only an excuse for you to surrender. The act of surrendering is what is important. God is not the goal; surrender is the real goal. When you surrender or when you lose your ego, you are no longer a separate entity from Existence; you merge with Existence or God. You will then understand that there is no God sitting above. There is only Existence that fills everything in this universe including you! It is not important to whom you surrender; it is the thought of total surrender that has the power to change your life into a blissful one. When you surrender, you become a possessor of the inexhaustible energy that is Existence, and you handle anything that comes your way. You become strong and unshakeable, come what may. People around you will find you a pillar of strength. They will be able to feel the invisible hand of Existence working through you. Surrender is not submission. Surrender means expressing your will one hundred percent and dedicating your will to the higher will. Making your will in tune with the higher will. Submission means destroying your will, bending down. Bending your will. There's a big difference. Surrender is such a vast subject, such a great truth. To tell you honestly there is only one thing I still continue to learn, learn, and learn. That is surrender! It is the ultimate technique to merge with Existence.
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Surrender is Ultimate but not Final
There is one thing in the Cosmos that you can't say you finished learning: that is surrender. It is an unending process. As I always say, enlightenment is ultimate, but not final! It is constantly happening. Surrender is ultimate but not final. When you surrender, different qualities of the Cosmos starts expressing in you. So after some time, you will think that you are very intelligent. From that moment on, surrender stops. The expansion stops. And when you become stuck, the Cosmos will give you a strong blow again. When it gives you a blow, when there is no solution in the outer world then you look in again. Again the Cosmos is sitting there, smiling. Come Back! Welcome back! Then you will see, that you will melt. And surrender starts happening again. And the highest possible intelligence and the different qualities of the Cosmos start happening again in you. Surrender is the ultimate but not the final. And the ultimate happens again and again; in the higher and higher dimensions. Surrender and the Master People come to the Master and surrender. They experience the beautiful period of intense ecstasy and expansion. Suddenly after certain intellectual, emotional and being level expansion,their intellect starts judging the very source that they surrendered to and the expansion happened. They start judging the Master. Surrender and the Master When they start judging they become stuck with that expansion. The moment they lift that surrender; they hold the life. They remove the surrender; then the expansion and growth stops. They are just stuck. It's almost like a having a bridge that can be lifted to the other shore. Surrender and the Master First they make a bridge, which is what surrender is. Then from the master's side so much of intelligence, energy, compassion, expansion and everything is sent to the disciple's side. When the disciple receives too much, suddenly his ego starts judging the other side: the Master's side. The moment you judge, the bridge of surrender is lifted. No more transportation is possible. No more receiving gifts is possible. You are stuck. Surrender and the Master But one nice thing with life is that it forgives you. It waits for you, even though you are stuck. Whenever suffering happens in your life, understand you are stuck. Whatever suffering is given to you is just a reminder. Suffering comes, and you try to solve it in all possible ways in the outer world, because the logic with which you judge the Master is so strong, so arrogant. Surrender and the Master Your logic tries to find its own solutions, without putting the bridge again back. It just wants to say, 'No! I KNOW! I'll handle it. I'll do it'. But the Cosmos is so compassionate, that it gives such a strong suffering that can never be answered or solved by the outer solutions. Surrender and the Master Then there is no other way. Then with a lot of reluctance, slowly you lower the bridge again. The other side is just sitting with a smile and waiting for your bridge to land, and He says, 'Okay let's start the work again. Where did we leave off? Seventh lesson?
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 Start the eighth!' And again the energy, the expansion and the ecstasy start to flow towards you, and the next level of happening starts happening. Unfortunately, from the disciple's side, it takes a few janmas, a few births, to lower the bridge. Fortunate are those who are able to put the bridge back again within a few days. Intelligent are those who can understand the arrogant and cunning games of the mind, and who put the bridge back again and restart, refresh and reconnect with the Master, reconnect with the Cosmos, so that the flow of intelligence, expansion, and ecstasy becomes alive again. I tell you - fortunate are those who come back, put the bridge back again quickly, and restart the process. Unfortunate are those who may need to wait for births and births and births. And most unfortunate are those who wait for births, and when they put the bridge back again, the Master will not be sitting there with the body. He will be without the body. He will be in the form of the formlessness - the Cosmos. Then the whole work becomes too difficult. It is like trying to work with deities, without having a physical master. It is possible, but it needs so much of intensity; it takes so much of time, it needs so much of tapas, it needs so much effort from your side. So naturally the process is delayed. Time gets wasted. But people are stuck in the same cycle, the same rut, again and again and again. I tell you, surrender is the one thing even an incarnation goes on learning. There is no end to learning surrender. Nobody can say, 'I have surrendered!' No! You can only say, 'I am surrendering.' Because every moment your logic grows, your inner space expands, and the possibility of ego and surrender is again presented in front of you - and again and again and again, you have to choose surrender. Whenever you choose surrender, again a new logic is gifted to you. When you look at life with that logic, again the choice is given: two roads - surrender or ego. Again you have to pick up surrender. So, every moment, again and again, you are given the choice. That is why I tell you - surrender is the one thing you can never say you finished learning, or you are done with. It has to be a continuous happening. There is the one lesson no Master can say I have learnt it, I am here to teach. No! I have learnt the higher parts of it so I can share whatever I have learnt with you. So it's a constant learning process. It is the ultimate happening that nobody can say I learnt it. Whenever you have learnt a process, you have become Master of that process. Surrender is the only process; nobody can become the Master of it. Only the process can continue to be the Master of it. You will be continuously learning, learning, and learning. Any process you have learnt it, you have become bigger, more than that process. But surrender is a process which you can't become Master of or which you can't say you learnt it! It is learning, learning, and learning. Only in surrender, the process is the master. Nobody else can be the Master. Even the Cosmos is lower than surrender. Because even the Cosmos continues to expand, expand, and expand because it has surrendered to itself; its very core - Life! That is why constant expansion is happening. Even in the Cosmos,when the Cosmos judges the happening, the
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 expansion of life, the surrender bridge is lifted. This causes the Cosmos to start shrinking. The expansion will stop happening. That is what we call pralaya; demolition or destruction. Then again, even the Cosmos learns the lesson:'Oh! I missed it, let's put the bridge back'. When the bridge is put back, with the life source, again the LIFE starts happening. Expansion happens. I tell you nothing, nothing, and nothing can say 'I have learnt surrender'. Because it is a happening. It is a happening. It is a constant happening. So let us all learn surrender and radiate enlightenment. Activity Below is a powerful meditation to surrender with movement: ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE This technique uses external movement for internal surrender. Whenever you are in a moving vehicle, or a flight or in a car and when you are not driving, you can try this technique. ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE When we create a movement ourselves, it is easy to direct it. We are in control. Whether we are walking, running, dancing, the direction of movement is in our hands. We can handle it. But when a current of movement that you cannot control is carrying you, you will observe that your entire body resists the movement. ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE Actually, your body enjoys being in a state of inertia. Once a movement is set up in the body, it likes the same speed and direction to be maintained. In a moving vehicle, like a train or a car, your body continuously resists the natural swinging movement. We always try to hold onto something so that we don't get hurt. ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE You don't like uncertainty. That is why even a small jolt in a moving vehicle can upset you so much - because for that one moment, you are not in control! DURATION: Not applicable
Surrender and its Three Levels
Surrender and its Three levels In the real surrender, you donaTMt exclude anything, you include everything. You just experience the WHOLE. Surrender involves dropping fantasies and surrendering to reality. The true reality, the only truth, is that we are part of the collective consciousness. When we have this awareness, there is no room for the individual a IaTM and a mineaTM to rule our actions. Three levels of surrender exist. One is intellectual surrender; means trusting the masteraTMs intellect is much sharper and much more than your intellect. Next, emotional surrender; surrendering the emotions, trusting the masteraTMs emotions or the way in which He guides is much more intelligent and best than your emotions. Third, surrendering the very senses, the very cognition that happens inside you. Surrender the Intellect Surrendering the intellect is very easy, because it continuously tortures you. After some years, you have suffered enough with the intellect; you somehow wanted to get rid of it. You just surrender. Surrendering the intellect is very, very easy. Just if you see somebody who is more intelligent and clearer than your thinking system you just surrender. For example: if you go to a consultant naturally you surrender intellectually. You surrender to his ideas. If you go to a lawyer, you surrender legally. You know in that field he is sharper than you. So you surrender. Intellectual surrender is easy. Same way, if you see somebody who has more knowledge in the spiritual field, intellectually. Immediately your intellect surrenders. That's not a big thing. Surrendering intellectually happens very easily. Moreover you just want to get rid of it. You are finding somebody. You are finding some dustbin where you can dump your intellect. So when you find somebody, you just relax from it. Your ego must be ripe before it can fall. The more stuff you pack into your thick skull, the more bloated it becomes. When someone appears on the scene and proves that intellectual knowledge is a pile of garbage, a person with a truly ripe intellectual ego understands and accepts the truth. When this happens such a person surrenders his intellect to the Master who shows him the way. Only those with half-baked knowledge, who pretend to have intellectual status, have a problem in understanding such a truth. Many intellectual seekers and spiritual shoppers come to me with loads of questions. After spending time with me, most of them tell me, with great surprise, that they no longer have questions. I don't take the trouble to answer their questions. All I do is add more words to them. They struggle with the new words, and ultimately find the right answers themselves! When I do answer I answer the questioner. I look into his being and provide the solution. Surrender the Emotion Emotional surrender happens when you feel deeply connected to the Master. When you start to experience one or two things: a little meditation, a little bit of understanding, etc., naturally the emotional surrender starts happening. You start respecting His emotions much more than your emotions. Master's emotions means whatever He tries to guide you, whatever way He wants you to live. You start giving importance to that. More than what you think as life. Slowly, slowly He becomes the centre of your life. Almost like you start respecting Him more than all the other emotional attachments. The priority is slowly changing. You start thinking in your emotions, in your emotional level. Master comes as a number one priority. This is what I call emotional surrender. In the emotional level you feel connected. People ask how they will remember me when they go away from the ashram. I tell them that if I am their Master they will have trouble forgetting me! The thought of the Master will melt your heart. You will become emotional. You do not need to be in the Master's physical presence. The mere thought is enough. Tears will flow from your eyes. Ramakrishna, a great enlightened being from India, says, 'Know this for sure: When the mere thought of your istadevata (favorite deity) or your Master reduces you to tears, you are in your final janma, your final birth.' What an enlightened Master says is always true. So powerful is this surrender that it can liberate you, enlighten you. This is the power of devotion, bhakti. All Masters say that this is the easiest way to reach them. They say, 'Just be devoted to Me and Me alone, and I shall save you.' 9 Activity Below is a powerful meditation technique. ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE This technique is an instant way to become aware when you are suddenly caught in some powerful emotion like anger or desire. Usually, we feel that some object causes all our emotions. We think that it comes from outside. But, the truth is that these emotions come from you. You are the source of all your emotions. The object is just a means for the emotion to express itself. The origin is you. If the emotion is bad for your consciousness, you will be freed of it by bringing awareness. If it is good for you, it will deepen through awareness. And ultimately you learn how to surrender your emotions to the Master. DURATION: Not applicable INSTRUCTIONS At the moment when the emotion rises inside you, become intensely aware. When you become aware, you arrest the emotion. You don't allow it to flow out of you in the form or words or actions. Now, look within for the real source of the emotion. Forget the person or the situation that caused it. Just go to the source of the energy. Just see from where the emotion is rising. If you are experiencing anger, go to the source of the anger. Just feel the irritation in the body. Feel the disturbance in the mind. You will see, you are already carrying the seed of anger inside you. You are carrying enough anger-energy inside! The other person just brought it out, that's all. When you understand this deeply, suddenly your focus shifts from the other to yourself, from the seen to the seer. When you realize yourself as the source of all your emotions, not only will you stop blaming others, but you will also experience a deep relaxation. You will become more flowing in your joy, and more centered in your pain. 10 Surrender the Senses The deeper level of surrender is the surrender of the senses. This means you surrender your senses and will listen to what the Master says. One disciple asks the Vedic Rishi,'Why should I surrender? What is the need?' The Master answers,'as far as you understand as you, how do you know you?' He says 'through my senses'. 'According to your senses, who are you?' I am this body and mind!' Master says,'according to your senses you are body and mind. But according to me you are God. Only when you surrender your senses. Only when your senses start listening to what I say you will see the truth of what I am explaining. According to you, according to your senses you are body and mind. But according to me you are God. When you surrender your senses, when you believe me more than your senses, you will experience you are God!' He says the moment you believe me more than your senses, you will understand the meaning of Tat Tvam Asi! Master again and again represents the ideal that You are God! Please understand, I am again telling you. I am not here to prove I am God, I am here to prove You are God. Again and again He stands for the ideal aYou are Infinite.a There are so many dimensions in your being, which you have not yet explored, which you have not yet experienced. Again and again he is showing so many dimensions of your being to yourself! Master stands for your multidimensional being. He again and again shows, it's possible for you. When it's possible for me, why not for you? But as long as you believe your senses, you can be sure you are body or mind. Only when you trust the Master more than your senses, you will realize a Master's words are true, more than your senses. Then you will experience the truth of the Master's words. Then when Master says, you are God. Then suddenly you will realize yes! Its truth. All these days my body and mind; my senses were telling me I am the body and the mind.
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As long as you believe your senses, you will believe only their ideas. The moment you start believing the Master, more than your senses, you will realize the truth which Master explained. Two people are speaking from two stages. One side your body is saying You are the body, you are the mind. On the other side, the Master is saying You are God! You are divine. You have so many dimensions of your being. Enjoy everything! Experience everything! If you are sitting there and listening, you cannot listen to this. Only when you believe this, the words of the Master more than the words of the senses, you will be able to experience the truth that you are God. You are the ultimate! You are both the material and spiritual; both together and something more. Let me tell you a small incident from Krishna's life. After the Gita, Krishna and Arjuna are going somewhere. Maybe for a picnic, an outing. Suddenly Krishna says, 'Arjuna see those white crows!' Arjuna says, 'Yes, yes, beautiful, white crows'. After two minutes Krishna says, 'No, no, no, they are black crows only!' Arjuna says, 'Yes, yes, Krishna, they are black crows only'. Suddenly Krishna asks, 'Fool! What happened to you? When I 
Surrender is Falling in Tune
Surrender is falling in Tune The word, surrender needs to be translated. It is misunderstood in the West, meaning to become a slave. No! Surrender can be translated, as rising to that frequency, as falling in tune or feeling-connection. Please understand, when you start feeling connected, falling in tune, you will attract that vibration to your vibration. I have really seen it, in my own life. When a devotee brings something with a lot of love it will be a very small thing. Somehow even I cannot resist myself. I will just pick it up and put it in my mouth whether it is a small sweet or a piece of cloth. I will just take it and put it on my body. It will be on my body continuously for many days. Surrender is nothing but devotion that becomes a part of your bio-memory. Stabilized devotion is surrender. Devotion means where you the person or the object or the space to which you are devoted both exist. But in surrender you say, let you exist, that's enough. Nothing else is required. I am so happy to dissolve in you. Just to be lost in the sweetness which happens in my mouth when I remember you. I am ready to lose myself in that sweetness, in that joy, in that taste. During my wandering days, I was resting in the afternoon under a tree with my head on a small stone that had turmeric and some worship items. But I did not think that the stone would be worshipped by somebody as God. In the villages in India, every stone, every tree is worshipped. The ability to worship everything whether it is a stone or a tree is not a joke, understand! The ability to bow down to everything; the ability to surrender to everything; the ability to trust everything is one of the greatest gifts from the Indian civilization. There is a beautiful Zen story. There was a great Master. His disciple (Suzuki) was also an enlightened master. When Suzuki's Master passed away, he started crying, weeping, and rolling on the ground. All the other disciples came and asked him, 'what is this? An enlightened being, how can you cry? How can you weep?' Then Suzuki says, 'if an enlightened person cannot cry, get lost! I am not interested in your enlightenment. I can't be so insensitive to this situation. I am crying because I'll miss His physical presence. He can never leave me or I can never leave Him, because He became me and I became Him. That is different. But physically I will miss Him. I will miss the graceful actions of Him and the beautiful conscious play happening around Him. I will miss Him. That's why'. Then another disciple asked,'then what about the teaching you are giving all these years. Accept what is happening. Accept what is happening. Tathata Thatha! What happened to that teaching? Have you taught this to us without you experiencing it?' Please understand, a very beautiful truth. Just understanding this can give you a very strong click. Suzuki gives a very beautifully explanation. There are two levels of acceptance. First accepting whatever is outside, the situation. Accepting the situation. Surrendering to this moment. Surrendering to thatada; what is. Surrendering to the now happens, it does not mean you will be insensitive. When you surrender to this moment. That is when the Master is dead, he is no more, it is not that you will be insensitive. It can create strong emotions in you. Accepting that also. Second accepting whatever is internal, inner level. Usually what we do, we try to accept the situation in the outer world then immediately we have a scale. If I accept I should be behaving like this in the inner world. You don't have acceptance in the inner world. You have a scale, if I accept this situation, I should be peaceful, collective, calm, and restful. You have a scale about the inner world. You have accepted the outer world. Means you are very moral; conscience based, but not consciousness-based. There is a big difference between just accepting the outer world happening and accepting the inner world happenings. Here Suzuki is throwing a new light on Thathada; acceptance. Let us surrender everything. He is not even bothered about God. He is bothered about surrendering; that quality. He says you can use God as a tool to surrender that is all, as an object to surrender. That is all. He takes complete responsibility. Surrendering with responsibility is enlightenment. Responsible surrender is enlightenment. I have seen people surrendering or claiming that they have surrendered. Oh God! Even if you are caught by your enemies you will not be tortured that much by these pseudo-surrendering people. They will claim that they
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Immense trust leads to surrender. Surrender is simplicity of the heart. It is the knowing that you do not have to decide about the Truth, that you just have to go by it. When you awaken to the powerful presence of the Truth, surrender happens. If you observe your pet dog, you will find that even if you cheat him once in a while, he will come back to you with utmost trust. His trust is absolute and innocent. The trust comes with no reason. He has no questions, so no answers need to be given. He sees no utility in anything. He just exists like an open book, that's all. It is only innocence that is capable of taking the leap into trust and surrender. Knowledge somehow sees utility in everything. It looks for reason in everything. Surrender and reason are mutually exclusive. Surrender is to do with trust. Surrender is possible only out of innocence, because out of innocence arises trust. With trust arises acceptance as well. Acceptance does not mean compromising to life, situations and persons. No. It means welcoming life and all its forms as a wonderful gift from Existence. Each person or situation is a fresh happening. Accepting it at a deep level is surrender. People and situations have to be handled with the required tact. But the spontaneous and deep acceptance of the moment is surrender. Acceptance is the deep humility towards the profound Existence that takes care of everything including you. It is again saying 'yes' to Existence. When you say yes, you are acknowledging the presence of the all-pervading life force that is conducting this universe. That is surrender. Out of surrender arises deep relaxation. Out of surrender arises a fresh intelligence that knows on a different plane. On this plane, there is no worry of result, there is only action driven by pure energy. And energy is intelligence. Trust does not mean inaction. It means continuing to be in action with intelligence instead of intellect. It is having trust in thought and intelligence in action. Trust is an attitude. It is not a substitute for appropriate action. The spirit of trust is the essence of the very life. It leads to innocence, surrender, relaxation, and bliss. and intelligence in action. Trust is an attitude. It is not a substitute for appropriate action. The spirit of trust is the essence of the very life. It leads to innocence, surrender, relaxation, and bliss. If it is followed out of complete understanding, there is nothing to lose in its path. Until then, you are still on the path to trust. All great enlightened beings are eternally blissful because they have surrendered their very body to Existence with trust. Existence flows through them like air flowing through hollow bamboo creating music. That is why they are beautiful. When existence flows through, the expression is divine. Enlightened master's grace is the grace of the whole of Existence. They are the only utterly innocent beings on planet earth. If it is followed out of complete understanding, there is nothing to lose in its path. Until then, you are still on the path to trust. All great enlightened beings are eternally blissful because they have surrendered their very body to Existence with trust. Existence flows through them like air flowing through hollow bamboo creating music. That is why they are beautiful. When existence flows through, the expression is divine. Enlightened master's grace is the grace of the whole of Existence. They are the only utterly innocent beings on planet earth. Surrender is allowing Existence to happen through you. Enlightened beings enjoy the play of Existence through them. They enjoy it with the utter innocence and wave of a child. That is why they are so delightful to watch. Surrender is allowing Existence to happen through you. Enlightened beings enjoy the play of Existence through them. They enjoy it with the utter innocence and wave of a child. That is why they are so delightful to watch. One more thing: when you are trusting and surrendering, it becomes difficult to cheat you. Innocent trust always protects from deceit. It radiates that kind of energy. When trust happens with the utmost understanding, nothing can be lost. When you trust, all material possessions will seem like they belong to Existence. The very attitude of possessing drops. That relaxes the mind. That is the space for relaxing. Then, you can simply do, leaving the result to Existence. One more thing: when you are trusting and surrendering, it becomes difficult to cheat you. Innocent trust always protects from deceit. It radiates that kind of energy. When trust happens with the utmost understanding, nothing can be lost. When you trust, all material possessions will seem like they belong to Existence. The very attitude of possessing drops. That relaxes the mind. That is the space for relaxing. Then, you can simply do, leaving the result to Existence. Surrender is Death of Mind Surrender is Death of Mind When you come to the present moment you are open and innocent because there is no mind in the present. For the mind to exist there has to be movement towards the past or the future. In the present moment, there is no past or future. It is just there, that's all. When you come to the present moment you are open and innocent because there is no mind in the present. For the mind to exist there has to be movement towards the past or the future. In the present moment, there is no past or future. It is just there, that's all. To be trusting and surrendering is like losing the 'I' and 'mine'. Ego starts with 'mine' and then moves to 'I'. Even before the identity of 'I' sets in, the 'mine' comes into play. If you notice a small child, even before the 'I' takes root in him, he will fight for 'mine'. Just try pulling a toy from his hand. He will resist! It is his, you cannot take it away. Even before he talks 'I', he will talk 'mine'. Surrender is nothing but merging with Existence, with no identity of 'I' and 'mine'. To be trusting and surrendering is like losing the 'I' and 'mine'. Ego starts with 'mine' and then moves to 'I'. Even before the identity of 'I' sets in, the 'mine' comes into play. If you notice a small child, even before the 'I' takes root in him, he will fight for 'mine'. Just try pulling a toy from his hand. He will resist! It is his, you cannot take it away. Even before he talks 'I', he will talk 'mine'. Surrender is nothing but merging with Existence, with no identity of 'I' and 'mine'. Surrender is death of the mind, death of ego. Ego is nothing but feeling yourself to be separate entity from Existence. This feeling happens as a result of a strong 'I' and 'mine'. The mind is a direct conflict to the being. The being always concurs with Existence. Surrender is death of the mind, death of ego. Ego is nothing but feeling yourself to be separate entity from Existence. This feeling happens as a result of a strong 'I' and 'mine'. The mind is a direct conflict to the being. The being always concurs with Existence. The mind invariably comes in the way. The being knows. The mind doubts. The being always says yes. The mind mostly says no. The being is innocent but the mind is cunning. Saying yes is like death for the mind. So it continues to say no. With persuasion it says yes. If left to itself, it says no. The mind invariably comes in the way. The being knows. The mind doubts. The being always says yes. The mind mostly says no. The being is innocent but the mind is cunning. Saying yes is like death for the mind. So it continues to say no. With persuasion it says yes. If left to itself, it says no. Now you will ask, 'How to silence the mind?' You cannot silence the mind through the mind. It is like expecting the suspect to surrender! It will never happen. You just need to understand that the mind is not a reality. It is just a myth. You are holding on to something unreal and trying to silence it. Now you will ask, 'How to silence the mind?' You cannot silence the mind through the mind. It is like expecting the suspect to surrender! It will never happen. You just need to understand that the mind is not a reality. It is just a myth. You are holding on to something unreal and trying to silence it. If you bring awareness to this process that is going on within you, you will be able to see where the mind is saying no. Then you will be able to put it to rest so that the yes of the being is heard. If you bring awareness to this process that is going on within you, you will be able to see where the mind is saying no. Then you will be able to put it to rest so that the yes of the being is heard.
Surrender is Falling in Tune 3
Awareness is the key to anything. Just bring in awareness. The resistance of the mind will then drop. You will then relax into the being. Innocence starts expressing from there. Unless innocence happens intimacy cannot happen. Intimacy is the language of Existence. The mind doesnaTMt know intimacy. Only the being knows it. With intimacy there is openness and you can say and do everything that you feel genuinely and earnestly about. There will be authenticity in your words and actions. You will radiate energy that spurs the others around you to be innocent and open. Then the real beauty of Existence can be experienced. Activity Below is a powerful meditation technique. ABOUT THIS TECHNIQUE When you tighten and loosen your muscles one by one, the sudden release of tension results in deep relaxation, surrendering, and centering of energies. This technique has to be practiced in a standing position. DURATION: 20 minutes INSTRUCTIONS Step 1: Close your eyes and start tightening and relaxing your limbs one by one. Breathe in when you are tightening the limb, and breathe out as you relax. Start at the feet and move up. Clench your feet for about a minute, and then relax them. Clench and relax your calf muscle, your knees, and your thighs. Remember to relax each part before tightening the next. At any point of time, there should be tension only in one part of your body. Continue upwards, pulling your stomach in, chest, shoulders and hands. Continue one by one, tightening and relaxing. Spread your fingers, then clench them into a tight fist and relax them after a minute. Tighten your neck, jaw and facial muscles. After a minute, gently relax your whole body. This process frees all the muscles in your body. Step 2: Continue in a standing position, imagine that you are inhaling and exhaling with every part of your body. Surrender and Knowledge WIsdom and truth are about what we do not know. Knowledge of the mind, which we take so much pride in, functions like blinders, that we wear to shut out the truth of Existence. The mind is not the scale of measure of Existence. What we are has nothing to do with our thoughts. If our thoughts alone could circumscribe what we are, we would be nothing more than a biomechanical machine. Animals have greater innate intelligence than humans. Animals do not clutter their minds with fantasies like humans do. They simply flow with nature. A lion or tiger hunts for food when it is hungry. It eats when it must and sleeps when it is tired. No wild animal stores food, except in rare cases when dictated by Nature. No animal in the wild becomes obese. Humans think. That is the problem. Our great sages say, 'drop your mind and you will be aware. You will realize your true potential as a human.' Understand, we are spiritual beings in human form and not human beings striving to be spiritual. Our intelligence is unlimited. But our intellect is limited. Knowledge is of three kinds. The first and the least relevant type is acquired through the mind and intellect. Scientific knowledge such as physics, math, medicine, etc. falls into this category. We believe this knowledge enhances the quality of our lives. The more we acquire knowledge belonging to this first category, the more disturbed we become. The second type of knowledge cannot be taught in Clearly visualize yourself breathing through your feet, legs, stomach, hands, face, and arms. Visualize your whole body breathing, not only your nose. Visualize life energy flooding your body. This will put you in a deep space of silence and surrender.