ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
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ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: WHAT SURRENDERING LOOKS LIKE!
PROCEDURE:
Without showing the drawing shown on the next page, ask the students to draw a horizontal line that represents the material goals and a vertical line that represents the spiritual goals that they have in their life. Then ask them to write down a few goals on each axis and ask them to point to where their “Being” would be in that drawing. Then ask them to share why they placed their “Being” at that point. After everyone has shared, draw the diagram and explain to them why the Being is placed exactly in the center by using the explanation given in the “inference” section.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: WHAT SURRENDERING LOOKS LIKE!
INFERENCE IN THE SPH'S OWN WORDS: "Let me explain what I mean by the word surrender. Then you can understand better. Think of two intersecting lines, axes. The vertical axis is spiritual life. The horizontal axis is material life. The point of intersection is your being. This is the goal you have. You have some goal in your material life and also in your spiritual life. To achieve your goal in your material life, you are continuously struggling and working. You are somewhere on the horizontal axis. To achieve your spiritual goal, you are again working intensely doing yoga, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, etc. You practice spiritual techniques. You are somewhere on the vertical axis. So when you struggle with material goals, you are on the horizontal line whereas when you struggle with spiritual goals, you are on the vertical line.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
WHAT SURRENDERING LOOKS LIKE!
INTERFERENCE
As long as you are struggling, you can struggle either in this direction or that direction. As long as you struggle in material life, you avoid spiritual life. As long as you struggle in spiritual life, you avoid material life. Listen! As long as you struggle with completion, you don't enrich. As long as you struggle with enriching, you are not complete! Both are a struggle.
Kṛṣṇa says, 'Relax from both.' You may think, 'What is this funny instruction He is giving!' You think that if you relax in both you will lose both. However, the truth is that when you relax in both, you fall into your inner consciousness, your being or your inner space. When you experience this inner space, this inner consciousness, you will suddenly realize that you can explode in all directions. You do not need to choose between horizontal and vertical lines. You can travel on both lines at the same time!"
