Know when Surrender has Happened
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If a person can surrender, then whatsoever happens he will be able to handle it. Even if the whole world falls apart, he will remain centered in himself, because he has surrendered everything. There is nothing, no investment in the inner world or the outer world to lose.
When I say outer world, I mean the attachment to the outer world things. You always fear losing outer world things only because of your attachments to them. When you don't have the attachment, you are not disturbed when you lose anything in the outer world.
To know when surrender has happened is when you become blind with love. You will not know in which direction the Master is taking you, yet you will trust the He will lead you down the path. This is because the Master is the path for you, nothing more. You don't have an agenda for yourself.
The Master becomes your agenda. When this happens, He will ensure that you do not move off the path and stray. With me, I never make rules. I only give guidelines. I can tell you that something would be good for you so that you can explode in 360 degrees. The decision is yours. In the end you must decide.
Surrendering is your choice. I am not going to sit here and force you to surrender. But I can say that something will be good for you. I can say that you will experience a tremendous freedom when you let go the weight of your mind's emotions.
But in the end, it is your choice. You can help yourself grow, or you can simply listen to your inner chatter and go back to the same life that you were living. It is you who has come to me, and it is your own decision that makes you stay here.
People sometimes approach me and say they think they have surrendered but that they are not sure. Surrender is the ultimate certainty. It is the clearest clarity. You have really surrendered when you don't even have the idea of surrender left in you, because if you have surrendered everything, then even this very idea has left you. So only when you feel nothing but love and openness while sitting in front of the Master, have you surrendered.
Be clear: if the thought comes, 'I feel a lot of love towards the Master right now; I think I have surrendered,' be sure that you have not surrendered at all! If this is the case, then it is only your mind that is playing with you. Your mind is just telling itself that it has surrendered! But surrender happens only when the mind itself is surrendered!
You surrender must be total. You cannot simply think you have surrendered. If there is a doubt, you have still not surrendered. It is yet to come. But if you have a deep seeking inside, it will happen. There is no technique which you can practice to simply make surrender happen. It will happen when the time is right. You cannot create it. You can only stop the stopping that is preventing it from happening. For example, you cannot create love. It happens when it has to happen.
Surrendering to the Master means being fully relaxed in your being. Whatever I tell you to do, even if it is the most illogical thing, you will simply do in a relaxed way. Even if I tell you to walk on fire, you will simply do it with a smile on your face.
So understand it is surrender that gives you the power to do things which you never imagined! The moment you have understood surrender, everything drops from you. And you live in a state of bliss.
There is Nothing to Surrender Except the 'I' and 'Mine'.
Surrender Brings the Ultimate Freedom - Enlightenment.

His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is recognized today as a clear, legitimate, apo-litical voice of Sanatana Hindu Dharma, and revered as a living incarnation of super-consciousness by millions worldwide. He is a Mahamandaleshwar (spiritual head) of Mahanirvani Peeth, the world's most ancient apex body of Hinduism. He is the most watched spiritual teacher on YouTube.com with over 19 million views, and the author of more than 300 books published in over 20 languages. His lectures are watched live every day on http://www.nithyananda.tv, as well as on multiple international televi-sion channels and via video conferencing.
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