20: The final surrender
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In the inner world, the first and last tool you need is complete surrender. Only then can you wake up to the truth. You can experience the consciousness not just by surrendering the intellect and emotions, but also by surrendering the root of the intellect and emotions, that is, the senses.
The senses supply the data. When you surrender them the source of the data is surrendered. You receive all information about yourself through the senses. You respect yourself because of data you collect about yourself through the senses of others.
If somebody says, 'You are beautiful,' you make an entry in a notebook. When you are told that you are dumb, another entry is made! At the end of the day you make a survey and assess what everybody said. You see that seventy-two percent of the people say that you are intelligent; twenty percent say that you are dumb, and the rest do not know.
You decide that if seventy-two percent of the people say that you are intelligent, all of them cannot be fools. Therefore, you must be intelligent! Thus your conclusion about yourself is based on what others say about you. You continuously go around asking people to tell you something about yourself. As a result, the senses give you an idea of what you are.
When you surrender your senses, the root of your idea 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.
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. It is up to you to decide. Surrender itself is enlightenment. At the moment you experience the Truth.