21 Surrender to the Ultimate truth🔗

When I say surrender, I mean wake up to the truth that you are the ocean. When you are born, when you think you are an individual, or when you become enlightened, you are always the ocean. Waking up to this ultimate Truth is surrender.

Surrender these small ideas about yourself and wake up to reality. Otherwise you just play with the word surrender. We use inflated words when we define ourselves. We do not realize that we are beyond these descriptions.

One day a follower used exaggerated words about himself in front of me. After he left I told my disciple that he seemed to be suffering from an inferiority complex. I said, any estimation you have of yourself, except that you are God, is an underestimation!

Some fish swim along with the current. Others swim against the current. Whether they go with or against the current, all fish are in the water. Whether you flow with Existence or fight it, you are one with it. Whether or not you have realized you are Divine. You are Divine. There is no choice in this.

You can make only one choice, realize and enjoy or continue to struggle and suffer, that's all! You may try to create stronger fences around yourself or collect more bubbles around you, but can you ask the wave not to come? Whatever you may do the whole thing is only a drama of a few seconds.

The next problem is what to do if you cannot surrender. Some people tell me, 'Swamiji, I am unable to surrender. What can I do?' Do not worry because you have nothing to surrender. By understanding that you have nothing to surrender, you have already surrendered. Just relax.

Whether you surrender or not, Existence will take 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 that 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. Surrendering will give you a new consciousness. You will be a new being. When you receive this concept of surrender and work on it, you will wake up and give birth to yourself as an enlightened being. The instinct to survive and the instinct to possess torture you.

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. The moment you realize that you are the ocean there is nothing to possess, because everything belongs to you. 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. Just do not internalize them. Within yourself be aware that you are something greater than anything you can possibly possess.

When you realize that at any moment anything can be taken away from you, you do not take them for granted. When you realize that you are the ocean and that they are also of the same ocean, you value them more. When you realize this, you are transformed at the level of body, mind, and consciousness. When consciousness is transformed, you give birth to a new you.

Below is a powerful meditation technique.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, you are a wave in the ocean that is the cosmos. If you internalize this concept, then your actions become a spontaneous part of the rising and falling waves, part of the cosmic leela, divine play. Then you don't feel you are separate, you are just playing the role that is meant for you. Naturally, your actions become pure and spontaneous, without the play of your emotions in them.

DURATION: 21 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Close your eyes and sit in a relaxed way. Feel your whole being as a wave in the cosmic ocean. You always experience yourself as solid. You experience your boundary so strongly. Now, experience yourself as fluid, as a flowing energy. You are just a wave in a vast ocean. Meditate on this and allow this feeling to go deep inside you.

Step 2: Now, become aware of the breath flowing in and out of your body. Start feeling your breathing as a rising of a wave. Your breathing is just a wave in the ocean of energy, the ocean of life. While breathing, feel as if the ocean is breathing in you. The ocean is entering into you and then going out again. With every breath coming in, feel a wave rising, and with every breath going out, feel a wave dying.

This is the truth!

With every breath, you are living and dying. But when the wave is rising, when it reaches the peak, and when it subsides and returns to the ocean – at all times, the wave is nothing but the ocean. At all times, you are nothing but the play of the universal consciousness!

When you enter intensely into this understanding, it can create lasting peace and centeredness inside you.

Surrender to the Master

We must understand two things. The first is about listening to one's mind and the second is about not listening to the Master. Many people have an issue about accepting another human as superior, as someone to whom they should defer, let alone surrender. They think that prostrating at another person's feet is disrespecting themselves and quite uncivilized.

When I heal someone, if the pain is in the leg, I normally bend down and touch the person's feet. Once someone asked me, ‘Swamiji, how can you touch someone’s feet? You are lowering yourself.’

I said, ‘When I touch someone’s feet, I am raising them to my level. When you fall at my feet, you surrender your ego!’ When you fall at my feet, you surrender your ego!’

When you fall at someone’s feet, you surrender your ego. It is food for you. It does not matter to whom you surrender. Whether you surrender to a stone or a human being, surrendering your ego raises you spiritually. That is the absolute Truth. You do not need to discriminate, search, filter and go through a lot of effort and time to surrender to an enlightened Master.

Someone asked me, ‘What do you mean by surrender?’ Surrender is when you find someone whom you can unconditionally love, and you have no problem if it is obvious that you are in love with that person. Your identity then merges with that person.

I tell them, ‘Think of the person whom you would like to be with if God told you that the entire Earth is about to be destroyed. Only you and one other person will survive and you can choose that person. Who will that person be? That person is the one you have surrendered to!’

Vedic chants end with the word namah. What does this mean? It means ‘I surrender to You.’ Each time you utter a Vedic prayer, you say, ‘I surrender to You, my Lord.’ Is there another system of

listen to Me, I shall protect you, whatever may happen. If you do not, and you follow your mind, you shall perish.

Surrender is nothing but learning the art of being alive without making decisions. In course of time you can take up this as a project. Take it up for three months. I learned the art of being alive without making decisions. You will see, all the insecurity, all the greed, all the fear, all the arrogance, all the confusion, the non-committal lifestyle

Master is a beautiful machinery with which you can just nicely work and tune yourself and learn the art of being alive without making decision; that’s all; nothing else.I am like a mold. You can come and just push yourself and make yourself as a jeevanmukta, an enlightened being, then do what you want.