26: Surrendering and
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Practicing the Presence
Whatever you experience as God, you will experience with me.
Some will have thirty percent fear, thirty percent love, and thirty percent confused emotions. Some will maybe have fifty percent fear and forty percent confused emotions. Some will have one hundred percent fear. Some will have one hundred percent love, no fear.
You will be experiencing the Guru in many different ways. In whatever way you experience the Guru, that is the way you will experience God.
Whatever way you experience the Guru, whether it is with fear, or the attitude of Master and disciple, or the attitude of father and son, or the attitude of mother and son, or the attitude of friend, or the attitude of beloved, practice His presence around the clock.
Two things will happen. First, your actions will fall into awareness. Second, the fear or whatever is the lower experience you have about the Master, will become extinct.It will be burnt away. The percentage of fear you experience with me will be burnt away. The percentage of other emotions, except pure surrender, that you experienced with me will be burnt away.
These two things are possible only by practicing intensely the presence of the Guru, practicing the presence of the Master.
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Activity
Below is a powerful meditation technique.
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
This is a powerful meditation technique to practice the presence of the Master in your life and learn to surrender.
DURATION: 21 minutes
INSTRUCTION
When you sit in your office, think that Swamiji owns this place. How will Swamiji maintain this office? When you sit and talk to people, if Swamiji is here physically, how will He talk? When you do Guru Puja, just remember if He is sitting with open eyes, how will He do the ritual? Practicing the presence is the only way.