8: Surrender the Emotion🔗

Emotional surrenderhappens when you feel deeply connected to the Master. When you start to experience one or two things: a little meditation, a little bit of understanding, etc., naturally the emotional surrender starts happening. You start respecting His emotions much more than your emotions. Master's emotions means whatever He tries to guide you, whatever way He wants you to live. You start giving importance to that. More than what you think as life.

Slowly, slowly He becomes the centre of your life. Almost like you start respecting Him more than all the other emotional attachments. The priority is slowly changing. You start thinking in your emotions, in your emotional level. Master comes as a number one priority. This is what I call emotional surrender. In the emotional level you feel connected.

People ask how they will remember me when they go away from the ashram. I tell them that if I am their Master they will have trouble forgetting me! The thought of the Master will melt your heart. You will become emotional. You do not need to be in the Master's physical presence. The mere thought is enough. Tears will flow from your eyes. Ramakrishna, a great enlightened being from India, says, 'Know this for sure: When the mere thought of your istadevata (favorite deity) or your Master reduces you to tears, you are in your final janma, your final birth.'

What an enlightened Master says is always true. So powerful is this surrender that it can liberate you, enlighten you. This is the power of devotion, bhakti. All Masters say that this is the easiest way to reach them. They say, 'Just be devoted to Me and Me alone, and I shall save you.'

Below is a powerful meditation technique.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This technique is an instant way to become aware when you are suddenly caught in some powerful emotion like anger or desire.

Usually, we feel that some object causes all our emotions. We think that it comes from outside. But, the truth is that these emotions come from you. You are the source of all your emotions. The object is just a means for the emotion to express itself. The origin is you.

If the emotion is bad for your consciousness, you will be freed of it by bringing awareness. If it is good for you, it will deepen through awareness. And ultimately you learn how to surrender your emotions to the Master.

DURATION: Not applicable

INSTRUCTIONS

At the moment when the emotion rises inside you, become intensely aware. When you become aware, you arrest the emotion. You don't allow it to flow out of you in the form or words or actions.

Now, look within for the real source of the emotion. Forget the person or the situation that caused it. Just go to the source of the energy. Just see from where the emotion is rising. If you are experiencing anger, go to the source of the anger. Just feel the irritation in the body. Feel the disturbance in the mind. You will see, you are already carrying the seed of anger inside you. You are carrying enough anger-energy inside! The other person just brought it out, that's all.

When you understand this deeply, suddenly your focus shifts from the other to yourself, from the seen to the seer.

When you realize yourself as the source of all your emotions, not only will you stop blaming others, but you will also experience a deep relaxation. You will become more flowing in your joy, and more centered in your pain.

Surrender the Senses

The deeper level of surrender is the surrender of the senses. This means you surrender your senses and will listen to what the Master says.

One disciple asks the Vedic Rishi,‘Why should I surrender? What is the need?’ The Master answers,‘as far as you understand as you, how do you know you?’ He says ‘through my senses’. ‘According to your senses, who are you?’ ‘I am this body and mind!’ Master says,‘according to your senses you are body and mind. But according to me you are God. Only when you surrender your senses. Only when your senses start listening to what I say you will see the truth of what I am explaining. According to you, according to your senses you are body and mind. But according to me you are God. When you surrender your senses, when you believe me more than your senses, you will experience you are God!’ He says the moment you believe me more than your senses, you will understand the meaning of Tat Tvam Asi!

Master again and again represents the ideal that You are God! Please understand, I am again telling you. I am not here to prove I am God, I am here to prove You are God. Again and again He stands for the ideal "You are Infinite." There are so many dimensions in your being, which you have not yet explored, which you have not yet experienced. Again and again he is showing so many dimensions of your being to yourself!

Master stands for your multidimensional being. He again and again shows, it’s possible for you. When it’s possible for me, why not for you? But as long as you believe your senses, you can be sure you are body or mind.

Only when you trust the Master more than your senses, you will realize – Master’s words are true, more than your senses. Then you will experience the truth of the Master’s words. Then when Master says, you are God. Then suddenly you will realize yes! Its truth. All these days my body and mind; my senses were telling me I am the body and the mind.

As long as you believe your senses, you will believe only their ideas. The moment you start believing the Master, more than your senses, you will realize the truth which Master explained.

Two people are speaking from two stages. One side your body is saying You are the body, you are the mind. On the other side, the Master is saying You are God! You are divine. You have so many dimensions of your being. Enjoy everything! Experience everything! If you are sitting there and listening, you cannot listen to this. Only when you believe this, the words of the Master more than the words of the senses, you will be able to experience the truth that you are God. You are the ultimate! You are both the material and spiritual; both together and something more.

Let me tell you a small incident from Krishna’s life. After the Gita, Krishna and Arjuna are going somewhere. Maybe for a picnic, an outing. Suddenly Krishna says, ‘Arjuna see those white crows!’ Arjuna says, ‘Yes, yes, beautiful, white crows’. After two minutes Krishna says, ‘No, no, no, they are black crows only!’ Arjuna says, ‘Yes, yes, Krishna, they are black crows only’. Suddenly Krishna asks, ‘Fool! What happened to you? When I