Surrender is falling in🔗

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The word, surrender needs to be translated. It is misunderstood in the West, meaning to become a slave. No! Surrender can be translated, as rising to that frequency, as falling in tune or feeling-connection. Please understand, when you start feeling connected, falling in tune, you will attract that vibration to your vibration.

I have really seen it, in my own life. When a devotee brings something with a lot of love it will be a very small thing. Somehow even I cannot resist myself. I will just pick it up and put it in my mouth whether it is a small sweet or a piece of cloth. I will just take it and put it on my body. It will be on my body continuously for many days.

Surrender is nothing but devotion that becomes a part of your bio-memory. Stabilized devotion is surrender. Devotion means where you the person or the object or the space to which you are devoted both exist. But in surrender you say, let you exist, that’s enough. Nothing else is required. I am so happy to dissolve in you. Just to be lost in the sweetness which happens in my mouth when I remember you. I am ready to lose myself in that sweetness, in that joy, in that taste.

During my wandering days, I was resting in the afternoon under a tree with my head on a small stone that had turmeric and some worship items. But I did not think that the stone would be worshipped by somebody as God. In the villages in India, every stone, every tree is worshipped. The ability to worship everything whether it is a stone or a tree is not a joke, understand! The ability to bow down to everything; the ability to surrender to everything; the ability to trust everything is one of the greatest gifts from the Indian civilization.

There is a beautiful Zen story. There was a great Master. His disciple (Suzuki) was also an enlightened master. When Suzuki’s Master passed away, he started crying, weeping, and rolling on the ground. All the other disciples came and asked him, ‘what Him, because He became me and I became Him. That is different. But physically I will miss Him. I will miss the graceful actions of Him and the beautiful conscious play happening around Him. I will miss Him. That’s why’.

Then another disciple asked,‘then what about the teaching you are giving all these years. Accept what is happening. Accept what is happening. Tathata Tathata! What happened to that teaching? Have you taught this to us without you experiencing it?’ Please understand, a very beautiful truth. Just understanding this can give you a very strong click.

Suzuki gives a very beautifully explanation. There are two levels of acceptance. First accepting whatever is outside, the situation. Accepting the situation. Surrendering to this moment. Surrendering to thathada; what is. Surrendering to the now. When surrendering to the now happens, it does not mean you will be insensitive. When you surrender to this moment. That is when the Master is dead, he is no more, it is not that you will be insensitive. It can create strong emotions in you. Accepting that also.

Second accepting whatever is internal, inner level. Usually what we do, we try to accept the situation in the outer world then immediately we have a scale. If I accept I should be behaving like this in the inner world. You don’t have acceptance in the inner world. You have a scale, if I accept this situation, I should be peaceful, collective, calm, and restful. You have a scale about the inner world. You have accepted the outer world. Means you are very moral; conscience based, but not consciousness-based. There is a big difference between just accepting the outer world happening and accepting the inner world happenings.

Here Suzuki is throwing a new light on Thathada; acceptance. Let us surrender everything. He is not even bothered about God. He is bothered about surrendering; that quality. He says you can use God as a tool to surrender that is all, as an object to surrender. That is all. He takes complete responsibility.

Surrendering with responsibility is enlightenment. Responsible surrender is enlightenment. I have seen people surrendering or claiming that they have surrendered. Oh God! Even if you are caught by your enemies you will not be tortured that much by these pseudo-surrendering people. They will claim that they have surrendered and whatever right happens is their responsibility. It's because of them. Whatever wrong happens, it's because of you. And they will not do anything more than saying the word, I have surrendered, I have surrendered.

Many people come and tell me, 'Swamiji, what should I do further?' I tell them,'what do you mean?''No, whatever you say I will do'. The moment I tell them something, 'No, No, No I have this difficulty, that problem, this problem'. Then I tell them, 'then tell all your conditions first, then I will tell you the solution'. They say, 'no, no, no whatever you do I will do. Whatever you say, I will do'. The moment I open my mouth, they will have thousand and one conditions, thousand and one priorities, thousand and one preferences, and thousand and one conditions. So take the responsibility completely on your shoulder. A responsible person even if he surrenders, it will be so graceful, so beautiful.

Below is a powerful meditation technique.

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This technique is based on a Zen Buddhist spiritual practice. In this technique, all you have to do is mentally give away everything that you think belongs to you.Don't be deceived by the simplicity of the technique. It is a very powerful technique to heal our restlessness and tune us with Existence.

All our restlessness is because we are always struggling to possess more and more, to achieve more and more. When we realize that nothing we possess is actually ours, a deep healing and acceptance happens to us.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna says: Ananyaschintayanto maam ye janah paryupaasate Teshaam nityaabhiyuktaanaam yogakshemam vahaamyaham

When you live totally in tune with the Existential power, that same power takes care of running and enriching your life, materially as well.

Just the understanding that Existence gives and takes at the right moment is enough. Then you know that what is happening is the right thing for the moment and life is flowing, as it should.

This creates a mental gap between you and your wealth,