Surrender the Material and Spiritual world🔗

Let me explain what I mean by the word surrender. Think of two intersecting lines, axes. The vertical axis is spiritual life. The horizontal axis is material life. The point of intersection is your being. This is the goal you have. You have some goal in your material life and also in your spiritual life. To achieve your goal in your material life, you are continuously struggling and working.

To achieve your spiritual goal, you are again working intensely doing yoga, pranayama (breathing techniques), etc. When you struggle with material goals, you are on the horizontal line whereas when you struggle with spiritual goals, you are on the vertical line. As long as you struggle in material life, you avoid spiritual life. As long as you struggle in spiritual life, you avoid material life. Both are a struggle.

‘Relax from both.’ You may think, ‘What is this funny instruction?’ You thing that if you relax in both you will lose both. However, the truth is, that when you relax in both you fall into your inner consciousness, your being or your inner space. When you experience this inner consciousness you will suddenly realize that you can explode in all directions. You do not need to choose between horizontal and vertical lines. You can travel on both lines at the same time!

In the material word, the world of ‘mine,’ your properties are your goal. In the spiritual world, also you have certain goals, such as enlightenment. Actually, spiritual goals create more ego than material goals. At least with material goals, at some point you realize that you cannot achieve real happiness by running after them.

But with spiritual goals you do not even understand what

Somebody asked me, 'Swamiji, I have surrendered to you. What should I do?' I told him, 'If you really surrender, you will not have that questions! You will be guided from within. As long as you have doubts, you have not surrendered.'