Surrender the unending
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Process
There is one thing in the cosmos which you can’t say you finished learning. That is surrender.It is an unending process, and it is the one and only thing I still continue to learn. As I always say, enlightenment is ultimate but not final. It is constantly happening.
Same way, surrender is ultimate but not final. When you first surrender, the different qualities of the cosmos start expressing in you. But after some time, you will think you have become very intelligent. You start feeling that you can analyze the cosmos with your intellect, with your understanding about life.
If you hold on to your logic, from that moment surrender stops and the expansion stops. Because you are stuck, sometimes the cosmos will give you a strong blow again. After struggling for years or maybe janmas, when you find that there is no solution in the outer world, you look in – and again the Cosmos is sitting there smiling, ‘Welcome back!’ You see. You melt. The surrender starts happening again. The highest possible intelligence and the different qualities of the cosmos starts happening again in you.
I tell you the same story exactly gets repeated with Masters. People will come, surrender, and experience the beautiful, intense period of ecstasy and expansion.Then suddenly after a certain amount of intellectual, emotional, and being-level expansion, their intellect starts judging the very source to which they surrendered. They start judging the Master, and when they start judging, they are stuck. Growth stops.
It’s almost like having a bridge that cannot be lifted to the other shore!First they make a bridge. That is surrender. Then, from the Master’s side, so much of intelligence, energy, compassion, expansion, and everything are sent to the disciple’s side. When the disciple receives too much, suddenly his ego just starts judging the Master. The moment you judge, the bridge of surrender