Monday, September 14, 2020

Surrender

 God will bear whatever burdens we put on Him. All things are being carried on by the omnipotent power of a Supreme God. Instead of submitting ourselves to It, why should we always be planning,

‘We should do this or that’.
Knowing that the train carries all the load, why should we, travelling therein, suffer by carrying our small bundle on our heads, instead of leaving it on the train and being happy.
The story of Ashtavakra teaches that in order to experience Brahma Jnana all that is necessary is to surrender yourself
completely to the Guru, to give up your notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. If these are surrendered, what remains is the Reality.
There are two ways of achieving surrender. One is looking into the source of the ‘I’ and merging into that source.
The other is feeling, ‘I am helpless myself, God alone is all powerful, and except by throwing myself completely on Him, there is no other means of safety for me’; and thus gradually developing the conviction that God alone exists and the ego does not count.
Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name for jnana or liberation.
Bhakti is not different from mukti. Bhakti is being as the Self. One is always That.
He realizes It by the means he adopts.
What is bhakti?
To think of God. That means only one thought prevails to the exclusion of all other thoughts. That thought is of God, which is the Self, or it is the self surrendered unto
God. When He has taken you up, nothing else will assail you.
-Gems from Bhagvan Sri Ramana Maharshi.



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