Day 22
Surrender often denotes a sense of weakness, a sense of failure, a sense of slavery, isn’t it so? But there is another part of surrender. That aspect of the word “surrender” which denotes freedom.
The pinnacle of Love is also called “surrender’, where your whole being becomes one with the infinite, where the river meets the ocean, where the activity reposes in rest, in the self. The culmination of activity, the culmination of feeling, the culmination of action, of amoment, of an event is all called “ surrender”.
Surrender simply means from limited power energy to unlimited ocean of existence. Growing from limitation to limitless, merging into the divinity, the vast powerful omnipresent, omnipotent truth. An intense love is associated with surrender.
Normally the word surrender is used with intense fear, anguish, weakness. Actually a weak person cannot surrender. He will appear to have surrendered, but inside there is a deep-seated desire to take revenge, to come back with more vengeance.
Only when you realise your magnanimity can you be at peace. That state you Call surrender, that merging with the Divine. Often surrender has been used as something to convey slavery or weakness. When you let go of all the tension, fear, anxiety and small mindedness, what dawns in you is freedom.
That freedom is real joy, is real love, is the beauty, and that could be called surrender. It is in your nature. It is in heaven and it is in your nature. Like the mother’s love for her baby, 6 months, 1 year, 2 year old baby, you can say the mother surrenders to her baby.
Narada’s entire aphorisms focus on offering all activities, all attitudes, everything to the Divine and feeling free. If you are miserable, then you have forgotten your true nature. No one else is responsible for your misery because it is just you who has forgotten how vast, how beautiful you are.
You know a small speck of dust can obstruct your vision of vastness, can’t it? You are looking at the vast sky, a huge mountain, just a small dust particle in your eyes is enough to blind you. In the same way, completely insignificant things occupy your mind.
Really useless things occupy your mind, go round and round, and obstruct your true nature, which is love. Is love a practice? No. Can you sit and practice being in Love? How many days, how many minutes? How should you sit and what should you do?
Raise your arm up and tongue out? There was a gentleman in one of the meditation classes. He was the chief justice in the international court at Hague. After hearing all the talk on how meditation means to be effortless-nothing to do, just to relax.
He asked where the tongue should be, “What should be the position of the tongue when we meditate?” I said as long as it is inside the mouth, it is okay. Where do you put the tongue? Keep it out?
