Surrender – Guru Does The Rest

 

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Surrender – Guru Does The Rest

In every discourse Swamiji talks of ‘samarpan’ – surrender – and then see what changes take place. But surrender is the greatest gamble. Surrender means putting aside the mind completely. When we surrender to the Guru, we give our everything to him with the feeling that our life is now in His hands, and whatever happens will be his wish. It will be for our spiritual benefit – that much we accept, whether what happens is considered to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ by society! When we start behaving like this our friends and family think we have lost it completely – because people who live in their logic and in their minds will think we have gone mad! In reality this is not madness – it is courage that has made us take this step and this step is the deepest jump one can ever take.

All saints during their lifetime were condemned as mad men – Jesus, Buddha, Shirdi Baba, but time proved that they were saints of their eras. They were giants whom the ignorant masses failed to recognise. Religions are formed with the teachings of such people at the base. Later, the intellectuals take over and they start interpreting the simple teachings and make them complicated. This is what has created the chaos in today’s world. At the source of the energy, when the Master is alive, then the ‘truth’ is experienced – the time that we live in is that era.

There are lots of Masters doing their work of awakening the masses, those who are fortunate and have connected with a living Master, know the meaning of surrender, know the meaning of true love, which is what humanity is all about.

When we truly and completely surrender to the Master, take initiation, and after that a part of the Master is instilled within us in subtle form, and this forms the umbilical cord between the Master and disciple. The only way the disciple can feel and sense the Master, is when he/she starts meditating and trying to emulate his master to the extent possible. When we take one step towards the Master, he takes ten steps towards us. He will hold on to our hand firmly, it is up to us to hold his hand firmly too. If we let go, then after a point the Master too will let go, and then we will have to start all over again.

We need to remember that surrender is our sense towards our Guru, our ‘bhaav’, once we surrender completely our life goes on autopilot and things just start happening. We become witnesses and watch the drama of our life with detachment. Love starts flowing from within us and that love is felt by all those who come within our aura.