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Spiritual Surrender
In many of my earlier posts I have written
on ‘surrender’ – today I will try and explain it after listening to Osho’s
Ashtavakra Gita and my understanding based on that explanation. The question
was ‘How to surrender?’ Surrender is not something that one has to do, it is
something that happens. Swamiji too has mentioned that he plays his music
according to your song – meaning he is with you to the extent you are with him.
I remember when I attended the shibir in 2009 February, I was drawn into it
with great force, I became ‘mad’ and got so intoxicated that the family felt I
had gone nuts. I went to almost all the cities where Swamiji was giving his
darshan shibirs! I realise now that my complete, unconditional surrender took
place during that first shibir itself – it just happened, I did not do anything
– it was all His Grace!
The problem with ‘surrender’ is we think
we know it all and because we are filled with knowledge it becomes difficult for
the mind to accept ‘surrender’. The mind will bring in all kinds of impediments
and questions to make you reconsider your decision. Surrender cannot take place
bit by bit. Knowledge covers your eyes with dark clouds, creates a wall of thick
smoke, and you start feeling that you know. Actually, you are going deeper into
ignorance. The Upanishads have a great saying, “The ignorant man is lost in
darkness, but the knowledgeable man is lost in deeper darkness than the
ignorant – because the knowledgeable lives in an ‘as if’ world. He thinks he
knows, but he knows not.”
Osho says that surrender is a real mystery
– this is the beginning of real knowing, when all life becomes a mystery, when
you come to a state of not knowing at all! When we drop everything, we know and
accept that we know nothing – that is when our mind becomes empty and we are able
to absorb divine knowledge.
Surrender is actually a quantum leap from
mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness, and then in a single step the whole
journey is contained! It is actually not a long journey from you to Paramatma,
it is a single-step journey. It is not gradual, it is not that it happens bit
by bit, and gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment
you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to
put the ego aside. Once the ego is put aside, your eyes open and you realise
that God is not hidden, he is within you.
Surrender means opening your eyes,
dropping the false idea that “I am separate from the whole.” You wake up to
reality and the false idea in your mind disintegrates, leaving you with real
knowledge. Once this happens you move away from the hallucinatory world of the
ego into the world of spiritual surrender which is filled with divine bliss and
joy – as bliss is the very nature of the way things are!
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