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Recieved: 1999/08/07 17:04
Subject: [K-list] Surrender Saranagathi
From: Tony O'Clery
On 1999/08/07 17:04, Tony O'Clery posted thus to the K-list:
Sai Ram Brothers and Sisters,
What is surrender? Many people have the impression that it is some
kind of obedience only. This is not so, and false understanding.
Surrender is laying the ego at The Lotus Feet of The Lord. In actual
fact it is laying the ego at The Lotus of one's own Heart. For herein
dwells The Lord and is The Lord. In other words true devotion and
surrender is in actual fact Moksha or Realisation. Giving up the idea
of being an individual. The pot is broken and the air in the pot
cannot be separated from the air outside, just the pot form gave the
idea of separateness. In fact the pot itself is also an illusion for
it is only a form of clay. The body is the pot, the mind is the air.
Where is mind now? The pot becomes clay again. There is no difference
between The Lord and a True Devotee.
Everytime I have tried to surrender, I have found that problems seems
to diminish and a different view of the world emerges. Even if the
problem is still there. When I act without surrender the heavy
ego-karma creates pain and suffering. The ego-will always bring dukkha
or suffering. The best solution is Nishkarma Karma, offer all to The
Lord for He/She is the doer anyway.
"The word surrender in English is not quite correct, it is not the
right word. It does not quite explain. When you say surrender you are
separate and God is separate. That is the meaning you get but God is
not separate." Swami,Sai Baba, CWSSB, P 7, Compendium, p 572.
Love and Sai Ram, Tony.
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Keep on truckin-Chant the Gayatri!
"God is formless. In order to merge in the formless God,
you have to give up identification with the body."
"There is only one Soul and that is God." Sai Baba.
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