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"Love Him when you see Him
and surrender yourself the same moment,
you cease to exist and your goal is achieved.”
Our Sahaj Marg sadhana reaches a culminating point in the surrender
of the self into the Universal Self of the Master. It is a culmination
in sadhana but only a beginning in spirituality! All abhyasis ask how
this surrender is to be achieved, or how a state of surrender is to
be arrived at. Master has taught many things about it. The first step
is meditation, to be followed by constant remembrance. After this a
stage comes when we must have got rid of the idea that we are ‘doers’.
It is Master who is the real doer, the real karta. When this
attitude becomes established, the fruits of action, the karma-phala,
also belong to Him. All ideas of reward, of punishment etc., evaporate
away here, to leave a vacuum into which He can flow in increasing measure.
God did not create Himself for any one race or any one country or any
one set of people. He created everything and if He created everything,
everything is His, whether we like it or not, and in ourselves it is
spirituality. We are only seeking to cease being our own and to become
His. This is what surrender implies. Surrender says, ‘My Lord, I am
no longer my own as I thought I was, I am now yours, do unto me as you
will.’ This becomes possible when there is love, not when there is fear.
When there is fear we cannot surrender. We may talk of surrendering.
We can surrender only our arms, as one set of forces does to the victorious.
So surrender in those terms means victory and defeat. Here surrender
of the soul to its creator is only returning to Him what belongs to
Him. There is no question of victory or defeat. On the contrary I would
consider it our victory over Him, because we are able to persuade Him
to take us back when all our life we have been trying to run away from
Him, to negate His very existence. So in that sense every soul that
can go back to its maker has won a victory over its own maker by persuading
Him to take it back in spite of all transgressions, of misdeeds, in
spite of saying that God does not exist. This is the general picture
that emerges from my Master’s teaching.
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