Thursday 10 May 2007

Surrender

Surrender to the Source.
Surrender to Awareness, this is the only place of protection.
Surrender your heart and you will know all.
Surrender to Consciousness and Bliss.

Surrender means to surrender your bondage and simply be Freedom.
Surrender is the ego bowing down to its Source.
No more demands or commands, but just putting all in the hands of the Source.
Surrender is to submit your stupidness, your wickedness, to the will of Existence, to Consciousness and Bliss and being happy.
That’s all.

Surrender.
Let Silence have You.

- Sri H.W.L. Poonja



Cultivating the ability is stay still and let whatever happens happen is so important in meditation, and indeed in life. It's incredibly simple but huge in terms of peace and experiencing the maximum of your Self that is there to be experienced. Totally letting go and getting out of the way results in such a joyful invincibility.

It is an act of absolute humility: "I know nothing. I know what I like, I know what is important to me. But I don't know how this universe works, what is best for me, how my greatest desire will unfold for me the smoothest and quickest.”

Absolutely surrendering is finally acknowledging the uselessness of the mind’s ability to give anything that lasts in terms of satisfaction. It allows the Grace of the universe to take over. Where before we would try and work out the best way, by surrendering in this moment we let the infinite wisdom of a power much greater than our puny mortal minds the space and permission to act. By giving up the mind and surrendering in this moment, we disappear. The Source is all that remains.

We’ll always have a choice, and rightly so. I’m not saying let life continue without your input. I’m saying act, but be free of the expectation of the result of action. Be innocent. There’s a huge difference, when we sit down to ascend or meditate, in life, everywhere.

We can make the choice to continue as we always have - trying to figure it out, to protect our interests, to secure our lives and our experience - or we can let go, giving everything including our grasping pride that we know up in exchange for resting back into the stillness of our inner awareness.

Stop fighting, you don't know anything.

It is just like a journey down a river, kicking back, letting the main current take us swiftly and smoothly to the re-cognition of who we really are, versus jumping in and attempting to control our descent by holding onto the side. The only thing that happens is that our journey is not smooth, fast or pleasant: we get pummelled and beaten by the rocks and branches.

The only time this happens to you - getting stuck or having a problem - is when you don’t fully surrender to what is, when you have an expectation or a position. The universe has a wonderful way of showing you all these places. It’s easy to make a half-hearted effort at surrendering. You can even surrender 99%, but that 1% will still get you. You’ll be shown if you’re hanging on in the slightest way. And it's a great thing if you are willing to be shown. There is God, knocking on your door, showing you where you can have more. Awesome. Being humble, being willing not to know, stepping back and letting whatever happens happen is the quickest way to regaining smoothness, peace and connection, and getting more.

So, don’t try and work anything out. Invest all of your attention in the Silence that remains in you when everything else is ignored. Surrender every impulse, every emotion, every great idea back to that. It's the easiest way. Nothing else has worked.

If not Now, when?