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?

Babaji

"Love and serve all humanity.
Assist everyone.
Be happy, be courteous.
Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy.
Recognize God and goodness in every face.
There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.
Praise everyone. If you cannot praise someone, let them out of your life.
Be original, be inventive.
Be courageous. Take courage again and again.
Do not imitate; be strong, be upright.
Do not lean on the crutches of others.
Think with your own head. Be yourself.
All perfection and every divine virtue are hidden within you. Reveal them to the world.
Wisdom, too, is already within you. Let it shine forth.
Let the Lord's grace set you free.
Let your life be that of the rose; in silence, it speaks the language of fragrance."

Babaji

Stuck

"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."

Ellen Glasgow

Perfection

It may seem at times that our search is for perfection, that one day we'll reach a state of ultimate purity and rest, finally fufilled, content, whole, finished. The reality I suspect, at least while we're still human, is of constant evolution, continual discovery of more.

Sure, there will come a time of an continuous experience of contentment and peace and fufillment, but as long as you continue to rest all of your awareness in the source of all, that source will continue to show you places where you can surrender more of yourself to it.

Which is a fantastic thing - a never ending, continually changing experience of being whole, and then even more whole, and then even more whole.

The great thing is that you can stop expecting that final stage, that final aha, because it never existed. You can give up getting it right, getting it perfect. What you are chasing is an idea of perfection based on a memory or a comparison of what you believe Truth to be. That either is gone, never to come again or it never was available to you in the first place.

Perfection is only available to you right now and you have no choice over how it looks.

In the same way you cannot be nearly full or almost there. It's not like that, there is no shallow and deep end to the swimming pool of God. You either are resting in Stillness or not. You're either wet or you're not.

If not Now, when?

Silence

"The purpose of all practice is Silence, your real nature.
Without Silence you cannot be in Peace,
so strive only for this.
Even while active, remain in Silence, as Silence, and be conscious of Silence always."

Poonja

Love Revolution

“At the risk of sounding ridiculous, I say all true revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.”

Che Guevera

Inspiration

I've just realised how important inspiration is to me. I've also realised how I can be a source of inspiration - I don't need that to come from outside of myself. Of course it is lovely and wonderful to be inspired by others but the responsibility for the constant creation of that comes from me.

It's this great cycle of never ending greatness - I tell people what excites and makes me passionate and then they get excited and up their dreams and then I get excited and oh my goodness its onwards and upwards...

It's inspiring to have my experience of stillness growing and changing within myself too. That alone provides ample inspiration for me to discover and create and live. It's fantastic. The more I go within, the more excited I get about my outside life. It's almost too much. There's so many things I want to do and not enough time to do them all at the same time!

I'm so grateful to see clearly my role in my life and having the tools to create what I want.

Life is good, truly a wonderous thing.