June 6, 2002
(by Karmayogi)
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Surrender is of
the being, consciousness, power and delight.
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Our prayer for a particular
result is NOT surrender that gives, but a
desire that asks for something. When it is granted, we falsely flatter
ourselves that it is because of our surrender. It is not true.
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A time comes when the issues
grow in size or weight and, the prayed for result does not issue. Then we think
of surrender and find it is not there. In truth, surrender has never been
there. Now that our usual prayer does not have its usual positive result,
and resort to surrender is ineffective, we understand it is a situation that
defies surrender.
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In such situations, we find
our mind insisting on its own ideas instead of endorsing the effect of
surrender.
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There is a promotion due. We see
intrigues in the office to award it to a junior. Our prayer is ineffective.
Insistent thoughts defy attempts at surrender is a typical situation. One is
helpless against ideas that insist on outer initiative – to aggressively claim
one’s due.
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To assert one’s claim is an initiate, an outer method of the mind.
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It happens when our own
personality, the person we are, our mentality – WE – have no faith or no
sufficient faith in surrender.
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The question is how to
surrender overcoming the initiative of mind.
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Any method of
mind, we know, has two sides of success or failure, however righteous or strong
our cause is, as there are a hundred other forces at work, while an act once
surrendered has only one outcome, success for The Mother. This is a knowledge of the soul.
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One may forget to surrender
which is unconsciousness.
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Another may act according to his
initiative and after fully expressing the initiative may think of surrender
feebly, which is weak consciousness against strong ego. Another may think of
surrender only when the work fails.
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The point at which surrender
comes to the mind shows the measure of his consciousness. Any beginning can
be made only there.
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It starts as a remembrance, an
opinion, a belief, a conviction, a mental faith and grows in strength in the
measure one shifts to surrender.
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Such a shift announces itself as a growing calm that is ineffective to
solve the problem but effective to banish tension.
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How quickly one can move from
an initial calm to final solution is determined by the human choice one
exercises along the way.
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It is a well known phenomenon
that each little gain of CALM or
STRENGTH is fully used by the ego to
push ahead the initiative of mind.
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It is equally a well observed
phenomenon that while the ego is active, an indifference or forgetfulness
overtakes one, both of which are expressions of unconsciousness.
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Mechanical
repetition of “I surrender myself” works at the physical level for those who
are centred there.
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Calling Mother
into oneself works for vital personalities.
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A clearer understanding or a
change of mind with respect to surrender works for mental people.
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Methods depend
upon the type of personality.
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A spiritual person IS silent in the face of odds.
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One can be aware, at this stage,
of one’s eagerness to use the calm that develops to assert. To see that move
and withdraw one’s energy from there is a help. Energy thus saved goes to
strengthen the faith.
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Mental ideas arise as alternatives
of success or failure, the measure of each varying.
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Faith in
surrender is always success to Mother. That knowledge is reassuring and with
reassurance grows faith.
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With growing faith, calm
establishes itself and enables faith to produce results.
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What matters is awareness, consciousness, remembrance of Mother, and
surrender.
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When it is not there, create it.
When it is there, concentrate on it.
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Conscious
awareness excludes problems.
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Surrender
defied is ego asserted.
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When such calm develops for a
while, the feeling that the thought may at last be surrendered rises a little.
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When the
most important work relents a little, it is the best time to attempt
surrendering work of NO
significance, such as turning a page or sitting down in a chair. It is an occasion for one to
experience that for surrender no work is great or small.
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Turning a page
admits of the movement of surrender only as much as the thought of promotion.
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As a corollary, we now see the
complete surrender can be attempted at any point of life, regardless of its
depth, intensity or significance.
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Each man enjoys a certain degree
of social respectability at all points of his social intercourse. Points of
contact may vary, but the treatment he receives is unvarying. So too is the
success of consecration.
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It is not as if he meets from
outside the SAME treatment. It is his own swabhava, nature that evokes the response at each
point of social contact.
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The root of ego is in the
thinking mind and its knot in the subtle heart.
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People given to
thinking will find the resistance greatest in the head which those who feel see
in the heart, but everyone has to meet the ego at both centres.
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There are moments when the head
gives way and the heart is there prominently and at those moments one feels he
is meeting his entire being at the heart.
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When the idea
that surrender is unfailing grows on one, it is better he makes his effort at
surrender more and more precisely.
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by withdrawing his reliance on
his claim,
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on the method of claiming,
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on the method as such,
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on the externalities as a
whole,
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on the emotion of relying on
the claim,
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on the very habit of it,
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on the physical sensation of the claim.
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