KARMA & SURRENDER One must take things as they come in accordance with one’s traditions and must be free from the feeling that one is doing them oneself. The feeling that I am doing it is bondage. It is therefore necessary to consider and find out the method whereby such a feeling can be overcome, instead of doubting as to whether medicine should be administered if one issick or whether food should be taken if one is hungry, such doubts will continue to come up and will never end. Even such doubts as, ‘May I groan if there is pain? May I inhale air after exhaling?’ also occur. Call it Iswara or call it karma; some Karta will carry on everything in this worldaccording to the development of the mind of each individual. If the responsibility is thrown at him (the Karta), things will go on of their own accord. We walk on this ground. While doing so, do we consider at every step whether we should raise one leg after the other or stop at some stage? Isn’t the walking done automatically? The same is the case with inhaling and exhaling. No special effort is made to inhale or exhale. The same is the case with this life also. Can we give up anything if we want to or do anything as we please? Quite a number of things are done automatically without our being consciousof them. Complete surrender to God means- giving up all thoughts and concentrating the mind on Him. If we can concentrate on Him, other thoughts disappear. If mano-vak-kaya karmas i.e. the actions of the mind, speech and body are merged with God, all the burdens of our life will be on Him.Lord Krishna told Arjuna in the Gita: To those men who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, to those ever harmonious, I bring full Security and attend to their needs. (IX:22) source: Letters from Sri Ramanasramam by Suri Nagamma (Absolute Surrender - 10th April 1947)
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