What is true surrender? It is not just prostrating yourself in front of an image of God when you visit a temple or perform a ritual at home. That act of prostrating in front of Gods breathing image is just a physical form of surrender, an expression of either your innocence or your cunningness. In that surrender you are not completely lost. You have not forgotten your identity, duality and desires. You are still there, most of the time seeking and wanting, asking for things you do not have, and waiting for miracles to happen to become that special person God wants to love. It is not true surrender. It is surrender to desire and to a vision of yourself as a worshipper relying upon the hidden powers of the universe to manifest your cherished goals, dreams and desires. It is surrender to lifes longing to unite with the things of Nature and become an instrument of desire. True surrender is higher than that. It is surrendering desire itself, not surrendering to desire. It is giving yourself to God, the silent power that may never respond to your prayers and calls, without expectations. It is putting yourself at His feet, becoming that flower, or the flame, or the fruit you usually offer to Him. It is becoming the offering, rather than the offerer, the sacrifice rather than the sacrificer. In that sacred ritual, you do not offer mantras, but only your silence. It is a ritual, in which you communicate with Silence, through silence and by silence. In Hindu tradition, we recognize it as true devotion. Bhakti (devotion) means offering. You may mistake devotion for an emotion tinged with desire or an act of seeking through rituals; but in true devotion desire and seeking are absent, except the desire to lay at the feet of the universe and letting go of your will and desire to guard your life and ambition. True devotion is an act of silence, without drama. God, the omniscient one, does not need that drama to acknowledge your devotion. He understands your silence, without the need for words and gestures. DhRi this is how we manifest, like you are manifesting. I surrender with this love...and that is perfect manifestation. What we create is beauty and love...thank you for your manifestations and for the reminder to be LOVE
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:15:55 +0000
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