THE SELF-SURRENDER
256 What is called
surrender of oneself to God is the final consummation of the practice of
devotion. This can be achieved by the purified mind when the might of the ego
is greatly reduced.
257 Just as a small
magnet becomes united to a big one by the juxtaposition of the opposite poles,
so the finite soul becomes one with the Supreme Being by the conjunction of its
head with His feet.
258 The self-surrender
is truly made by him who always has the feeling, ‘Let all things happen
according to your will. In all respects, I am bound to you.’
259 He that has
surrendered himself will be at peace, remembering that He [God] is the bearer
of the world’s burden. The one that bears the burden himself will be ridiculous,
like the figure on the temple-tower appearing to bear the tower on its own
shoulders.
260 As one travelling in
a carriage puts down his luggage in the carriage itself and completes his
journey, so should he resign his own [samsaric] burden to God and complete his
life in the world.
261 The wise one should resign to God his
cares concerning the good of the world, just as he resigns to Him his cares
about his own body and family.
262 The ripe devotee must pass his time,
patiently enduring whatever happens to him, whether pleasant or unpleasant or
otherwise, without yielding to sorrow or joy, with his heart absorbed in Him.
263 When the ego dies, having been swallowed by divine grace, the devotee’s self-surrender becomes true
and complete.
265 Since the Self is the Supreme Being
Himself, by whom, how and to whom is the surrender to be made? True
self-surrender is only the extinction of the ego, by which the sense of being
different from Him arises.
266
‘If you desire to give yourself to God, then first seek out and know
your Self. The gift of oneself to God will be accomplished in this way.’ So said the most holy one.
267 The truth of namaskara also is only the
perfect giving up of the ego-sense. Right
awareness,
self-surrender
and namaskara,
all these three are one and the same.
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