Linda/ self-surrender/The bargain of a life time

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self-surrender/The bargain of a life time

Hello Harsha:

I love this sharing. It seems so in line with something that is going

on in my life right now. I have a tendency to be disatisfied and

have been working on dropping attachments to desires. It came to me

one night that desires were not the problem it was my aversions that

were causing much of my lack of peace. So I switched gears and now

am working through the details of life that fall into my judgement of

aversion. Last night I had this dream in which I needed to clear my

throat and I spit on the floor of an ashram. Even in the dream I was

horrified that I would do something like that. There was this yogi

who saw me do this and told me how shocked he was and walked out of

the room. In the dream I realized that I did not spit with malice

and lightened up at which point the yogi walked back in laughing and

then smiled at me.

Thank you for what this mind sees as a story that is synchronized with

my own thoughts on this sunny Sunday. Truly the good, the bad are

only as different as a peach or plum.

Love,

Linda

Hi Linda. Your dream is very interesting. Dharma is the dream expert

here. The changes in the yogi in the dream coincide with your

changing self- reflections and self-judgment and yes, I can see how

the notion of surrender would make sense in that context.

Glad you enjoyed the story, "Bargain of a life time" with Sri Ramana.

It is a powerful story of surrender. It teaches us that when we fully

surrender to the Lord, we have in fact surrendered our ego-identity

itself to the Divine. Having done it, overly critical self-judgments

may lose their hold. In the west, the same concept is in the prayer

"Not my will but thy my Lord" Or "Let thy will be done."

Others can speak to that. I am sure in the western traditions (Greg or

Gloria would know for Christianity and perhaps Bruce and Dan for

Judaism and Ed - Lobster for Sufism) there is probably the notion of

and examples of complete surrender.

Love to all

Harsha