Sri Ramana: Devotion same as submission

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The path of devotion is the same really as that of submission. The whole burden

is cast upon the Guru. This also Sri Bhagavan enjoined. To one devotee he said.

"Submit to me and I will strike down the mind". To another he said, "Only keep

quite, Bhagavan will do the rest." He told another, Devaraja Mudaliar, "your

business is only to surrender and leave everything to me." And he often said,

"There are two ways: either ask yourself 'Who am I?' or surrender to the Guru."

And yet, to surrender, to keep the mind still and be fully receptive to the

Grace of the Guru, is not easy. It requires constant effort, constant

remembering, and only the Grace of the Guru makes it possible.........

 

A snip from Ramana Maharshi..By Osborne