Visitor: What is self-surrender?

[Guest guest]

Visitor: What is self-surrender?

Bhagavan: It is the same as mind-control. The ego submits when it

recognises the higher authority of the Atman. This is thebeginning of surrender. Although the ego cannot existwithout the Self, yet, due to its ignorance of this fact, itremains rebellious, and acts on its own initiatives and byits own will.

 

V. How can the rebellious ego be subjugated?

 

Bh: Either by seeking its source, when it automatically

disappears, or by deliberately surrendering all its actions,motives and decisions, striking thereby at its root. Habitscreate the false notion that thinking is a permanentinstitution, with which it is impossible to dispense, butenquiry and discrimination will blast this fallacy. Nonesucceeds without effort and the successful few owe theirvictory to perseverance.

 

V. People prostrate before God or the Guru to prove, I

suppose, or at least to show their surrender.

 

Bh. True surrender is the melting of the ego in its Source, the

Heart. God is not deceived by physical genuflections;what He sees in the worshipper is how much of the egoremains in full control and how much is on the verge ofself-destruction.