Surrender

In order to embrace the totality of being, one must be ready for one thing – one must be ready to surrender one's hold on that sense of false identity which is the mind. The later must be completely put aside, along with all expectations, desires, and fears. One must remain completely detached from all personal experiences and preconceived ideas. One must withdraw from all memory so as to be in a state of direct affiliation with what is real – the totality of life. One must be ready to move ahead with a naked openness, a state of total receptivity to the blessing of self-realization.

When the mind realizes its inadequacy to perceive what is real, it can only let go and surrender. It is then that it can embrace that state of mind which is everlastingly silent, forever connected to the source of infinite being.

It is only when one gets to see the mind in activity as it is, that the opportunity to surrender becomes manifest. When the mind clearly perceives that the source of its limitations is its own maintenance of a sense of “I-identity”, all that is then required is surrender to that which has been witnessing the whole unfolding process.