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Namah Surrender Each Moment

You can do this practice on your own or in aspirations, desires, outer pursuits, relation-
small groups where the experience for each ships, works and so on to the Divine and its
could be more tangible and palpable, as all Creative Force? Very few of us remember to
are paying attention to the same practice. do the sadhana of offering in real time. Very
few of us, in the moment when a fear grips
us, a depression sucks us, a doubt stirs, or
emotional memories surge, actually become
aware of these states and offer them to the
Divine, to be taken up for transformation.

While doing the saadhanaa of surrender, how
close do we feel the Divine within, above,
below or around us? Who do we feel is doing
a
a
this sadhana? What are we aware of primarily
— our experiences or the divine Presence?
For most of us, we will feel a sense of our
Negation of surrender individual self, the ‘I’ doing something
with a surrendered poise to touch the
Let us begin a deeper reflection through this Divine. This still is a part of the negation
quote by the Mother: of surrender, even mentally if we remind
ourselves that as sincere children of the
“You see, the mass is still under the great rule Divine Mother we need to do our effort
of Nature. I am referring to mental humanity, and aspire. Yet it is the Divine Mother
predominantly mental, which developed the who is primarily doing the saadhanaa in us,
mind but misused it and immediately set out according to each of our capacities. She
on the wrong path — first thing. brings us to the greater depths that we
don’t have direct access to. Even if we take
“There is nothing to say since the first thing surrender as a faith, bringing in the aspect
done by the divine forces which emanated of love to remind us that it is the Divine
for the Creation was to take the wrong path!’ who is actually doing the practice in us, we
That is the origin, the seed of this marvelous can swing more to the side of absolute trust
spirit of independence — the negation of in the sacredness of surrender. Though the
surrender, in other words. Man said, ‘I have Divine Mother does not need our will and
the power to think; I will do with it what I can anyway act and mould us, surrender
want, and no one has the right to intervene. I makes the process more harmonious, joyful
am free, I am an independent being, IN- DE- and conscious.
PEN-DENT! So that’s how things stand: we
are all independent beings (1)!” It is love that will help us to expand and
widen our consciousness, to feel the Divine
How many seconds in a day are we consciously and aspire to connect to the Divine. It is love
in a state of surrender? Do we actually that will help us to aspire to go beyond what
remember to offer our inner experiences, we are holding now, to wish that we embody

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