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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 3, 15th October 2023

my heart, every movement of my being, every Karma Yoga. We have been guided in Integral
feeling and every sensation, each cell of my Yoga that before we begin anything or any
body, each drop of my blood, all, all is yours, work we should call on the Force of the
yours absolutely yours without reserve. You Divine. That is all that is needed. Once we
can decide my life or my death, my happiness or call the force we open ourselves as per the
my sorrow, my pleasure or my pain; whatever Raadha’s prayer provided earlier. We can say
you do with me, whatever comes to me from for example the prayer:
you will lead me to the Divine Rapture (2).’”
“Om Sri Aurobindo Mira
Open my mind, my heart, my life
To your light, your love, your power.
In all things may I see the Divine (3).“
If this is how we call the Force, aspire
and request it to work through us, then
automatically even the sense of ‘I’ am
working or ‘I’ am doing is not there or slowly
it is dissolved. Calling, inviting and invoking
This practice translates as this: the Force and letting that Force work through
us is surrender. Then surrender becomes
• Either individually or with someone else natural after a point.
who is doing this sadhana together with you
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connect to the Divine Supreme through the Surrender to the Supreme
Universal Mother or Lord. You can also
connect to any Master of your resonance as Let us now turn our vision to Savitri of
all are linked to the One Divine Supreme Sri Aurobindo, to draw some clues on our
Mother or Lord. exploration:

• Stay in touch with the Divine through “For still the human limits the divine:
each activity of yours, clinging on to the Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight,
aspiration to surrender. Breathe her divine illimitable air,
Her simple vast supremacy confess,
• Take your individual efforts. Do your own Dare to surrender to her absolute.
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sadhana to make progress and let go within Then the Unmanifest reflects his form
to receive the Divine’s response. In the still mind as in a living glass;
The timeless Ray descends into our hearts
• Offer your inner life and reactions to the And we are rapt into eternity (4).”
Divine. Offer your outer works to the
Divine. If we take the middle line as our golden
key or practice — “Dare to surrender to her
• Simply wait for the Divine to make of you, absolute”, we would be able to understand
your life and work as the Divine pleases. and appreciate this process of surrender at
This is surrender in the path of Bhakti and a subtle level. Here we understand the full

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