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Namah Surrender Each Moment

Divine or any of their qualities.

2. We bring in an element of choice now. This
is a choice to evolve to leap and embrace
divine qualities within the functions of our
human existence — our thinking, feeling,
emotions and body, and also to express it
out through our actions and works.

3. We do our own healing, inner work or
dynamic posture of surrender. What we open practice to correct our limitations, tune our
ourselves to through surrender, infills us. strengths and learn new ways of existing
So if we connect our body, mind, vital and and expressing.
our works and offer them to the Divine, the
highest qualities of the Divine will fill inside 4. We aspire to remember to surrender. For
us. this we need to fully and internally believe
in the importance and magnificence of this
We can aspire to do this as a practice, through practice. This quote from the Mother points
the day and when parts of our night can become the full significance of this process:
conscious too. While it is one posture, attitude
or action, for the sake of our clarity let us “What Sri Aurobindo called the true ‘surrender,’
examine this surrender practice as a few the surrender to the Supreme, is a truth higher
steps: than that of relying solely upon oneself (5).”

1. We become aware of portions or parts of 5. This surrender needs to be conscious. This
our thoughts, emotions, sensations and would mean that there needs an aspiration,
body, that limits the Divine’s qualities and or a silent word or intent that says or feels
expressions. This has a dual posture. We are something like ‘Svaha or Surrendering’. This
a
aware of ourselves and our nourishing or posture needs to be invoked experientially,
limiting states. We are aware experientially else it is just something mechanical. Each
of at least some of the divine qualities like time we need to say inwardly, feel or
Light, Peace, Silence, Harmony, Love, simply aspire that the thought-emotion-
Power, Union, Delight and Joy. It is by sensation-body is offered to the Divine and
holding these two postures that we know their qualities.
in our experience that what is flowing
through us, limits the Divine. This posture 6. Now the key part of surrender is to learn
of surrender is a dual posture that bridges to wait. Let us take the second-last line
the human with the Divine. Our awareness from the above Savitri quotation to glean
is placed within the limiting part of body, an insight. “The timeless Ray descends
sensation, emotion or thought. Also we are into our hearts”. So if we connect a
either connected to or calling or keeping limiting or partially developed portion
our awareness present with or within the of our thought-emotion-feeling-body to

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