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

the Divine, then we need to wait till a hands. Or rather, we know quite well
Divine quality descends or enters within where it is, and there is only one thing to
the thought-feeling-emotion body, and do: the perfect ‘surrender’ Sri Aurobindo
they start functioning at a higher level of speaks of, the total surrender to the divine
consciousness. Will whatever happens, even in the dark
of night.
This is how the fullness of the surrender
practice feels. This whole thing is to be done “There is night and sun, night and sun, and
in the moment when the thought, emotion, night again, many nights, but one must cling
feeling, sensation and body experience is to this will for ‘surrender,’ cling as through a
beginning to unfold. storm, and put everything into the hands of the
Supreme Lord. Until the day when the Sun
Clinging to the will to surrender shall shine forever, the day of total Victory (6).”

The process of surrender may sound So we have at least three concrete clues in
delightful to read. However, in real-time our practice of surrender:
practice, we go back to the question with
which we started the article. How many 1. Practise the full posture of surrender as we
seconds in a day and night are we actually have explored — Awareness, Conscious
able to consciously surrender? Can we first Choice, Connect to the Divine, Offer and
look at our will? Can we connect to our navel Wait.
region and sense if there is sufficient will and
power in the first place? Is our will open? 2. Consciously develop and strengthen our
How can we intensify our will-force? Then will to surrender.
can we reflect if we are consciously willing?
Do we have a conscious will to surrender 3. Cling on to this will to surrender during
our every action, thought and behaviour to both our joyful and challenging moments
the Divine? May our reflection intensify our in life and work.
calm aspiration to will and surrender every To be able to do this practice in the moment,
moment. we need to make this surrender practice very
simple and direct and then repeat it a million
times each day. To reiterate this practice, we
get a clue from Mother’s Agenda on how the
cells of Her body practise the surrender:

“So the first sound of my mantra is the call to
that, the evocation. With the second sound, the
body’s cells make their’ surrender,’ they give
Let us absorb an insight by the Mother: themselves. And with the third sound comes
the identification of this [the body] with That,
“Meanwhile, we should acknowledge that which produces the divine life. These are my
we don’t have the key, it is not yet in our three sounds (7).”

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