Sri Ramana Maharshi

Surrender - Part 4

Sairam,

Let us pick up from where we ended last.

‘All the spiritual practice listed above is undertaken by the devotee with his mind very much present and every action in the spiritual path as well as in practical life is undertaken with the basis ego that I AM THIS BODY, I AM THIS PERSON, I AM SO AND SO, whereas the second summary point on surrender says, Surrender means Surrendering the “I” the ego, the notion of that I am this body, mind, intellect to Lord which means, post surrender, one has no cognition of one’s body, mind and intellect as they have already been surrendered to Lord.

The devotee is thus stuck up and even after decades of routine devotional practice, the sense of surrender is not experienced by him because, all the while, he has never been able to eliminate… ne…. transcend the little ego of identifying himself with his body, mind, intellect, his impressions, his likes, his dislikes etc.

So, some thing has to happen in devotion, which can act as a link between devotion and Surrender. The  devotion must lead the devotee to some thing, some experience, so over whelming, so complete, so fulfilling, that he is able to forget his ego permanently.

What is that??? What is that???? What is that experience???? O Swami, reveal, tell me the secret, O Sai……..

Swami is moved by the devotee’s sincere earning for the answer and turns to the devotee and says…………

And here, Swami says / Swami answers/ Swam reveals the secret of ONE SINGLE ASPECT, ONE SINGLE THING WHICH MUST HAPPEN IN DEVOTION, WHICH IS  THE LINK BETWEEN DEVOTION AND SURRENDER THROUGH HIS OWN WORDS BELOW:

On meditating on the above words of Swami, one realizes thus: 

As long as devotion is in the form of emotion, pouring out one’s emotion to the lord on one side but also keeping one’s own identity (EGO), surrender is impossible.

But when the devotion in the form of emotion evolves and matures to devotion as manifestation of LOVE FOR GOD, in that ocean of love, all our emotions, all our ego, all our notions about our body, mind, senses - MUST GO AND THEY DO GO, THEY DO GET DILUTED IN THE OCEAN OF LOVE, JUST LIKE THE DOLL MADE OF SALT, GETS TOTALLY DILUTED WHEN IT JOINS AN OCEAN.

More on THE LOVE FOR GOD, IN NEXT POST.

Love.