Surrender - Part 3

Dear Ones, 

The previous post ended with the question, why in the path of devotion, the surrender as explained – “Laying down the body, mind, heat and soul at the feet of Lord” does not happen.

WHY????

Because

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 ………….( Let us know what He says, in the next post)

Love.