Some Pearls to Pick

• The conception of the Guru as a spiritual mother promotes within us the feelings of love, reverence and surrender which are the main factors of a spiritual life. 
  
  
• When the thought of cooperation springs up in the abhyasi’s mind he has come up to the first state of surrender. 
  
  
• Surrender means the act of putting aside unwanted things, which are no longer necessary for our existence. 
  
  
• Upanishad means to sit at the feet of the Master. “Just sit at my feet, everything else I do for you.” And ‘sit at the feet’ doesn’t mean physically, but it is an act of surrender – “Master I am eternally with you.” 
  
  
• Discipline is the elementary step of surrender. 
  
  
• When you have surrendered, the question of doubt does not arise at all. So please give up doubting. 
  
  
• When we have surrendered all our belongings to the Master, we are free from the encumbering weight thereof. 
  
  
• Surrender is our duty. To make us evolve is his duty. 
  
  
• The right understanding of surrender is, that, by serving the Self, we can serve the whole of humanity. By serving the self, we are selfish, self-centred, avaricious, acquisitive, etc., etc. 
  
  
• Submission is the life of surrender. 
  
  
• Troubles can be overcome, happiness can be accepted, only when both are negated, both are accepted, and both are interiorized and forgotten. That is another aspect of surrender. 
  
  
• There is only one small difference between man and God. Man can surrender only once. After that he himself is not there to give anything more. What can he give? He cannot surrender a second time. But God gives Himself again and again through eternity, to eternal number of people. This is all the difference. 
  
  
• A true state of surrender makes absorbency possible. When there is absorbency in the Divine then every cell of the body becomes energy, and then that becomes its own absolute, that is, it becomes Divine!

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