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When to Surrender?
The day we first receive our Transmission and Master makes us come
alive to the real existence, in the life in life, that should also be
the moment when we should surrender that life to Him and the new life
that has come to us doesn’t belong to us because He has made it. He
has given us life. So it is His. If we are able to do this supreme act
of surrender at the moment of awakening to this existence, then the
whole thing is very easy. Because then we cease to exist, the moment
we come into existence. And now it is the Master’s business to look
after that which He has brought alive, like a mother looks after the
baby she has given birth to. It is not the baby’s business, it is the
mother’s business. Why? Because, she brought it into existence. So she
looks after it with care, with love, and devotion, as no other person.
A father is not able to do it. I don’t think a father can look after
the child in that way, that special way, you see, that maternal way
– “This thing has come from me. It is not only my creation, it is part
of myself. And if I neglect it, I neglect myself. If it dies, I die.”
So, for the Guru, for the Master who can master Transmission and give
it to us, our existence is His existence. And how can He not look after
us? How can He not protect us? How can He not make us grow into what
He is? It is not something grown from something into something else.
It is a growth of a child into an adult. A child is a human being, the
adult is still a human being, the old man is still a human being. So
the child of the Master must be a Master. If this grand and supreme
act of surrender can be done at the moment of awakening itself, then
there is His baby, which grows into an adult unknowingly, unintentionally,
unwillingly perhaps even in the sense that it has not the will to do
it, but it is a natural, spontaneous thing that a human child becomes
a human adult, very much like a monkey’s child becomes a monkey-adult.
And a Master’s child must become a Master-adult. I don’t see anything
difficult about it. Assuming that we are not able to do it at the moment
we are awakened, arise into His existence, well, we should endeavour
to do it at the earliest possible moment. And if we are able to achieve
that, then He starts taking care: ‘You are my son.’ Leave the rest to
Him.
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