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Remembrance Makes Surrender Possible
Constant remembrance makes us forget ourselves. When we forget ourselves,
we forget our problems, our pains, our sufferings. And at the same time,
because of our remembering him, love for him grows. Love becomes established
and surrender becomes possible. When surrender is established there
is nothing left to do. So you see, constant remembrance helps us in
two ways. Now if we are remembering ourselves, we suffer everything
that we have suffered. Headache is worse, stomachache is worse, everything
is worse, and also we begin to hate ourselves and hate Him also. Because
the more we remember ourselves and the more we suffer, we hate ourselves
for our suffering and we hate the Master who we think is giving us the
suffering.
So remembering ourselves creates two negative benefits – Hatred for
ourselves, hatred for the Master because we blame him for giving us
everything. Remembering Him gives us double benefit – removes our suffering
and makes surrender possible. So that is the great technique which Master
has evolved. But it must be constant. Not constant remembrance for five
minutes a day! Babuji has said if any one can do constant remembrance
for one week then he cannot stop it. So all that we require is one week
practice.
Very often people ask, “If I am to think of the Master or remember
him all the time who will do my work?” This is what happens: you are
now like a machine, you love the Master and your body does the work
automatically and because the Master is working through you, the work
is as he wants it to be, please remember carefully, it is as he wants
it to be. You cannot say it is perfect, you cannot say it is good, you
also cannot say it is bad. It is what it has to be. That is the way
of the Nature, you see.
Surrender only means letting go of this egocentric hold that we have
upon this material existence, thinking it to be ours, thinking that
we have the ability to control it, direct it, regulate it, when we have
none of these abilities, and letting a superior power take charge of
it, saying, “Lord, I cannot do it, you do it for me.” When I involve
myself totally in His work, thinking only of the work, forgetting results,
forgetting my health, forgetting my body, forgetting my income, forgetting
everything else, don’t you think it is a physical or objective presence
of that state of surrender?
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