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Surrender Through Love
He can only respond in the way in which we accept him. When we fragment
him, and accept him partially, he can only respond partially. When we
accept him totally, his responsibility for us becomes total. This is
why surrender epitomizes the absolute acceptance of the Master. Then,
because we are totally his, he is totally ours, he looks after us totally,
every aspect of our existence becomes his responsibility and we can
live in that sublime innocence where we are desire-free, where we are
fear-free, where we are even need-free because he is looking after us.
So, how to achieve that state? There again the miracle is, only by love
we can surrender, not by fear. Of course, in the armies we surrender,
to a thief on the streets we surrender our belongings. But between two
human beings surrender is an act of love, not fear, not temptation.
In Sahaj Marg we must lead a natural life, people must get married,
have children, support them, look after them, love them and sacrifice
for them. Of course, they also sacrifice for us, isn’t it? So a family
makes a mutual love possible and because of that love, sacrifice becomes
possible. Now why is this important for Sahaj Marg? Because you have
to love the Master. Here the goal is represented by the Master because
we believe the Master is Divinity come in human form to help us. And
why He comes in human form? Because we cannot recognize a God which
does not exist before us. So He comes in a form which we can... like,
you know, sitting with him, talking with him, eating with him and slowly
we learn to love him, which only means we take Him into our heart, because
this love is not the human love, it is the spiritual love where the
devotee takes the Master into his or her heart.
Now, only when we have love can we sacrifice. So, what is it we sacrifice
for the Master? You sacrifice yourself, which is called surrender. So
this surrender is impossible without total love. Therefore, without
family existence, even though we have to love the wife, the husband,
the children, the uncle, the mother, the father, everybody, we have
to love them in such a way that we can leave them mentally. Therefore
we live in the family, we look after them, love the Master, or try to
love him, slowly, little by little, and then this detachment happens
from the family. They are still ours, they are still our children, our
parents, but the heart belongs only to the Master. Therefore my Master
said, “Our relationship with the people of the world should be nominal.”
So you see, that our love here must be just enough for us to fulfill
our duties. Slowly, the duty remains but the love is transferred to
the Master.
Now happens a very miraculous thing, because your love is transferred
to the Master and sometimes we are lost in that love, you see, we cannot
remember anything. The Master takes over our duties, this is the miracle
of Sahaj Marg, not some crude way of, if you do this, you will have
that; if you do that, you will have this – that’s very crude and that
is commercial. But what the Master says is, “This poor lover of mine,
devotee of mine is thinking all the time of me. So I must see that his
work does not suffer.”
By surrendering the love that we receive, we keep uninterrupted the
cyclical flow of love. When we surrender this to Master, the mighty
ocean of His love is swelled, ever more and more, until it too merges
into the Universal repository of Divine Love. From there the Universal
power of the Master showers it abundantly back on all humanity of which
we too are a part, and we thus derive our love-sustenance from it! Thus
a cycle of love is established by which we derive increasingly more
and more of the love that we surrender to Him – provided we do not selfishly
treasure the love that we receive and lock it up for ourselves in our
little hearts in miserly fashion. If, unfortunately we do this, then
the love that we receive stagnates and finally corrupts us and thus
does a disservice to those who had given us generously of their love.
The acme of surrender, is therefore, the surrender of the love we receive,
and it is this which brings about a state of spiritual surrender in
us. It is not merely a duty to surrender all the love that we receive,
to the Master, it is the real way of surrender itself! This is true
surrender.
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