Surrendering to Lord

Many a time this sentence or topic comes in spiritual discussion. Very often we hear some senior devotee or saints telling this "Surrender to god" or "Surrender at his lotus feet".

Even the very meaning of word Islam is "Surrender to Will of God".

When i was comprehending this statement "Surrender to Lord", i had debate within myself ...

First thought came to mind.. We should surrender our life to god .. then immediately second thought came saying ... this whole life is gift of God ..then how can i surrender back him his possession? We dont have any control over past nor future what can we surrender which is not in our control??

No then it cant be our life. Its his life , just we are experiencing it.

Moving a step a head.

First thought came to mind ,We should surrender our body to god. Here body means muscle power or our activities. Then immediately second thought came saying - this whole body is given by God then how can i surrender back him ? What ever service activities we do, it may be fasting, or community service its all because of his given strength , time and money. Then it cant be our body to be surrendered.

We need to surrender something else. What it can be?

When i went deeper, I thought we should surrender our mind , but again i was not fully satisfied with this thought. Surrendering mind means what?

Mind is just one of senses like eye , ear ..etc given by god. At best i can make my mind to be withdrawn in-ward and make it always contemplate on God's glory. Or i can keep my mind busy with chanting his name. But is this surrender? Spirituality lies far behind our senses and so mind.

Mind is just limited to worldly objects, so i can max control mind not to wander in this physical world.

With all limited knowledge i had , came to conclusion i dont have anything of my own which i can surrender to lord. All worldy objects we enjoy , our body ,our senses, our comforts ,our time , our energy ..etc every thing what we claim is ours is not really ours.

So what can i surrender to him?

I cant surrender anything to lord. Everything in this cosmos , things Chara ( living ) and Achara ( non-living) , seen ( Drashta) and un-seen ( Adrashta) is his property. Realizing that everything is his , and i am nothing and mine is nothing itself is surrender.

Accepting the fact that i dont have anything of my own and everything is him lord himself is surrender.

Realizing that i dont have anything to surrender itself is surrendering to lord.