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".
No then it cant be our life. Its his life , just we are experiencing it.
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.
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 At best i can make my mind to be withdrawn in-ward and make it always contemplate on God's glory.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?
4 comments:
hi it is really a very nice attempt to bring beauty of surrender:
usually surrender happens when someone puts his head into somebody’s feet, it is dropping the head, (the prestige, the position, the power, the name, the fame ) and putting the head in somebody’s feet or remain headless. When we say, "I surrender", “I” the ego in us is surrendered. And when the ego in us is surrendered, when the head is dropped at some body's feet, then the purpose and the chasing behind the result and the attachment to it become meaning less ? When the ego is dropped at somebody else feet how can one think about the purpose and result? Who will think about it? It means, "Now I am not concerned with the result, I am not concerned with the future, I am not concerned with myself at all."
When surrender happens in us, immediately there also happens divinity in us. We become divine.Surrender and divinity always move together.Surrender doesn't depend on the object. It can be stone, it can be a tree, it can be anything. It is a quality that brings in our being. The effort to surrender brings an opening in us. Surrender gives us the eyes, and anything that is viewed by these eyes becomes divine. Divinity is a quality given by surrendering. This what happening in India, we worship our vehicles, we worship trees, rivers. Even a road side stone not even a statue, which has no value,
we can make a god out of it immediately. No artist is needed. Because surrender is the art.
Man is very tricky. We think, “when Krshna is there, we will surrender." And thus we have postponed the Surrender for millions of our lives and we go on searching for the happening of Krshna. we have force "Krshna to happen by our surrendering. Surrender is like an alladin lamp and with that we can make our Krshna happen and if we wait krshna to happen first and surrender to him, then we have to go on waiting for Krshna for millions of lives, we will never meet him, because we don't have the quality which can meet, which can find him. And it becomes impossible because Krshna is there only if we surrender. Man has to Surrender because we are the seed, Krshna is the manifestation. We are the potential; he is the actuality.
Hello Siva vasant,
Dropping of our head at some one's feet is surrender.But as a human nature we start hammeing saying I have surrendered , I have surrendered ... this very ACT itself will pop up our ego ..tht i have surrendered to some one.
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