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Svadhyaya for June 28, 2014
Surrender
The
Gurudvaras (temples) of our Sikh Brethren do not enshrine a Murti, a
statue, but a great book, “Granth Sahib.” The Granth enshrines the teachings
and compositions of all ten Sikh Gurus. Every morning, the Sikh devotees go to
pay reverence and bow before it, as though they were bowing before a great
being.
Similarly,
when you are before Srimad Bhagavad Gita, you are not before a book; you are in
the presence of the great World Teacher, Lord Krishna, the Supreme Being. And
we should be like Arjuna saying; “I am at Your feet; I take shelter, I
surrender. Take me as Your disciple; teach me, I shall follow Your teachings.”
Then alone the wisdom teachings of Lord Krishna are evoked. When we put
ourselves before his Presence and say, “I surrender myself, guide me” it means
we must follow these ideals, these great principles, this supreme way of life
that He taught.
However,
after having surrendered and invoked the blessings, Arjuna begins to argue, to
contradict. It is the normal behaviour of the mind. It always wants the highest
truth, but when it is confronted with the truth, it does not want to accept it;
it wants to argue. You should not yield to the promptings of the lower mind;
the higher factor must be your guide. Your mind will argue, but at every step
you must say as Arjuna ultimately did: “I put myself under Your guidance. I
will do what you say – Karishye Vachanam Tava” [Gita 18.73]. This should
be the established state of our mind and heart within. If we are still not
established in that state. If we are still doubting, vacillating or
questioning, we are the losers. We must say: “I hand over the reins of my
chariot to You. You carry on.” „My‟ gives place to „Your‟. That is the essence
of dynamism based on Surrender.
We
should have that type of surrender. Surrender is not incompatible with
activity. It is our ego sense that we surrender, we surrender the idea “I am
doing.” We surrender our self-will, the desire nature, the activities of the
senses, and put ourselves into His hands, so that we act as He dictates, as He
teaches. When you put yourself under the will of God and His wisdom teachings,
then you are a self-controlled person. You will not allow the senses or the
mind to do whatever they wish. You will do that which is in accordance with the
will of God, the teachings of God and the saints. May God grant you the success
in your life of dynamic surrender and surrender-guided dynamism! This is divine
life.
Additional Reading:
Secret of Surrender By Swami Sivananda
Doctrine
of Prapatti By Swami Sivananda
The Yoga of the Liberation of the Spirit By
Swami Krishnananda
Forms of Sacrifices and Concentration By
Swami Krishnananda
Commentary on the Bhagavadgita (chap 18) By
Swami Krishnananda
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