If we can recall some of our younger years, the days we held our mom’s hands to cross the road, particularly when the road is with more traffic and we fear to cross alone. How readily we surrendered all our playfulness and obeyed mom and crossed. We have fully surrendered to our mom. To her principles, to her knowledge…That means we have let our mom to act on our behalf. That means we have let higher knowledge or intelligence act on us and lead us to cross the roads/hurdles. Sometimes our mom may not take us through the way we wished but ultimately that would be the safest way for us which only mom knows. Similarly, Mother may upset our plan. But it is only to ensure that SHE can execute HER plan for” us”.
Consecrating a work and doing it our own way to get the result we wished is not a consecration. It is telling Mother. A consecrated work should overflow with Mother’s aspects or principles derived from Mother’s twelve aspects. Inability to do that often will be justified by various reasons from psychological to sociological. If we can come out of those limitations of physical, vital, and mental attitudes we will be fully open to Grace.
To practice it in daily life all that we need to do is surrender our attitudes, behaviours, and desires to what we know as Mother’s principles. For example, when we say, this is a bad habit in me-forgetfulness is a bad habit in me- I have to refresh my memory and keep it alert. That means you are surrendering forgetfulness to memory.
Similarly being late or laziness annoys us and if we attain the punctuality for Mother’s sake, we are surrendering laziness to punctuality.
Dishonesty is given up in favour of honesty. Meanness can be surrendered to generosity.
Bad intentions can be surrendered to Goodwill. We often tell that,” I got angry for that…but surrendered it to Mother…etc”. If we analyse that statement we can notice that angry came in impulse and we have surrendered it only after a split minute of step back or calmness which is actually surrendering our anger to peace. You can’t surrender anger as anger itself.
Sri Karmayogi says to take a list of all that you have- that Mother don’t like- and surrender all those to opposite of it that Mother likes. Naturally for this -at the lowest level life responds and at higher level Mother responds. Even by human logic we can justify this. Assume that we are surrendering one of our incapacities to a capacity or skill we all know that it will sure bring some rewards.
In daily level we can say surrender is making an act divine. Doing work for ourselves is human. Doing it for divine is surrender. As “not my will, thy will” leads to surrender, doing an act as per thy principles is surrender. It is the process of bringing a spiritual element to an act to enable the spirit to take over and bring infinite power. Generally we neither trust our surrender or our object of surrender.
Surrendering to Mother and bringing Her values, principles, to every act is surrendering to Her and make Her intelligence act on us, enable express, Her through us for evolution. Evolution by all means is a progress. Any progress means prosperity.
So surrender is not giving your-self. It is getting Higher self.
So surrender is nothing of “me”. Everything of “Her”.
So surrender is for transformation that leads to- finally only one question- what are You preparing me for…MOTHER!
