July, Thursday 16th., 2020
The Thought for the Day
16 Jul 2020
What is real surrender and what is not? Bhagawan lovingly teaches us today.
The Thought for the Day
16 Jul 2020
What is real surrender and what is not? Bhagawan lovingly teaches us today.
The
word surrender has been misinterpreted and people promote idleness in
the name of surrender. We think that our mind, thought, and body have
been surrendered to the Lord. Your mind is not under your own control
and under such circumstances, how can you hold it and give it to the
Lord? You have no control over your own body. If you have a small cut,
blood oozes from your body and you run to a doctor. If this is your body
and if you have complete control over it, why is it that you are not
able to control the outflow of the blood? That being the case, to say
that you have surrendered your mind and body to the Lord is a statement
which is untrue. This word ‘surrender’ conveys that there is someone who
gives and someone who accepts, and that you are surrendering to
someone. There is a feeling of duality implied in this word surrender.
The true meaning of surrender is the recognition of the fact that in
everyone and everywhere God is present.
- Ch 3, Summer Showers, 1974