If you surrender, you have to surrender your individual will to the Divine, not just say, “I will not will.” When we say that everything I do is Divine, it means we’re not asserting our will as we have handed it over to various forces, but it’s a conscious and willing surrender—saying, “I will surrender my will to the Divine.” You want to do what the Divine wants, which is very different from doing anything and everything I want.
affectionately,
Alok Da
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