“an absolute self-surrender to the Paratpara Purusha, the transcendent, infinite and universal Personality who is at once personal and impersonal, finite and infinite, self-limiting and illimitable, one and many, and informs with his being not only the Gods above, but man and the worm and the clod below. The surrender must be complete. Nothing must be reserved, no desire, no demand, no opinion, no idea that this must be, that cannot be, that this should be and that should not be;—all must be given. The heart must be purified of all desire, the intellect of all self-will, every duality must be renounced, the whole world seen and unseen must be recognised as one supreme expression of concealed Wisdom, Power and Bliss, and the entire being given up, as an engine is passive in the hands of the driver, for the divine Love, Might and perfect Intelligence to do its work and fulfil its divine Lila.”
Is such a Surrender possible before Realisation? Even after realising the Divine, is it easy to do that Surrender?
CWSA Vol. 13: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: The Yoga and Its Objects (Circa 1912) > The Yoga and Its Objects
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In fact, it is the path to realisation. All who have gone further have gone this way. Surrender is not needed after the realisation. It is needed for the realisation. The greater and completer the surrender, the higher and more integral the realisation. Of course, the gyana yogi does not believe much in surrender but on his own efforts, as the Gita puts it.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
