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July 2009 
~ Surrender
Posted on Jun 15th, 2009
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Attainment
Attainment
If one's parents are blind, and I will say all our parents were blind, then we too will be - and are - blind. We may have been born with physical eyes, but we have no sight, no inner vision. Everyone is acting blindly in every sense. And because of this blindness, many injustices have happened, many pains and injuries. And that sets within us a deep rooted thirst for revenge, a deeply ingrained desire for destruction, a deeply hidden animal within remains with man.
And not having the inner vision, the sight to see, being born of blind parents, not knowing our own nature, our true nature, the mind suffers from an inferiority complex. It is natural to suffer inferiority when you don't know your divine nature. And internally when the human mind considers itself inferior, then the way to counter this inferiority is to talk about one's greatness, one's righteousness. So something very dangerous can happen, one feels righteous and revengeful. And a good man who is suffering from an inferiority complex is worse than a bad man who is suffering from one. Because the good man is only good on the outside. Inside even he is not sure of himself. And when a man is not sure of himself, his goodness is not of the kind that will last for long. It is merely skin-deep. His righteousness is coming from his feelings of inferiority. His righteousness is a way to protect him from his ignorance of self-knowledge. And his own righteousness keeps him from knowing himself and healing the revenge and injustice he feels within. But if a bad person is self-confident, he can change any day, wholly.
And the difficulty is we are blind, but still born intelligent, and we rationalize our path, our way. We know we are inferior and we wish to become whole. But where there is intelligence there is doubt. And where there is rationality, there is the capacity to reason and develop one's perspective. So with intelligence and reason one will find it very difficult to enter any transforming situation with trust. And all situations can be transformative if there is trust. Instead, we struggle with every situation, with our inferiority, our righteousness, our need to destruct. And with our ability to rationalize every situation, we escape. We have become escapest. It is highly probable if you are intelligent and rational that you are also an escapest (big smile!).
Our ability to rationalize and reason what will happen has made it practically impossible to know ourselves. And we can only know ourselves if we know surrender. And when I say surrender, I mean surrender what you believe should or will happen or become. No situation ends in the way it begins. The end is always unknown. Most always what you think will happen does not happen. Life is a totally unknown journey. Whatsoever you believe will be the outcome will not be the outcome of any event. We can engage ourselves in reason and speculation and use our intelligence to shape our destiny, but we never can decide what it will be. The outcome will be something different. The outcome will be truth. We may within and without made bold determinations of what will be, but meanwhile the invisible, the unknown, keeps intervening and the entire story will have its own outcome. And the outcome will be truth. If you merely open your eyes and look, the truth is always happening, right this moment.
And wanting truth is the secret to surrender. Everybody says that they want truth, but nobody really wants it. But even if you put your whole power behind it, the untruth can never be victorious. Even if you devote your life (!), untruth cannot become true. And truth can initially look like a disaster, but in the end is always victorious. You can trust it! What is untruth can look like its going to end so well, everything will be what you ever hoped, and it ends in disaster. In hindsight you can look and see! Whatever you wanted, didn't happen. And what you never dreamed of, lands somehow in your lap!
So how when we are so intelligent are we to move in the unknown? The individual can never know. But if you surrender your will, if you surrender yourself, you can know immediately, instantly! You can become one with the outcome, with truth. An individual can never know the will of the whole as long as he is maintaining a personal outcome, a personal will on the whole. No attitude of imposing one's will upon the whole will make a difference to the truth. Not one bit of difference. The truth will always be victorious in the end. Therefore it is wise to always seek the truth, want the truth. And what is the truth? What is happening right now before your eyes. Just open them.
When an individual has surrendered his will, his eyes begin to open and there then is no need to know the will of the whole, because whatsoever is happening, whatsoever is taking place is the will of the whole. The individual is just playing a part in the truth. And if one can let go of himself and just be the witness of what is happening, releasing his idea of what 'should' be happening, then no responsibility lies upon his or her shoulders. (Ah!) They can be carefree and begin to enjoy the truth. But if you have a separate goal than truth, you will feel quite responsible for all that happens, and how can we not suffer from an inferiority complex if we are responsible for a ALL THIS????!!! (big big smile).
If you can surrender yourself totally, give up your ego, responsibility and feelings of inferiority - and they often go together - you become a part of the whole, the dance! Yes, you can fight, but you will only ruin yourself, and you ruin knowing what you are to the whole, you ruin knowing the will of the divine. Because, simply, the will of the whole, the will of existence is being fulfilled all the time. It is being fulfilled right this very moment. There is no way to alter its fulfillment.
There is no way to alter its fulfillment!
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