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Surrender
is Essential for Divine Grace
Hindustan Times
“Refuge
in the divine power alone can rid you of all your
sufferings. To attain this one has to learn to be calm
despite the hustle-bustle around us. It is a supreme secret
which one learns on receiving brahm jnana. All religious
scriptures mention this secret and eulogise its glory and
splendour.
The
secret is not written on paper; instead it is to be found
within you. It needs to be taught and revealed to you by a
perfect spiritual master. It is manifested in the human
body. It is taught by God himself in his saguna swarupa. And
it is through this supramental divine experience, that one
learns the eternal technique of worship. The scriptures say
it is the only way to consecrate actions to God. It is
through this eternal path that the seeds of shraddha and
samarpan sprout.
Faith and
surrender provide the required lubrication for
self-transcendence. Once in the presence of God, unrest in
all forms disappear: Just as the blazing fire turns fuel
into ashes, similarly the fire of brahm jnana turns all
actions to ashes. In the knowledge of brahman lies the
solution to all human maladies. This jnana is incomplete
without the cosmic vision of God at the time of initiation
by a true sage. Ruysbroeck, a realized soul from the West
once said: " He only is fit to contemplate the divine light
who is slave to nothing, not even to his virtues." Such is
the intensity of faith and surrender that is needed for
receiving divine grace.The two will come up on getting
initiated into the trans-sensuous knowledge of the Supreme.
Nobody on
this earth can lessen the karmic bondage except omnipotent
God whose infinite power is always ready to provide one with
the eternal techniques of calling, remembering and
worshipping him. I am talking of the eternal knowledge which
Draupadi had. It was her jnana which saved her from the
humiliation wreaked on her by the Kauravas and brought God
to her rescue. It was a complete reliance on her spiritual
master that saved her. Such faith flows out naturally on
initiation into brahm jnana by a genuine preceptor.”
SURRENDER IS ESSENTIAL FOR DIVINE GRACE
Hindustan Times
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