SURRENDER
You cannot Experience it
Generally in a pleasurable activity, both You and Enjoyment will be there. Eg tasting food, or watching a movie. In Spirituality this is not the case. Anubavam (experience) happens only after You have disappeared. Illadhadha perardhe anubhavam. Getting what you don’t have is Experience. Just the yekkam, yearning is enough. You cannot lose yourself since you’ll want to be there to enjoy. The mind won’t let you go. You can’t do it by yourself. Surrendering to the Master will make it happen.
Take dreams for example. Whether it is good or bad, both you allow, you watch. There is a system that lets you watch it without your permission! You are forced to dream. Similarly, it is that same system that forces us to live through all types of situations (referring to the Ego). That is why it takes us to certain situations but when it is time to face consequences it disappears. Body, mind and soul are all affected by this culprit. Feel this first. Would you want to stay in it trapped or liberate yourself? From outside someone has to force you to observe. It has to become your biggest problem.
Only in a crisis you will notice the culprit. That’s why the Master keeps inventing crisis after crisis. He only wants you to know you are in a trap. To know not by thinking but through experience. You should have a yearning, thirst, dhagam that I should become free. I am trapped. It is a very subtle inner trap; so subtle that only after all the damage is done I even know.
Frustration-hell is the door to heaven. I’m trying to give you more understanding so you come closer to surrender. When you surrender, nee illama pova (You will disappear). Nee illama poradhu venuma? Illa Nee illama pora payirchi venuma? Do you want to disappear or do you want to practice disappearing?
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