Monday, 23 March 2009
The Fear of Surrender
As we take to this process more and more we can start to get a little fearful.
The fear comes from the understanding that you have to surrender more and more.
Surrender what?
Primarily it is to surrender our independence and take shelter of the Lord and His pure devotee.
We like to be in control, in charge, making things happen.
But actually if we analyse our lives closely we will see that we could not even get out of bed if there were no higher authorities helping us.
Surrender to be free.
This might sound like an oxymoron but it is the motto of our movement.
Surrender to Krsna to become free from the miseries of unrestricted senses, the mind, contaminated intelligence and most important of all... the false ego.
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