O’ Lord ! O’ My Lord ! May I never forget You !
|| Shri Hari ||
Surrender to God
Swami Ramsukhdas
|| Shri Hari ||
Surrender to God
tvameva mata cha pita tvameva
tvameva bandhuscha sakha tvameva |
tvameva vidyaa dravinam tvameva
tvameva sarvam mama devadeva ||
Swami Ramsukhdas
|| Shri Hari ||
Surrender to God
The Lord urges a man to surrender all actions to Him because, he considers the body, senses, mind, intellect, life-breath, material and actions, his own and for himself. But in fact, these are neither his nor can be his. How can the perishable have affinity for the imperishable ? Therefore, surrender all actions either to the world or to nature or to God, the result will be the same, as the world is an evolute of nature and God is the Lord of nature. Thus, both the world and nature, belong to God. Therefore, a striver should think that he is God’s and his so-called possessions, are also God’s i.e. he should renounce his feeling of mineness to these. In that case, he has to expect nothing, either from the world or from God. The Lord Himself looks after his wants (needs). When a striver surrenders his body etc., to Him, these do not seem to him to be his own. If these appear to him to be his own, it means that he has not surrendered them to Him. Therefore, the Lord exhorts a striver to surrender these to Him, with a discriminative insight. Thus, when a striver surrenders these to God, he comes to know the truth that in fact, these are the Lord’s, not his.
The fact of surrender to God is so unique, that even if we surrender out of feeling of surfeit, it brings us immense benefit. In fact, actions, objects, the body and the self, are not one’s own. Actions can be surrendered even after their accomplishment. But real surrender is achieved only when we renounce our affinity with objects and actions. This abandonment is possible when we discern that instruments (body etc.,) objects, actions, while the embodied self, are only God’s. A striver commits an error that he tries to surrender actions and objects to God, but he does not surrender his body etc., and the self to Him. Thus his surrender remains incomplete. Therefore, a striver should think that all objects including his body, senses, mind, intellect and the Self belong to God, which are really His.
A mere outward renunciation of actions and objects, is not real surrender. Real surrender, consists in regarding the objects and possessions as the Lord’s. If a striver surrenders these to God by regarding these as his own, the Lord reciprocates by returning these manifold, in the same way, as seeds sown, turn into a rich harvest. But, still it is in a limited amount. However, when a striver surrenders these to the Lord, regarding them as the Lord’s, God offers Himself to the striver and also feels indebted to him.
The Lord is very much pleased with such a surrender, even when it does not help the Lord, in anyway. But in doing so, the striver is released from the bondage of actions. When a child hands over the key lying in a courtyard, to the father, the latter is very much pleased with the baby and wishes him a long life. Why? The reason is, that the child has good feelings, when offering the key to the father, even though the key belong to the father. Similarly, God is pleased with a striver, who offers all objects, the body and himself to the Lord. God becomes indebted to the striver.
Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayan !!!
From ‘Surrender to God’ by Swami Ramsukhdasji published in ‘Kalyan Kalpataru’ Edition - April 2015.
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