January 9, 2013 – True Surrender Enlarges You

Knowledge is a child with its achievements;
for when it has found out something,
it runs about the streets whooping and shouting;
Wisdom conceals hers for a long time in a thoughtful and mighty silence.

Sri Aurobindo

(Thoughts and Aphorisms 111)

True Surrender Enlarges You

By surrender we mean…… a spontaneous self- giving, a giving of all your self to the Divine, to a greater Consciousness of which you are a part. Surrender will not diminish, but increase; it will not lessen or weaken or destroy your personality, it will fortify and aggrandise it. Surrender means a free total giving with all the delight of the giving; there is no sense of sacrifice in it. If you have the slightest feeling that you are making a sacrifice, then it is no longer a surrender. For it means that you reserve yourself or that you are trying to give, with grudging or with pain and effort, and have not the joy of the gift, perhaps not even the feeling that you are giving. When you do anything with the sense of a compression of your being, be sure that you are doing it in the wrong way. True surrender enlarges you; it increases your capacity; it gives you a greater measure in quality and in quantity which you could not have had by yourself.

The Mother

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