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Originally Posted by HITESH SHAH
Points raised here are superb and very much helpful .
Just to add to the points raised for more clarification , people at times fear the words like 'surrender' . Many a times people fill we surrender to someone with gun pointing to our head and we surrendering is something very dreadful situation and thereby they abhor the 'surrender' to God . So 'surrender' here means more 'devotion' with love to God just like lovers in a romantic situation let the lover play or parents playing with their little kids allowing kids even to kick or even slap the parent in the play. So the key word here is love / devotion. In Hinduism its called Bhakti (process of staying connected /associated with God ). We need to view the word 'surrender' in this light.
Further many a times people dread the word emptiness . Above post rightly mentions emptiness is fullness . Just to stress this point further Emptiness is emptiness of material differences of manifestations and thereby resulting separation which realizes the fullness / wholeness of underlying common unifying factor .
As long as there is life the duality and resulting separation is going to be there and there is no need for arbitrarily discarding those differences . The need is to increase our vision and ability to see the underlying commonality and act accordingly with love which pierces the veil of separation and creates joy for all in the play called life.
This is gradual and evolutionary and possible only with continuity , persistence ,perseverance , intelligence , faith ,honesty and hardwork.
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Thanks,
HITESH SHAH. You are right - people may not like words such as
surrender and
emptiness, because in everyday life surrender has connotations of weakness and helplessness, while emptiness has connotations of something bleak and meaningless.
Whereas on the spiritual journey surrender is the willingness to let go of that which is small and limited in order to experience a greater reality. And as you say, love is the key to surrender. And emptiness is that state without qualities which allows all things to be, which is our own nature.
Peace