Submission and Surrender

Submission and Surrender are the two means through which we can progress and attain layaawasta and realisation of the ultimate,the final goal of human life.

I would like to emphasise here, that whatever i shall speak here, today should be practised in your daily sadhana for your spiritual advancement.

Only after having a practical experience of its effectiveness can you appreciate it's significance .

Sri Babuji always emphasised that Submission is comparatively difficult than Surrender.However he never theoretically never explained to me , what submission really meant. When and how should it be made? what sort of condititons and experiences the abyasi passed through when he attempted submission to him.

I was intending to speak to you all on this aspect since long, so that a craving for the same may also devlop in your inner.Today i can'nt restrain any longer the reason being that when a child gets something unique he/she naturally desires and becomes impatient to tell about it to all her brother's and sisters. Similarly i would like to share this with all of you and probably Sri bauji maharaj also wants me to explain this aspect to all his abyasi children.

Submission in hindi means 'Atma Nivedan'. Abyasis consider it to be an offering of all their material wealth, either physical or mind related which find and expression externally.

Master has revealed to me what it really meant through succesive divine experiences , how significant it is .

'Atma Nivedan' really means 'Offering of self' or 'I' to sri babuji maharaj, the 'I' which is offered is free from all worldly bondages, physical & material. It is infact that 'I' or 'self' is linked to the soul.

A submission from 'ATMA', when filled in completely with the feeling that is from the heart, becomes natually automatic & effortless.

This is infact a divine blessing which the abyasi receives from Sri Babuji maharaj as a reward for his inner submission.

Sri Babuji maharaj said 'be submissive to your goal which is the key for the brightest spiritual advancement. To narrate my own spiritual experience in such a condition, i may tell you that at this stage it appears that i belong to someone else-to Sri Babuji maharaj , and gradually this feeling becomes a reality and i say 'he is mine' and ' i'am his '. Then the words, i can speak before him are simply this,'whatever i'am, how so ever i'am, i'am yours.Thereafter, the above feeling and our daily routine of life,both get gradually mergedand drowned in his shower of lovein such a way that the real meaning 'I' is also forgotten and whatever are uttered susequently, they appear to be flowing from 'ATMA' which itself speaks that 'i'am your's. that is the real condittion of 'atma nivedan'.

The other unique aspect of subission is that this physical body loses it's significance of name & form and subsequently the object with which our physique is connected also gets lost. For instance, when i wrote to Sri Babuji that 'there is no relevance of subtle or casual body for me', he then wrote to me that the body has it's form & name, but when the object of it has gone out of the mind, then how could i be conscious of my subtle & causal bodies.

He furthur told me about another unique divine condition-'forgetfullness' ,which is bestowed by him to the abyasi again as a reward for his 'submission' to him. In this conditon as he wrote to me, as i also experienced the same, ' you will not be able to recollect any living being or have memories of anyone, how so ever close he/she may be to you unless you are especially reminded about it' . I also felt the same ,when i wrote to him that 'i'am completely drowned in his divine showers and not consious of my own being,then how could i be consious of or see the physique of anyone else.

In this condition when i spoke to any abyasi i felt that HE was calling his name through my mouth.I could become aware of it when the abyasi expressed his experiences that he felt good & i had talked to him nicely.

This condition can again be the result of 'living in the submissive mood'. Subsequently, this feeling also vanishes and the need for 'atma nivedan' is also not felt anymore. It is so bacause when Sri Babuji maharaj has accepted the atma nivedan of his abyasi children, thereafter it appears that offer of atma is getting laya or lost in paramatma. The soul then turns into it's real form of jivatma after it's 'SAM ARPAN'. This is the beginning of surrender.It automatically goes on and the abyasi gets the experience of merging 'ATMA TATV' in 'PARAMATMA TATV' .

Now you may be inclined to know what happenes after the surrender of self is over.So, i may tell you that after this, the abyasi gets drowining effect and is bestowed the condition of 'Sahaj Gati' by Sri Babuji maharaj .

After providing a darshan of these conditions and feelings which subsequently become laya in Sri babuji maharaj the abyasi begins to have the inner feeling of the condition of 'SAHAJ SAMADHI' in his inner.

The greatest effect & experience of Sri Babuji maharaj's teaching is that the feelings & glory of divine conditions flow in him and all experiences also become laya in him.
I hope you realise how difficult it is to express in words the work of master.Realise that silently though efficiently he takes us, abyasis, forward towards the ultimate goal of life.
As an abyasi advances on the spiritual path, he/she experience the successive divine conditions.
However, if you would write and express your own conditions,you remaine quite unaware of the fact whether you were writing your own condition or just describing the condition of conditions.

Dear brother's & sister's, do keep in mind what the master said,"i have asked the abyasis to live always in a meditative mood  & only this should be their daily abyas".
Remain in laya with the rememberance of the divine, performing all daily activities.

Also,"Whenever you feel the presence of Sri babuji, in your inner or around you, and feel his divine transmission, allow your whole system to be completely drowned in it".

The significance of such practice or living in a meditative mood, is that you shall enjoy the benefit meditation,of being in constant rememberance and surrender.
This is infact, the reward from Sri babuji for the successsful efforts of the abyasis.
In addition to this reward, master also brings a change in the abyasi which may be defined as an 'act of theft'.
You may wonder what is this reward and  theft?

Reward,  it is because sri babuji maharaj appears in our inner with full divinity as a result of our submission & surrender.
An act of theft, because he steals from our inner, 'our ego' and we never notice or feel we have lost anything, hence an act of theft.
The truth being, he makes his appearance consiously and we feel and experience it, losing unconsiously what we never dreamt about.
With the attainment of this spiritual condition we begin the first step of our yatra to the Ultimate-Anant yatra.

I 'am confident, that my brother's & sister's will also pass through the very divine conditions that i have, which repeatedly call in my inner, for all abyasis, they will be blessed with the blissful condition of layaawasta in sri babuji maharaj.
Then your heart will become a mirror in which you can see anyone with purity  & clarity.This will automatically lead you in developing 'Brotherhood' with all it's purity as master has said, 'In my mission, Universal Brotherhood' is it's life'.
I have also experienced that without attaining a condition whatever transformation we adher to only remains externally.Hence we should always drown in the divine present in our inner,which will enable you to acheive all the conditions essential in sadhana.
Babuji said, 'connect yourself through you Dhyan with him, who is full of divivne fragrance, then you will definetly reap the highest results'.
HE also said, love cannot be expressed in words, it is a reality which cannot be explained.

May you all be blessed with the capability to make submission and to surrender, your very existence and be blessed with his divine grace.It is my earnest prayer to him.
My best wishes and blessings to all.