Acharya Prashant: So, you are asking, ‘How to surrender’?
If I say you can surrender by jumping from that hill top, you won’t take the advice, right? It would be foolish advice if I say that. If I say, you can surrender by jumping into leaping flames, that is again an advice that you won’t take and would sound foolish coming from me.
We are discussing the question of ‘how to’ – how to surrender? So, this how to can obviously be nothing that you cannot do. Or that which you would not do. When you ask how to surrender, you are surely asking for a method that is acceptable to you. If I say you can surrender by jumping from the hilltop, this may be a method, but you will not use this method because this won’t be acceptable to you. So even when we are asking for methods, we are asking for methods that are..?
Questioners: (In unison) Acceptable to us.
Acharya Prashant: Acceptable to us. Who is this ‘me’ that will decide on the acceptability? Who is this ‘me’? This ‘me’ is ‘you’. This ‘me’ is exactly the ‘you’ that you want to get rid off by surrendering. So you are saying ‘I want to surrender the self by using methods that are acceptable to the self’. Now, such methods, will they be helpful in surrendering or will they rather continue the self? But that is what is so wrong with all methods of surrender and meditation. You will only choose the method that is acceptable to you and is thereby acceptable to your ego. There are so many methods, right sir? We all love particular methods, we say it is my personal choice to meditate using this method and that method.
