Self-Surrender

1. A line is curved and shaped to make the letters of the alphabet. The letters of the alphabet form words and the words are put together to make poetry, prose, and essays.
2. There are many books of spiritual science, the Vedas, mythological books, many poems, explanations, and translations of many texts. There are so many texts it is not possible to name them all.
3. There are many sages with many opinions. It can easily be seen that there are innumerable languages and texts to be found everywhere. What opinion is missing in written literature?
4. There are many sub-divisions of the Upanishads, of various texts compiled by sages, various religious texts, many types of poetic forms, and various standards of writing with many different names.
5. There are many types of songs, many verses, many types of meter, many ballads, many short verses, many poems, all with many names to identify them.
6. There are various types of singing with drums and string instruments. There are many types of songs of narrations, songs for different occasions, festive songs, and folk songs.
7. There are many types of musical sounds, loud acclamations, the sounds of bells and cymbals with rhythmic tunes, and many forms of speech. There are many differences in types of sound, music and speech that can be heard.
8. There is the Para speech which is the subtlest sound in the form of an inspiration, the Pashyanti speech which is the subtle inner sound beginning to take form at level of the heart, the Madhyama speech at the throat where words take the form of a soft whisper, and the Vaikhari speech where the tongue pronounces many word jewels.
9. There is the three and a half syllables of the AUM from which the letters and sounds of the alphabet come forth.
10. There are many differences in the moods of music, many different forms of dancing, musical rhythms, melodies, and different interpretations of philosophical knowledge and analysis.
11. Understand that among all of the principle elements, the main element is pure Sattva. The half crescent mark in the OM symbol () is representative of the great original element that the Primal Illusion.
12. The small and large elements together make up the eight bodies as well as the eight-fold manifest world appearance that is of the nature of wind which disappears.
13. When the wind disappears there is only empty sky. In the same way, only the solid Parabrahman remains when the eight bodies are thrown off.
14. There is the creation and destruction of the universe and the physical body (each consisting of four bodies, eight in all), but Pure Brahman is seen to be different from these when looking into what is Eternal and what is ephemeral.
15. Objects are inert, the Self is moving, and Pure Brahman is still and unmoving. When this is analyzed and clearly understood, the inert and the moving are immediately dissolved into the one form of Brahman.
16. On the level of the inanimate, the gross or objective aspect of self-surrender is knowing that all objects, the mind, the body, one's speech, and everything referred to as "me" or "mine," belongs entirely to God.
17. At the level of the moving, the Lord of the Universe is the doer of all that is moving and changing. All living beings are but a fraction of him. All is his, and all is only him. There is no trace of "me" in him.
18. The description of self-surrender that is the surrender of everything that is moving has now been told. There is no place where God who is the doer of everything does not exist.
19. That which is of the nature of change and motion is insubstantial like the form of a dream. At the level of the unmoving, the unmoving God is formless. Understand that the third aspect of self-surrender relates to this.
20. Where there is no trace of movement, how can any initial sense of "I" arise? Self-surrender that is of the nature of the unmoving is revealed through the power of discrimination like this.
21. In all three modes of self-surrender, the sense of oneself as a separate individual is not there. There is no sense of "other." When one does not exist oneself, there is no sense of "I" to be found anywhere.
22. By seeing again and again, one comes to the eventual conclusion of knowing and understanding. Once one's seeing is complete, one becomes calm and silent and even speech comes to an end.