For some people it's easy to surrender to let go of everything. Surrender leads to self-inquiry.
Automatically when you give everything up in your mind something answers you, or something tells you inside, "Who gives it up?" it comes by itself when you surrender.
It'll happen by itself.
Don't be afraid to let go, you'll never be alone.
The universe is your friend.
It will always take care of you if you do your part first.
That is to surrender and allow the universe to take care of you.
It's like the story of the man who went to a cave and he felt a
beautiful breeze coming from the cave.
He wanted to find the source of this beautiful breeze. He was a fat man weighed about four-hundred pounds. And there was a tiny hole in the cave he couldn't get through.
He was so enamored by a breeze and its fragrance he just had to find out the source of this breeze. So he went on a diet, he lost weight, he wouldn't eat and he still couldn't squeeze through. So he gave up everything.
He gave up his job, his home, his family. His only thought in his mind was, "I've got to find some of this breeze that smells and feels so beautiful." He wouldn't eat at all. But he was determined to find the site of the breeze.
He finally got down to a skeleton and he shoved his head through the hole in the cave and half of his body got stuck. He couldn't go in or out.
Finally he gave up.
He said, "I've done all I can. There is nothing more I can do."
Then the Self pulled him through the hole and he became self-enlightened, self-realized.
What this story means to us is when we
stop fighting so much,
stop trying to change things,
stop trying to make things happen and we let go, depending on God, on consciousness, on the absolute reality, then God will pull you through.
In other words you become self-realized. But as long as you rely on one person place or thing then you're alone fighting your battles.
This is why true spirituality is not for everyone.
For most people are not ready to let go of everything. They still want to hold onto things. So they get involved with spirituality and it makes them pure.
They become involved in various meditations, pranayamas, kundalini, tantra, not realizing all these things come from your mind.
They're all mental things and they will never lead you to self-realization.
They will only increase the size of your ego.
So true spiritual life is very easy.
You just need to surrender, let go of everything.
Take refuge in the Buddha or the Self or consciousness, whatever you like to call it.
It's all names. And you take refuge in this by not allowing the world to make you feel anything.
As long as this world makes you feel something good or bad, you're worldly, and you have battles to fight.
But when good and bad never impress you again, then you're free.
Only you can make that choice.
Robert Adams - 4/12/93
He wanted to find the source of this beautiful breeze. He was a fat man weighed about four-hundred pounds. And there was a tiny hole in the cave he couldn't get through.
He was so enamored by a breeze and its fragrance he just had to find out the source of this breeze. So he went on a diet, he lost weight, he wouldn't eat and he still couldn't squeeze through. So he gave up everything.
He gave up his job, his home, his family. His only thought in his mind was, "I've got to find some of this breeze that smells and feels so beautiful." He wouldn't eat at all. But he was determined to find the site of the breeze.
He finally got down to a skeleton and he shoved his head through the hole in the cave and half of his body got stuck. He couldn't go in or out.
Finally he gave up.
He said, "I've done all I can. There is nothing more I can do."
Then the Self pulled him through the hole and he became self-enlightened, self-realized.
What this story means to us is when we
stop fighting so much,
stop trying to change things,
stop trying to make things happen and we let go, depending on God, on consciousness, on the absolute reality, then God will pull you through.
In other words you become self-realized. But as long as you rely on one person place or thing then you're alone fighting your battles.
This is why true spirituality is not for everyone.
For most people are not ready to let go of everything. They still want to hold onto things. So they get involved with spirituality and it makes them pure.
They become involved in various meditations, pranayamas, kundalini, tantra, not realizing all these things come from your mind.
They're all mental things and they will never lead you to self-realization.
They will only increase the size of your ego.
So true spiritual life is very easy.
You just need to surrender, let go of everything.
Take refuge in the Buddha or the Self or consciousness, whatever you like to call it.
It's all names. And you take refuge in this by not allowing the world to make you feel anything.
As long as this world makes you feel something good or bad, you're worldly, and you have battles to fight.
But when good and bad never impress you again, then you're free.
Only you can make that choice.
Robert Adams - 4/12/93
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