Surrender to the Higher Power and It will take over your activities and results
Talk 53. Who is this 'I'? To whom is the doubt?
Talk 52. Clear & Dull Mind, Individual soul after death, What is Meditation

Surrender to the Higher Power and It will take over your activities and results

 

An American gentleman, Mr. J. M. Lorey, has been staying in the Asramam for about two months.
He asked:
D.: I am leaving tonight. It gives me pain to tear myself away from this place. But I must go to America. I ask for a message from the Master. The Master understands me even better than I do myself. So I pray for a message to keep me up when I am away from the Master.
M.: The Master is not outside you as you seem to imagine. He is within, is in fact the Self. Recognize this truth. Seek within you and find Him there. Then you will have constant communion with Him. The message is always there; it is never silent; it can never forsake you: nor can you ever move away from the Master.

Mr. Lorey was struck by the answer although he was already familiar with the Master’s ways. He was even visibly moved. He prayed that the Grace of the Master might abide with him.

Sri Bhagavan: The Master being the Self, Grace is inseparable from the Self.

D.: I am a partner in an Engineering firm. But it is not of vital concern to me. I try to bring spiritual ideals into the work-a-day life of the firm.
M.: That is good. If you surrender yourself to the Higher Power all is well. That Power sees your affairs through. Only so long as you think that you are the worker you are obliged to reap the fruits of your actions. If on the other hand, you surrender yourself and recognize your individual self as only a tool of the Higher Power, that Power will take over your affairs along with the fruits of actions. You are no longer affected by them and the work goes on unhampered.

Whether you recognize the Power or not, the scheme of things does not alter. Only there is a change of outlook. Why should you bear your load on the head when you are traveling on a train? It carries you and your load whether the load is on your head or on the floor of the train. You are not lessening the burden of the train by keeping it on your head but only straining yourself unnecessarily. Similar is the sense of doership in the world by the individuals.

 

Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi
17th August, 1938
Talk 503.

Talk 53. Who is this 'I'? To whom is the doubt?
Talk 52. Clear & Dull Mind, Individual soul after death, What is Meditation
Surrender to the Higher Power and It will take over your activities and results
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