Surrender!

Aum Sairam

When you surrender to Sri Sai Baba, you leave all your problems behind because Sri Sai Baba Himself takes on the burdens which have distressed you for so long. However, you cannot consider surrender until you know what it is that you are surrendering.

There is much talk about surrender, but very few people really know what it means or what it implies. Surrender is a state or attitude of mind. You surrender your will to the will of Sri Sai Baba. You make the choice to let your whole life, everything you do, even every thought, be of His will, not yours. You do everything for and with Him.

You constantly ask yourself, "What would He like me to do in this instance?" Then you do it and you dedicate it to Him. You observe the result but you do not concern yourself with it. You accept every result as His will, knowing that only Sri Sai Baba sees and understands the whole picture and, therefore, only He can understand all that happens in the world.

True surrender brings you closer and closer to Sri Sai Baba, for you are in constant communion with Him during each day. Also, you begin to see Sri Sai Baba in everyone and everything, all around you, all the time, everywhere, always. That is the way to experience the omnipresent Sri Sai Baba.

True surrender will bring peace of mind, a permanent state of tranquility, because there can no longer be anything to worry about. All worries and apparent difficulties are immediately placed at the feet of Sri Sai Baba and He takes care of them. From that point on, they no longer concern you.

Once you have surrendered completely to Sri Sai Baba, you experience for the first time absolute freedom from the worries, problems and ills of this world. You can be happy and even laugh in apparent adversity. Whatever is happening is a game, Sri Sai Baba's game and you play your part and enjoy it.

But man has not surrendered! He lives almost entirely for himself and is ruled by his senses and his desires. He has no peace of mind and he will never experience it so long as he pursues that path. Desires, desires, desire, there is no end to them. It is an endless path.

Surrender to Sri Sai Baba, offer everything to Him and He will take care of you and all your needs. Experience the bliss that comes from unconditional surrender and leave behind for ever more the miseries and disappointments of the past.

The choice is yours, the timing is yours.

Allah Malik