Newsletter #6, by Rajni (10 Jun, 2012)

JBS

Hey,

I have tried to follow the attached format for the Meditation Newsletter.

I have more quotations, but for some reason, I was attracted to these 3 quotations as I think the biggest difficulty for Sadhaks (including myself) is to surrender completely even after X years of practising Samarpan Meditation.

Hope this Newsletter is OK.

Thank you,

Take care’

Rajni

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Samarpan Online Group Meditation Newsletter

1. FOCUS for the week – Swamiji’s words of inspiration on Samarpan / Surrender

“Imagine that there is a bottle, filled right up to the top with dirty water. You visit a temple and bow down and a few drops of the dirty water are spilled. Then you bow down again, a few more drops are spilled. But the bottle cannot be emptied by spilling just a few drops here and there. As long as you don’t empty the bottle completely, pure and holy air cannot enter into it.

You may empty the bottle at any place — in front of a hill, or before a tree. If you wish you can even empty it before a stone. If you want, you can empty it before some person, before a donkey, before a horse, before a cow — empty it somewhere at least. Bow down completely, bow down completely!

You are throwing out the garbage when you bow. When you are throwing out your garbage, you don’t need to decide whether you will throw it in a green colored dustbin or a red colored dustbin. In exactly the same way, just surrender yourself somewhere, anywhere, but surrender completely. And wherever you surrender yourself, you will become completely pure. As soon as your bottle becomes empty, it will be filled automatically with sacred air. You don’t need to do anything, just empty yourself.”

” I call “Samarpan” that state when you have no thoughts either of the past or the future. The day you reach such a state, you will have total “Samarpan”. You will be free of surrendering to the past, past illnesses, bad incidents, and bad people of the past. When you succeed in wiping out the poison of the past, you will be completely empty. The urn filled with nectar is right within you and you will experience the scent. First of all it is necessary to remove the poison within you. The meaning of “Samarpan” is that you should not get any thoughts of the past.”

Surrender your past to me today. If you succeed in doing so, you will have a grand tomorrow. Surrendering you past will prevent thoughts; and cessation of thoughts leads to deep meditation. Once you reach that state, all your problems will end.

H.H. Swami Shivkrupanand

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