What Does It Mean to Put God in the Center of the Frame?
Saar (Essence)
Ananta explains that putting God in the center of the frame is not a script the mind writes in advance. Real surrender empties the intellect so the heart, not our determination, can speak.
We cannot determine what God's will would be. That is up for God to decide.
Pre-deciding what God would want is still the me trying to retain control.
Be so empty of mental translation that the heart travels naked of those layers.
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Transcript
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Let me take a simpler example to illustrate my point about keeping God in the center of the frame. What is happening is that some of you are hearing it as if we are able to presuppose what that would look like. So we have, in a way, presupposed. One child said to me very sweetly, she is in a work situation where she has to put herself out there, promote herself in some way, and she said to me that if I put God in the center of the frame, then I will never be able to do this marketing sort of initiative. But I said to her that God has to tell you that. In the sense that we cannot presuppose that if I put God in the center of my life, then this is what will never happen, or should never happen, I cannot talk about myself. Even if God is in the center of the frame, and it is his will that something outwardly has to happen from this body-mind instrument, then that is up for God to decide. We cannot determine what God's will would be.
So my suggestion is that we have to come to God's presence, keep him in the center of the frame, without giving it to our mind, our intellect, and saying, 'No, no, if it is God in the center, then this should not happen. If it is God in the center, then that should not happen.' No, that is up for God to decide. You see? Now, what happens is that we are so used to determining how things should be.
Yeah.
And then we say, 'Okay, if he was in the center of my life, if he was my beloved, if he was all there is as reality, then these actions should happen and these actions should not happen. So let me decide to do those actions, or not do those actions, based on my determination.' But we have never put God in the frame, then.
Absolutely. Thank you. That's exactly what I needed to hear.
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Yes, my dear. So just put him in the center of the frame, and allow yourself to be so empty of intellectual, mental translation of what your heart is sharing, so that your expression becomes so naked of those layers. And it just travels from there, from heart to the other. Because what many of us are doing is falling into this trap of 'Let me live as if God is in the center of my frame. What would that look like?' You see?
Absolutely.
We get into 'What would that look like?' We're using our mind to say, 'This should happen. This should not happen. This is right. This is wrong.' But that is still the me trying to retain control, actually. Because this mystery, this unpredictability of completely handing over to him, seems too much for the ego, for the me. So it still wants to keep some semblance of control.
Totally.
A pretend semblance. Actually, it is taking charge. You see? 'God would never want me to do this. God would want me only to do that.' Why do you need to determine that? Has God said, 'You determine, based on your understanding of me, what I would want'?
Yeah. Yeah, that's spot on.
So it's very important that our true surrender happens where we are so empty of these layers of interception, of contamination, and we allow our heart to speak, and we don't determine what God would want. We don't determine what that would look like. Because then we're giving charge to the mind. We're giving intellectual authority to the intellect, to override, or...
Speak.
Speak, yes. To speak for God. To speak for God, yeah.
Exactly. Thank you. That's spot on, really.
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