Surrender And Inquiry Are Same In Reality

[Reading from the chat] Then the next one says ‘Dear Father, is letting go of my thoughts and Self-inquiry, two opposite ways for realization?’ Well in a way, we can say Self-inquiry and surrender (letting go of my thoughts is just surrender). Bhagavan [Sri Ramana Maharishi] said that ‘There are two ways to come to the Self in this path. One is to inquire into the nature of ‘I’ and the second one is to surrender completely.’ And to surrender is to not hold on to any concepts, is to just let go. But in reality, there are not two because He [Sri Ramana Maharishi] has clearly defined this. He said ‘I am something’ is the source of all trouble. Now this ‘something’ is always a thought, unless you attach this something with identification, with belief in the sense of your Being it is not possible to be identified. Now, when you say ‘I am…let us say that something was I am not Free.’ When you say ‘I am not free.’ You can say ‘Who is the one that is not Free?’ You don’t find such a one that is not free. Then that ‘not Free’ doesn’t attach to your Being, because you investigated and you saw that there is such one. What happens when you surrender? You say ‘I am still not Free.’ And then you say ‘Okay, that is the Master’s problem. That is God’s problem, it has nothing to do with me.’ So then it doesn’t attach. Either way, you are not attaching any notion to your Being. And anything which leaves you in this un-born, leaves you notion-less, is true Satsang. Anything that leaves you conditioned, even if it makes you conditioned spiritually, is not Satsang. So whatever, not just surrender and Self-inquiry, which are both the same in this way just different seeming ways to come to the same result. But that is for all of spirituality. Can you leave yourself unattached to any concept? And anything that seems to get you there is a worthy spiritual practice. Then you will see that actually nothing is needed. It is only when we are deeply conditioned in the habit that it seemed like we need a particular practice. And you see that [Clicking of figures to mean ‘in this moment’] you are not attached. It is natural that you are not attached. It is not natural that you are attached. But till we have the notion that ‘naturally I am attached’ then these practices can be used.