Surrender to God: The Impossible Made Possible

I just have something more to say because if I leave it at that, then that'll be very disheartening. So it is impossible, but we have been told that for us it is impossible, but nothing is impossible for God. So only relying completely on God, only surrendering completely to Him, will this impossible become possible—that we remain in the truth of what we are and we don't fall for avidya, which is the falseness of who we are. So if it is impossible for us and only possible for God, then what should our approach be? Surrender, yes. But shouldn't our approach then be, 'What's the point? Only if He has to do it, He'll do it,' you see? So let me just give up. Why do I come to satsang? If He has to do it, you do it. But that's not the way it works.

Just like it's said that fortune favors the brave, hardworking people seem to get lucky. It seems that in this play, although we can never predict it, Grace seems to fall upon those who are fully committed to surrender themselves in every way to God. So although we can never predict Grace, it is incumbent upon us to put in our full effort that we think we have at our disposal in other fields of our life. You see, if you can love deeply in a relationship, if you can work hard at our work, if you can try to control ourselves and our lowest impulses in other areas of our life, then why can't we do it for God? Why can't we love Him fully with all might? Why can't we be humble and faithful and grateful? If even in the world we try to be these things, even in worldly relationships, then to create a relationship in the heart with God's presence, then why not?

So let's put in everything that we have at our disposal and give our highest to God, but leave all outcomes and results to Him. Because who is to say that we actually put our highest? Maybe it's just a mind telling us. Who is to say that we are just getting started in this project and our faith is equal to the mustard seed of a mustard seed, not equal to the mustard seed which is needed? We don't know these things. But there is help available, because it would be too difficult for us to do so. The help is in the form of the Atma itself. So we must become truly—the object of satsang is for us to become disciples of the Atma within, of the Satguru within. The external Master is only a stop-gap arrangement, a provisional job. So my job is to try and bring you or guide you to come to this point where your true teacher is the presence of God within yourself. Because in His light, this camel can pass through the eye of the needle. By our means, it can't happen. Only in His light can we remain steady in the truth in the face of worldly temptations, in the push-pull of the world.