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The core of this inner surrender is trust and confidence in the
Divine . One takes the attitude, "I want the Divine and nothing
else." I do not know why you should think that you can be asked
to give up that — if there is not that, then the Yoga can not be
done . "I want to give myself entirely to him and since my soul
wants that, it can not be but that I shall meet him and realise
him. I ask nothing but that and his action in me to bring me to
him, his action secret or open, veiled or manifest. I do not insist
on my own time and way; let him do all in his own time and way,
I shall believe in him, accept his will, aspire steadily for his light
and presence and joy, go through all difficulties and delays relying
on him and never giving up. Let my mind be quiet and turn to him
and let him open it to his light; let my vital be quiet and turn to
him alone and let him open it to his calm and joy. All for him and
myself for him. Whatever happens, I will keep to this aspiration and
self-giving and go on in perfect reliance that it will be done ." That is
the attitude into which one must grow; for, certainly, it can not be
made perfect at once; mental and vital movements come across;
but if one keeps the will to it, it will grow in the being. The rest is
a matter of obedience to the guidance when it makes itself mani-
fest — not all owing one's mental or vital movements to interfere.
CWSA 29: 68-71 Sri Aurobindo

The most important surrender is the surrender of your character,
your way of being, so that it may change. If you do not surren-
der your very own nature, never will this nature change. It is this
that is most important . You have certain ways of understanding,
certain ways of reacting, certain ways of feeling, al most certain
ways of progressing, and above all, a special way of looking at life
and expecting from it certain things — well, it is this you must sur-
render. That is, if you truly want to receive the divine Light and
transform yourself, it is your whole way of being you must offer —

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