Sri Lakshmana Swamy
What is meditation? What is devotion? True devotion is loving God or the Guru. If one can think of God or the Guru and love him continuously without any other thoughts arising, then that is surrender. Ultimately, the 'I' must dissolve in love for the Guru.
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God is not apart from you; he is within you as your own Self. This Self is beyond time and beyond birth and death. It is eternal peace and bliss. If you want to reach that peace and bliss you must either undertake self-enquiry 'Who am I?' or you must completely surrender to your God or Guru.
Vichara and surrender are not really separate. Vichara stimulates devotion, and surrender stimulates a spirit of enquiry. Both practices culminate in a still, thought-free mind, and both cause the grace of the Self, who is the Guru within, to flow.
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God is not apart from you; he is within you as your own Self. This Self is beyond time and beyond birth and death. It is eternal peace and bliss. If you want to reach that peace and bliss you must either undertake self-enquiry 'Who am I?' or you must completely surrender to your God or Guru.
Vichara and surrender are not really separate. Vichara stimulates devotion, and surrender stimulates a spirit of enquiry. Both practices culminate in a still, thought-free mind, and both cause the grace of the Self, who is the Guru within, to flow.
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