Soldier

December  9, 2001

• The soldier is trained, he is given a gun, he can shoot, fight, run, defend, offend and for every function he needs, he is equipped.
• When to attack and whom to fight with comes to him as an order from the general.
• Which country he should attack is decided by the President.
• The soldier does not intrude into the powers of the General nor the General, the President.
• As a student, I know reading, writing, understanding, passing an examination. I have been trained in them and I know how to do them.
• I want to take a job and then get married.
• As I was trained to pass an examination, no training has been given to me to choose a job. Life wants to give me a job.
• Having been trained to take up a job and acquit myself well and not having been trained to choose a job, my capacity to wait for life to give me a job will get me the very best life can give. Life will come to me according to my circumstances.
• Otherwise, I will choose a job with the training for writing the examination.
• The capacity to WAIT for life to give me the job will bring me the very best I deserve.
• God wants to give me a wife as life desires to give me a job.
• I insist on choosing a wife and choose one as my age knows with its experience.
• By waiting on God to give me a wife, God gives me the one my patience deserves. Otherwise, I get a wife my impatience deserves.
• In the language of yoga we can say:

- The soldier surrenders to the general.,

- The General surrenders to the President.

- The man surrenders to the life as well as God.

• What then is surrender to the divine Mother?
• Man has the freedom to choose jobs, wife, decisions, etc. as he is equipped.
• Mother comes to the devotees, offering us the very best SHE has chosen for us.
• Surrender is a choice before us.
• We always choose as we like and insist on The Mother fulfilling our wishes. This is NOT surrender or consecration.
• Our surrender has so many levels.
• The very first and the smallest is the passive indifference which passes for surrender. It can be negative surrender.
• In the very best of inner conditions, this is what we do.
• When we ask for something, Mother is eliminated from there.
• When we desire something, our desire removes Her.
• A thought about a possibility is an intrusion into Her domain and to that extent She is rendered ineffective.
• Not to ask, desire, and think is excellent, but still they are all passive surrender, negative in character.
• To know that our desire has a small scope for a great work on hand, to withdraw the energy in our desire to ourselves, and offer it to be used by our personality changes our personality.
• To actively offer those energies to The Mother for Her to use them as SHE chooses is active surrender.
• Now our personality is not only passive or equal but is positive to allow Mother to work on it as She chooses.
• It is positive surrender that enables Her to act as She alone can act.
• Such a positive surrender can be enhanced in its value by one's adoration, aspiration, and knowledge of Mother.
• Knowledge of the Mother expands the scope of Her action and aspiration energises the personality to be more receptive.