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the body, mind and intellect and we spend a lifetime trying to
become miserable and ridden describe His glory, not even a
with sorrow. To surrender this single ray of that mighty
wrong notion of individuality blindening light of wisdom can
and to identify with the Infinite really be expressed in words.
is the goal indicated by all the However, to a devoted mind,
masters in all religions. what I have said so far is more
than sufficient to give a glimpse
Surrender the Ego, of it.
Gain the Infinite So, when Krishna is stand-
ing with the butter, we must
Surrender through love; understand that it is the end
surrender through service;
product of all activities of milk-
surrender through knowledge – ing, boiling the milk, churning
using any one or all of them,
etc. Similarly, the end product
somehow this limited stupid of all our activities is the bundle
egocentric idea must be surren- of vasanas – our various hang-
dered, so that we are awakened
ups and our innate tendency to
to a higher state of conscious- react. These vasanas cannot be
ness – call it Krishna conscious-
removed so easily, but in case
ness, Jesus consciousness, we open up our mind to the
Buddha consciousness, for all of Lord, He will loot them all:
them are talking about one and
näräyaëo näma naro naräëäà
the same experience, though prasiddhacoraù kathitaà
called by different names.
påthivyäà,
Lord Krishna, even while aneka janmärjita päpasaïcayaà
living in this world for our haratyaçeñaà çrutamätra eva. 2
benefit, was ever rooted in the
highest consciousness. Even if 2 Vayu Purana, 2. 11. 321

Those who know the art of self-
development can easily learn how
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its driver’s seat safely around every
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Swami Chinmayananda

Tapovan Prasad 20 November 2017