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not clear about my speech but I had the privilege of meeting my dear brother Paramahamsa Niranjananandaji and he told me of a letter sent to him from Paramahamsaji regarding the World Yoga Convention. The letter is in English but I understand its message to be that nothing happens according to personal desires or will. Instantly, I felt as though I had received my aphorisrn. The letter was in its own way tempered with austerity, like Ramayana or Gita. Paramahamsaji writes, "You call it Tyag Jubilee and I call it an auspicious moment of samarpan (surrender). This was the spiritual and sublime moment which I had experienced in the presence of my guru and I live through that glorious moment even today." In the last part of the letter he has blessed Paramahamsa Niranjananandaji saying that he will be able to help mankind to re-establish this state of surrender which has been lost. We bow to our dear brother Paramahamsa Swami Sri Niranjanananda and his every action. I am often dumbfounded by the patience, the potential and the forebearance he displays.
I felt as if I had received the hint from the letter that two things are very necessary in life, renunciation and surrender. To surrender is very necessary because without this nothing can be done. Yet, one has to both surrender and renounce. We do not like to renounce or give and are so confused by these two things that we got into a dilemma. We like to expand; we do not like to fold up, to wrap up, to let go. We know how to take but we do not know how to give. We do not know how much we can receive through giving. In truth all our problems in life are due to this. Dadu has sung a nice couplet about this. He says give up all to God. But how to give? You are not able to just pick it up and give. He says, “It appears as if it is non-profitable to give, but actually it is a very profitable venture." This couplet is very straightforward but listen carefully.
Tan bhi teraa, man bhi teraa teraa pind paraan Sab kuch teraa, tu hai meraa, yeh Dadu kaa gyan
“Everything has been given to him and he has been accepted as our own. We shall have to give all. We will not get anything by saving something for ourselves. It cannot be a quarter or a half. All is required. Everything has to be given up for him.".You can call him guru, Ram or Krishna. Call him nirakaar, call him sakaar, but whomsoever he is he wants all of you.
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