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SURRENDER – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
opinion based on my experience in sadhana, I may assert the same with regard to our beloved Master Babuji Maharaj.
Before we reach the stage of surrender in our sadhana, we in fact go through several preliminary stages starting from the development of understanding of interdependency of various shades. But understanding and living interdependency means quite a lot. Our Ego is the one and only barrier that needs to be crossed for even elementary understanding of interdependency. Ego is also known as pride, as self- importance. It may be considered as the compulsive need to consider oneself as separate from others. As one of the modern psychologists states, it is love- denying obsession with separation and self concern. But the Ego about which I am talking here is the Ego as understood in the science of spirituality. This is a bit different from the concept of Ego that psychologists examine where it is one that is principally concerned with the organizing function of a person. If a person is not well organized surely he needs special attention by experts in medicine and psychiatry. It is not that Ego that we refer in our spiritual path.
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