Question: You said that the true definition of surrender was letting go of mental agitation. That is a very beautiful definition. I was wondering if you could help me to understand a little more deeply how that is done. I find sometimes that my mind gets agitated and it causes mental and physical tensions. Even if I have the intention of not getting agitated, at times I feel to be at the mercy of the mind. Can you help me to better understand how to let go of mental agitations and worries?

Babaji:

1) Stick to the target and do not compromise. Never be satisfied with anything less than God, Self-Realization.

2) Always remember that finally everything is illusion. A thought of reality in the mind makes the mind feel agitated. Once the mind firmly realizes that nothing really exists and this is only a long dream and illusion, then things become trivial and agitation automatically goes away. For this purpose only, so that the mind surrenders, the Guru repeatedly teaches that everything except The Divine is unreal and illusion, both transitory and unreal, only a reflection of the mind.

3) When agitation occurs and you feel helpless, try to remember that the agitation also is unreal and transitory. When the mind is firmly of the opinion that a particular thing is real, then mind enjoys getting into the imagination of agitations and so on. Seriously, the mind will believe anything as real and enjoy it.

4) You must know that as the mind enjoys the good, happiness and so on like positiveness, it also enjoys the bad, unhappiness and so on like all negativeness. This is the duality, taking the fuel of which, the mind is in wandering existence. This is also illusion. Everything the mind feels and experiences is simply its own imagination and thinking. The mind can never reflect the reality, the Ultimate Truth. When the mind stops, then existence is the Self and reality. A Yogi simply exists and does not think, “I am this or I am that.” Nothing is real.

5) As you shall not analyze or judge anything, do not analyze or judge the agitation as agitation. Then it will stop. Nobody is having any agitation. Your Self is not having any agitation at all. There is no agitation at all. The Guru says, “Come on, get up! You are dreaming.”

6) As long as the mind has the imagination that it is having fun, it holds on to the thought. Once the mind realizes there is no more fun in that imagination, it drops the thought, that which is giving trouble. It no more enjoys any agitation and drops it.