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Q. Beloved Swamiji, how can we surrender the ego, when this wantingto surrender is itself an expression of the ego?

A question to you: How are you going to surrender the ego, when it does notexist?

Suppose you are sitting in a dark room. You want the darkness to go out. But canyou push it out? Can you fight darkness and force it to leave the room? NO! Nomatter how long you keep on trying, you are ultimately going to be defeated --and that too by something which does not exist!

The ego is like darkness, it has no positive existence. Just like darkness is simplythe absence of light, the ego is nothing but the absence of awareness. To struggleto kill the ego is like struggling to push the darkness out of the room. To reallyexpel the darkness, what you need to do is toforget all aboutdealing with thedarkness. Focus you energy on Light instead. Just bring a small lamp into theroom, and you will find that the darkness has fled on its own! So, I tell you toforget all about the ego. Instead, focus on bringing a lamp of awareness into yourbeing. When your entire consciousness has become a flame, you will find that theego is no more.

The ego is an illusion. You cannot surrender it when you are unaware -- becauseyou don't know how. Of course, you cannot surrender it when you become awareeither -- because then you realize that there is nothing left to surrender!

What you have heard, read, been taught -- 'Surrender the ego in order to attainself-realization' -- this is an utterly nonsensical idea. It can happen only the otherway round. Self-realization dawns, and suddenly you cannot find the ego

anymore. The surrender has already happened, just like that.

However, I am glad that the question has arisen in your being. The ego is the rootcause for all your anxieties, sorrows, tensions. It is your doorway to hell. Toactively feel that you want to drop the ego, to feel the need to be rid of this burdenis itself a step towards awareness. It shows that you are stirring from your sleep!

______________________This excerpt has been taken from the book: "? + Nithyananda = !" SwamiNithyananda Transforms your Questions into Wonder!

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Joke Of The Day: 15 Jan 2008

A man boarded a ferry boat that was going to the mainland. Inside the boat, hewas pacing up and down. The ferryman told him to sit quietly. The man replied,I have no time to sit, I have to reach quickly!

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If we Surrender to the Energy that is taking care of us and continuedoing our work, we can unload a big burden off us. We dont do thisand end up taking on undue tensions and sorrows in life.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Ask The Master: 14 Jan 2008

Q. Dearest Swamiji, is it necessary to renounce the world to realizethe self?

To realize the self, there is only one thing you must be willing to renounce:ignorance.

Self-realization has nothing to do with giving up the world. To run away from the

world is just as bad as clinging to it; in both cases it is evident that the world iscontrolling your actions. Aversion to the world is as much a product of ignoranceas attachment to it, they are just two sides of the same coin.

A person can live in a cave in the mountains and be obsessed withsansar(worldliness), while another can live in the world and yet be completely detachedfrom its pushes and pulls (sannyas). To take sannyas is not to renounce theworld, but simply to renounce both attachment and aversion to the world. Thevery same life, when seen through the mist of ignorance, is sansar-- and whenseen in the clear light of self awareness, becomes sannyas.

It is true, sannyasins always lead a simple life, untouched bysansar. But forthem, the renouncing of attachment and aversion is not an effort. When self-realization awakens, renouncement happens naturally.

The first step towards sannyas is to become aware of your inner conflict betweenattachment and aversion. As you witness it, you become aware that there is a coreinside you that is beyond this conflict, a being that is completely unconcernedwith the questions of Yes and No. This is your Self, eternal and immutable. In theblaze of this awakening, all that is superfluous simply drops away like dead leavesfrom a tree. What remains is the completely essential -- this issannyas.

True sannyas is to live like a lotus in a lake, perfectly at ease in the muddy water,but untouched and unsullied by it.

A Zen story says that a master and his disciple were on their way from one villageto the next. At the border of the villages flowed a shallow stream which theyusually crossed by wading through it. This time, they discovered that due toheavy rains, the stream had swollen into a small river, too deep to wade across.

The disciple was alarmed, and enquired of the master, "Should we attempt to

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cross this river, Master?"

Replied the master with a twinkle in his eye, "Certainly you should cross the river,my child. Just remember not to get your feet wet!"

This is the true meaning ofsannyas. When you can cross the river ofsansar, butthe sansarcan no longer wet you, you have found sannyas.

______________________This excerpt has been taken from the book: "? + Nithyananda = !" SwamiNithyananda Transforms your Questions into Wonder!

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Joke Of The Day: 14 Jan 2008

Once a man lived without any faith in God. Suddenly one day he fell from ahilltop and found himself dangling from just the grip of a trees root. He suddenlyremembered people talking about God all the time and cried out, Oh God! I havenever had faith in you; are you really up there? Can you save me now? Godanswered, Sure son, just let go of the root that you are holding and I will holdyou from beneath. The man cried out again: Is there anyone else out there whocan help me!

Our faith is never total Surrender. Surrender! and you will be guidedin every step of your life by the Life Force that is guiding this entireUniverse.

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