What do we have that we can surrender to God? Everything is his already. The flower, which we offer at his feet, is plucked from his garden. The service, which we offer, is his gift to us. Our "surrender" is actually our acceptance of divine will. It is renunciation of the illusion of separateness. It is abandonment of the ego that says, "This is mine."

Surrender requires us to discard all that does not bring us closer to God realization. Our attachments and desires for material acquisitions and emotional satisfactions must be released. We must perform action without desire for the results; the results rest in God’s hands.

Surrendering to the Lord is surrendering all thoughts and actions, not wishing for the fruits of the action, not doing action to gain its fruit, but doing the action because it is one’s duty. The act is dedicated to the Lord and the results, therefore, are borne by the Lord.

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