Devotion to God is surrender to Life

Every real Master shows you how to forget yourself, how to give up your false freedom, how to bring Consciousness, enticing detachment. We can approach this through a speech that points out to non-duality or to the importance of devotion. Devotion is surrender to God, to Life. Do not separate God from Life, nor Life from your true Being. This devotion to God is surrender to Life, and this is Realization of the true Self. Then, devotion to God is devotion to the Truth about your Self.

The Presence, the Grace of God is imperious. In a non-dual language, I would say that attention to the false movement of this illusory identity - with choices, wills and decisions - is crucial. So, the attention to this, to this “me”, to this “I” is, in other words, the true and real devotion to God, to Life, to your true Being. If this is present, there is no room for fear; this is to be in the safe shelter of the Truth.

The Guru will always say: “You are Him!” Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi said: “Leave it to Bhagavan so that He takes care!” This is the real meaning of surrender. Nothing is mine. Everything belongs to God. Therefore, Meditation becomes natural, just like your Natural State of Being, when there is only “Being”, when He takes care of everything, when You are Him, when there is no mind, body, world, health, time anymore, or anything else that is not Him. Everything is Him.

If you believe something is not Him, then non-separation is still just a belief for you. If you are Meditation, there is no resistance, there are no worries about the body, about the future, about adverse situations, because there is no mind, there is no time. Time is His, time is Him. He is the time that appears in the mind, the mind that appears in the Consciousness, the Consciousness itself, and He is beyond time, mind and this objective consciousness we know.

Do not trust anything else, do not separate yourself, do not see yourself as a separate thing. Then, you relax in His Grace, in His Presence, in the Truth... You are this relaxation itself. A speech about You is also about Him, for it shows that you are Him and He is you.

*Presential meeting transcription, originally held in Fortaleza city -Brazil, on May, 2018. - First published in Portuguese on October 5^th, 2018 Please visit our agenda and join us: http://mestregualberto.com