Wednesday, July 25, 2007

the secret of realization lies in this utter surrender

With time I realized that working with Bhagavan in the kitchen was not mere cooking, but definitely a form of spiritual training. The first lesson in spiritual education to learn, and to learn for good, is to obey the guru implicitly without questioning or using one's own judgement in the least. Even if we knew a better way of doing it, we had to do it exactly as the Master told us. It might have appeared that by obeying him the work would be ruined, but still one had to obey. One must master this art of instantaneous and unquestioning obedience, for the secret of realization lies in this utter surrender and renunciation of one's own judgement.

~ Sundaram, from Ramana Smriti

please see: http://ramana-smriti.blogspot.com/2007/07/bhagavans-cooking.html

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