Krishna says surrender, surrender, surrender. Eventually it becomes a
song in the Bhagavad Gita. Many of
you think that you have to give up everything to surrender. Surrender
your bad
habits first. We've had great saints who used to be robbers: Valmiki,
Talsidas - they surrendered and they received an instruction from God
– Vyasa is another one. He was doing all the wrong things and one day
somebody asked him what would happen if he met God one day.
Vyasa replied, 'I'm stealing form my children' then was asked, 'Whose
karma is that, your
children or yours?' Vyasa realised the negative karma he had accrued
so stopped behaving in an irresponsible way.
To surrender is the most beautiful thing
you
can do - not your car or your house, just yourself, your habits. Every
evening you should be accountable. It's so important. Ask yourself:
what did I do today that was divine, with good values? What did I do
today that I don't like? Then balance up and see how much good and how
much bad you accumulated each day. If you are a young lad driving an M3
BMW, and you see an old man in the road, did you fly him off
the crossing, did you hoot at him, or did you stop for him?
One of the last
aspects of kriya sadhana is accountability. What did you do today? Your
sadhana starts at 4am, and lasts the whole day. The last part is before
you sleep. Did I do
anything that made somebody happy? If you didn't, make sure you write
that in red pen in your sadhana book. You know who has the greatest
positive karma in the world? The most good karma? Nurses. But if they
swear at
the patients or pinch them when nobody's looking then theirs will be
bad karma. If
they do their work with proper human values and right living, with love
and joy, then their karma will be very good. The doctors and nurses in
state hospitals who are getting mean salaries for all the work they do,
if they do their work with love and joy, their karma will be very good.
The same applies to occupational
therapists and physical therapists.
Look at your karma daily and you'll
find that when you follow this sadhana of accountability journaling,
you'll
find that every day you become another person because every day you
will want
to write a good comment in your book - without lying.
Om.
