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Mind must learn from the greater Consciousness it is approaching and not impose its own standards on it; it has to receive illumination, open to a higher Truth, admit a greater Power that does not work according to mental canons, surrender itself and allow its half-light half-darkness to be flooded from above till where it was blind it can see, where it was deaf it can hear, where it was insensible it can feel, and where it was baffled, uncertain, questioning, disappointed it can have joy, fulfilment, certitude and peace.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/doubt-and-faith#p8</ref>
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This Light comes not by struggle or by thought;
In the mind's silence the Transcendent acts
And the hushed heart hears the unuttered Word. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother#p59</ref>
==How to Surrender the Vital?==
Surrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p16,p17</ref>
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If you give yourself entirely to the Divine, it is He who does the Yoga, it is no longer you; hence this is not very difficult; while if you do tapasya, it is you yourself who do the yoga and you carry its whole responsibility—it is there the danger lies. But there are people who prefer to have the whole responsibility, with its dangers, because they have a very independent spirit. They are not perhaps in a great hurry—if they need several lives to succeed, it does not matter to them. But there are others who want to go quicker and be more sure of reaching the goal; well, these give over the whole responsibility to the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-february-1951#p5</ref>
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Radha is the symbol of loving consecration to the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-iv#p23</ref>
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There is not much spiritual meaning in keeping open to the Mother if you withhold your surrender. Self-giving or surrender is demanded of those who practise this Yoga, because without such a progressive surrender of the being it is quite impossible to get anywhere near the goal.
To keep open means to call in her Force to work in you, and if you do not surrender to it, it amounts to not allowing the Force to work in you at all or else only on the condition that it will work in the way you want and not in its own way which is the way of the Divine Truth.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/surrender-to-the-mother#p1</ref>
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The path is long, but self-surrender makes it short; the way is difficult, but perfect trust makes it easy.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p13</ref>
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<center>A vast surrender was his only strength.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother#p60</ref></center>
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