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''Q. You have asked me, "How do you surrender to the psychic if you are not conscious of its action?" I do it in the same way that I surrender to the Force above. I simply imagine that there is the Force above or that there is a psychic being in the heart centre. Imagining so, I surrender myself to it.''

''A.'' It is then a ''saṅkalpa'' of surrender. But the surrender must be to the Mother—not even to the Force, but to the Mother herself.

''Q. When the central being has surrendered, the principal difficulty has disappeared. What is this central being?'' ''A.'' The central being is not the same in everyone—it is the part that governs the rest of the personality and imposes its will on it.

''Q. How can one know whether the surrender is total or not?''

''A.'' This does not seem to me difficult. One may try out a little exercise. One may say, "Let me see, I surrender to the Divine, I want Him to decide everything in my life." This is your starting point. A little exercise: the Divine is going to decide that such and such a thing happens, precisely something in contradiction with your feeling. Then one tells oneself, "Well, and if the Divine tells me, 'You are going to give that up'"—you will see quite easily, immediately, what the reaction is; if it causes a little prick like this, inside, you may tell yourself, "The surrender is not perfect"—it pricks, it pricks.... <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/21-april-1951#p29,p30</ref>

''Q. What is the secret of success in sadhana?''

''A.'' Surrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p16,p17</ref>