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Intuition and the Need for Self-Surrender · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We get an intimation of what we should do, how we should respond
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  to a situation. Then all the excuses and
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  justifications and needs and temporizing begin.
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  And we find that there are good reasons why we should not do
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  exactly in the precise way that the inner guidance tells us
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  something should be done. It is not the time.
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  There are so many issues or obstacles.
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  There may be negative consequences from feedback or.
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  Pushback when we try to act. Whatever it may be, the guidance
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  gets watered down. Generally, this may be due to
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  fear, self-interest, desire, laziness or a form of mental
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  arrogance based on a knowledge of how things are done.
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  In order for the inner guidance to have its optimum impact, the
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  seeker must be able to overcome these neutralizing effects and
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  that is why the mother calls for a complete surrender, implying
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  that the mental, vital and physical resistances basically
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  get out of the way of the process without taking into
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  account self-interest or any kind of bargaining, the mother
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  writes. Quote And there comes a time
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  when 1 feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is
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  leading one very perceptibly in all that one does.
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  But then for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must
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  naturally add to it a conscious surrender.
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  One must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given
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  by the higher force. If one does that, then one saves
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  years of study. One can seize the result
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  extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the
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  result comes very rapidly, but for that it must be done with
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  sincerity and a kind of inner spontaneity.
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  If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed, as
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  one can also succeed in developing 1's personal will and
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  making it into a very considerable power.
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  But that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and
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  the result is very precarious. One must be very persistent,
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  obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only
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  after a great labor. Make your surrender with a
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  sincere, complete, self giving and you will go ahead at full
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  speed. You will go much faster.
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  But you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils
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  everything. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 21 Intuition,
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  page 161.