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The Practice of Yoga Through Surrender, Self-Giving and Consecration · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The challenge faced by the aspirant trying to bring about
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  the action of a new basis of awareness and action.
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  Is that continued. Reliance on the habitual means
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  and methods of mine life and body inhibits the free active
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  intervention of this new consciousness.
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  The process of exceeding, the framework of the present,
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  requires a methodology, that shifts, the focus, and Reliance
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  to that new stance, and allows it to determine the motives and
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  timing of the steps along the way. the more we try to control
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  the process, the less opportunity we provide for the
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  higher Force to act, SRI, aurobindo describes, the yogic
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  development, based on leaving the past habits behind and
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  relying. On the Divine to bring about the
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  evolutionary development, in a receptive, mind life body vessel
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  Three aurobindo notes, quote, what I mean by surrender is this
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  inner surrender of the mind. And vital, there is, of course,
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  the outer surrender. Also the giving up of all that
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  is found to conflict with the spirit or need of the sadhna,
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  the offering the obedience to the guidance of the Divine,
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  whether directly, if one is, reached that stage or through
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  the psychic or to the guidance of the guru, True.
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  The core of the inner surrender is trust and confidence in the
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  Divine one takes the attitude, I want the Divine and nothing
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  else. I want to give myself entirely
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  to him and since my soul wants that, it cannot be.
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  But that I shall meet and realize him, I ask nothing.
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  But that and his action in me to bring me to him his actions,
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  secret or open, veiled or manifest.
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  I do not Not insist on my own time and way let him do all in
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  his own time. In way, I Shall Believe in him
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  except his will Aspire steadily for his light and presence.
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  And joy. Go through all difficulties and
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  delays relying on him and never giving up.
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  Let my mind, be quiet and trust him and let him open it to his
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  light. Let my vital be quiet and turn
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  to him alone and let him open it to his calm.
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  Enjoy all for him and myself for him.
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  Whatever happens. I will keep to this aspiration
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  and self-giving and go on in perfect Reliance that it will be
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  done. That is the attitude in which
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  one must grow for certainly, it cannot be made perfect at once,
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  mental and vital movements come across.
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  But if one keeps the will to it, it will grow in the being.
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  The rest is a matter of obedience to the guidance when
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  it makes itself manifest not allowing one's mental and vital
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  movements to interfere. All can be done by the Divine
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  the heart and nature purified, the inner Consciousness
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  awakened, the veils removed, if one gives oneself to the Divine
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  with trust and confidence, and even if one cannot do so fully
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  at once yet, the more one does. So the more the inner help and
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  guidance come and the experience of the Divine grows Within If
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  the questioning mind, becomes less active. and humility and
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  the will to surrender grow This ought to be perfectly possible.
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  No, other strength and capacity are then needed.
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  But this alone reference SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI
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  aurobindo teaching and method of practice, chapter 5, basis of
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  yoga surrender Pages, 102 105.