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Self-Surrender in Principle and Self-Surrender in Detail · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When the seeker takes up the path of yoga and surrender of
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  the ego consciousness to the Divine, he identifies himself
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  with the psychic being, the sole entity in his being, and makes
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  the offering from that part of his being.
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  What is frequently not recognized, however, is that the
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  human being is made-up of numerous different parts or
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  planes of action that represent the various evolved forces that
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  have developed this complex interaction which we identify as
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  ourselves. These other aspects of his
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  being, whether his physical body, his vital being, his
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  emotional responses, more or less a combined effort of the
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  vital and the mental and the mental being, each have their
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  own preconceived notions and ways of reacting and responding
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  to situations, events, forces and circumstances.
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  Some of these represent embedded habits or what we call instincts
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  going back to pre human times in the evolutionary cycle, various
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  forms of behaviour are learned as the human individual grows
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  and develops as well. All of these reactions are
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  carried out despite the central surrender of the ego from the
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  psychic being at the centre of this human amalgam.
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  The work then is not simply to accept the psychic beings
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  aspiration and surrender as the final and definitive action.
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  Rather, each part of the being, each habit, instinct, reaction
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  and trained response needs to be brought within the framework of
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  that self surrender and thereby adjusted to conform to the
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  dictates of the psychic offering. 3 Aurobindo notes
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  quote. It is the psychic surrender in
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  the physical that you have begun to experience.
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  All the parts are essentially offered, but the surrender has
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  to be made complete by the growth of the psychic self
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  offering in all of them and in all their movements, separately
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  and together. To be enjoyed by the Divine is
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  to be entirely surrendered, so that one feels the Divine
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  presence, power, light, Ananda, possessing the whole being,
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  rather than oneself possessing these things for one's own
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  satisfaction. It is a much greater ecstasy to
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  be thus surrendered and possessed by the Divine than
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  oneself to be the possessor. At the same time, by this
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  surrender there comes also a calm and happy mastery of self
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  and nature. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo Basis of Yoga Chapter 2 Faith, Aspiration Surrender
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  page 36.