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Reviewing verse 11 from Ch.4 of the Bhagavad Gita this morning and thinking how significant and purposeful the word "surrender" is in this statement. It's not "worship" or "love", but surrender. I'm contemplating how surrendering is letting go of everything that doesn't matter, isn't necessary, isn't in fact "real", until all that is left is Sat-Chit-Ananda - not even unity with THAT, but just allowing THAT, with unclouded recognition, to flow as it is and always has been and always will be. Acharya Shunya has reminded us, asked us, to be "both human and Vishnu." The task is to keep surrendering, moment to moment, so that divine flow continues through us, as Atman, unobstructed by ego, the jivan mukta. Vishnu is the great sustaining principle; all is sustained in this flow. Yes, we are both human and Vishnu. We surrender to THAT, which is Bhrama/Vishnu/Shiva, which is Brahman. Hari Om Tat Sat.