The Power of Trust in Surrender || Acharya Prashant (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Good evening, sir. So, I feel like I'm kind of repeating the last two questions, but just

00:10to give it some sort of a conclusion. What role does trust play in surrender? And then

00:22can I also know, how to know who to trust? You see, it's not about what to trust, whom

00:33to trust, etc. The issue is a little different. Think of a medical syringe, what you call

00:42as injection. Think of that medical syringe. Don't you trust the manufacturer and still

00:53you resist the injection? That's what. The problem is not that we don't trust the thing.

01:04The problem is that we trust our tendency to resist pain a little more. The question

01:13should be how to distrust oneself. Your self tells you a lot of things. It teaches you

01:24a lot of lessons. How to distrust those lessons? I'm not saying everything in the world is

01:33trustworthy. But what I'm saying is, even the things that you perceive in the world

01:40come to you via the way your trustworthy insides have taught you. Now, as long as the one within

01:50remains trustworthy, how will you know what to believe in, what to reject, what to trust

01:59and what to have faith on in the apparent world? Remember that syringe example. Even

02:11stuff that we know is very trustworthy is still something that we are so resistant to.

02:20Because there is someone within who believes in her welfare by her own standards much more

02:34than she believes in the truth. How to distrust her? If you do not distrust her, you will

02:48look through her eyes, you will hear through her ears, you will think through her mind.

02:55And the results of the thought would obviously then be very distorted. In some sense, spirituality

03:07is about learning to distrust yourself. I understand where you are coming from. You

03:14are asking, before I surrender, first of all, I must be assured that the one in front of me is

03:20trustworthy. But the question is misplaced. Do you see that? How do you judge or gauge the one

03:28in front of you? Who is doing that? The assessor, the evaluator inside you. The evaluator inside

03:41you, right? And if the internal evaluating mechanism is in itself distorted, the results

03:49it will give me will not be any good. So before I ask, is that fellow worthy of being surrendered

04:00to, I must first ask, who is setting my criteria? Who is setting my criteria? Is the criteria the

04:10medicine or the pain? When you think of your relationship with the syringe, I am asking you,

04:20who is setting the criteria? There could be someone within who might say the criteria is

04:25medicine and someone within could equally well say the criteria is pain. And if the criteria changes,

04:34the results change. Who is the one within that talks so much? Who is the one within that assumes

04:46my name and acts on behalf of me? Obviously. Don't you see something very very special that

05:03he is doing? He is not running away. Every bit of him is not just advising him, but coaxing him to flee.

05:20He does not. I cannot run away. Arjun is militating against himself and that is what surrender is.

05:35Surrender is not about falling at somebody else's feet. Surrender is actually about not surrendering

05:43to the one within. And incidentally, if you fight the one within, you get to know who is the one without

05:56you can trust. The one without who is trustworthy is the one who helps you in your inner fight.

06:14The inner thing comes first. Remember Vedanta. All that matters is the Aham and Atma, right?

06:20Not the Jagat. The relationship between the ego and the self is everything.

06:29Everything. So the matter of trust again has to be seen in the inner dimension. It's not a thing

06:36between this person and that universe. It is a thing within. Is Aham able to resist the temptation and lure of

06:51Prakriti? That's the fight within. And if you are fighting the right battle within, somehow the right guidance

07:07and the right ammunition start appearing on the outside. The converse is equally true.

07:20If you are fighting the wrong battle within, the wrong kind of guidance

07:27and the wrong kind of weapons start appearing then too.

07:31It's all about what you are choosing to do within.

07:40Who says that Arjun is refusing to fight?

07:49Arjun is fighting the bloodiest battle possible even before the first conch is blown.

08:01And because he is fighting that inner battle, he finds Krishna in front of him. Krishna does not

08:09come first. Arjun's resolve comes first. And if that resolve is not there, no Krishna can help you.

08:17So, from this point of view, trust and need for security are negatively correlated.

08:33Obviously.

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