Three Modes of Total Self-giving

Three Modes of Total Self-giving

Three typical modes of total self-giving to the Divine:

1. To transport oneself at His feet, giving up all pride in perfect humility.

2. To unfold one’s being before Him, open one’s whole body from head to foot, as one opens a book, exposing one’s centres so as to make all their movements visible in a complete sincerity that allows nothing to remain hidden.

3. To nestle in His arms, to mere in Him in a loving and absolute trust.

These movements may be accompanied by three formulas or any one of them according to the case:

1. Let Thy Will be done and not mine.

2. As Thou willest, as Thou willest.

3. I am Thine for eternity.

Generally, with these movements are done in the true way, they are followed by a perfect identification, a dissolution of the ego, giving rise to a sublime felicity.

(The Mother, Pondicherry ... Taken from All India Magazine, November 2010)