Please contemplate today’s commentary in the same way you contemplate the Thoughts of Awakening.

~Commentary on False Perception~

 The closed-box is false perception. False perception is a way of seeing what is as if it is something it isn’t. False perception can also be called blindness, because it hides the truth from the mind that has chosen to be deceived.

The good news, however, is simply this: “It hides the truth from the mind that has chosen  to be deceived.” And if the mind has chosen to be deceived, it can also choose again by choosing not to re-believe its own deception.

Ask, “What am I believing that is not in alignment with what I am?” And as you ask this question, remember that you do not know what you are. If you can ask this question with the realization you know not what you are, the thinking mind will not be able to figure out an answer. Any answer that is given is given by true awareness. Therefore, it is a truly helpful answer.

You need not know what you are doing to be helped by God, for God does know. God can show you and enlighten you if only you will surrender with a desire to be shown.

~From our Holy Spirit

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When you read today’s message, please surrender to it. It is a message about surrender, but in order to fully realize the lesson in the message, you will have to surrender to the message.

When today’s message asks you to do something, surrender to it, and do it right then. If there are thoughts in your mind that say you don’t need to do it, or you don’t have time to do it, or you can do it later, practice self-inquiry to notice how the mind is trying to stop you from surrendering.

Why would the mind try to stop you from surrendering?

Is the mind trying to control you?

Is the mind in control of you, or is your Heart in the lead in your daily life?

In the Bible at John 15:4, Jesus said:

Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

“Abide in me as I abide in you,” is a call to surrender. The “fruit” that Jesus spoke of is awakening. Just as he told the disciples previously that salvation (awakening) is not possible for man, but only for God, this scripture points out that awakening is not possible if the mind remains in the lead. Surrender is necessary.

When I was the scribe of Inner Ramana, I received guidance to add, “Abide in me as I abide in you,” to my mantra practice. In other words, just as I said, “I am that I am” to myself whenever the reminder came to do so, I also said, “Abide in me as I abide in you,” to myself whenever the reminder came to do so. As I used this mantra, I felt my inner desire to surrender. Through using the mantra, my resistance to surrender weakened, because I noticed that I (the true ‘I’) wanted to surrender. As I became more aware of my desire to surrender, surrender came more easily to me.

If you feel guidance to journal about anything you read as you read today’s message, surrender to that inner prompt, and journal with inner wisdom as guided.

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