Page 159 - Ecstasy and Agony in the Journey to Infinity

We attach ourselves to Nychya. This is an exact opposite of swabhimanamu. We accept our lowliness and we take it as means for progress. If we develop the quality that we are lowly, we will be in a position to conquer certain things. It is accepting our lowliness. This is beginnings of surrender, without that there is no surrender at all.
Swabhimanamu goes with maitri. Somebody should help you. When he helps, he becomes great. Now, If you are aware that you are great, your consciousness is great, you will never yield afterwards. You have to yield there. Nychyanusandanamu (􏰀ై􏰁ాయ్నుసం􏰂ానము) becomes an
impossibility for a personon the path. It requires a Master to help us, we cannot move ourselves, that is why surrender is not a joke.
Everybody uses the word surrender, but nobody surrenders because you have to surrender yourself and your greatness. That is not the end, you must also accept that you are lowliest of the low. Nychyaanusandaanamu is an attitude that a person develops deliberately, knowing full well that he is person who is capable of maitri, is a person who capable of
bhakti, guru nishta. Everything he has got but he takes 141