Renounce, Surrender, Discipline.
These three words many people see as a red flag although they want liberation, they want to be able to meditate deeply, they want a flexible healthy body, they want happiness, they want to be free of their minds, all these wants! People want liberation but they want everything else in the world too. Now imagine you are trekking up a mountain whilst carrying a heavy rucksack full of all these different things like too many clothes and boots and this and that - or imagine carrying all the contents of your phone - all your photograph albums you have ever made, maps of the whole world, dictionaries and a book of all the restaurants in the world etc etc; everything you can access from your phone, then with each step you start to take these things out of your rucksack and give them away, knowing that actually you don't need them at all. You keep walking although it is difficult, each step with determination and eventually you reach the top of that mountain - you take off your rucksack with its remaining contents and oh my goodness - what a relief - it is simply a huge ahhhhhhhhhhh - big breath of fresh air - at last freedom.
Renounce, Surrender, Discipline -
I hope you understand - it is all in your hands - you have the power to be free.
Om Namah Sivaya
With love
Mangala - Nicky
