Does cultivation of devotional surrender lead you to the same experience as the cultivation of Self-Realization? Do the paths of devotion and wisdom arrive at the same destination? Here, I share how a deeper understanding of devotion simplified it all for me.
I valued the pursuit of knowledge for most of my life, including on my spiritual path. Life experiences, however, thrust me into the realm of miracles that I couldn’t explain from my rational-skeptic mindset. The heart of the heart of this desire to seek knowledge, it turned out, was to find the answer to the most important question, “Who am I?”
Unconditional love, big love is your real nature, as is the Pristine Awareness. When attention is withdrawn from mind, and surrendered in the heart, a sacred alchemy is sparked where love is hit by lightning and body-mind becomes a pure instrument of Grace.
