Ramana Maharshi

After perfect self-surrender, only complete acceptance remains. There can be no room for making any complaint about one's perceived defects and deficiency if surrender to God has been genuinely unconditional or without reserve.

One who is truly, desperately interested in realizing the self will not bother about whether life in the world proceeds positively or not. If it did not, yet one would not bother about the matter.

When the mind becomes introverted owing to the investigation, who am I? And remains merged in the heart, the conditions of outer life automatically continue as destined, owing to the force of past karma.

Do not worry about how life in the world would come to be affected if you dedicate your mind to the quest. It may even be that there might be no change in the outer life at all. If you calmly focus on remaining as the beingness of the self,

The upheavals and perturbations of the outer world will gradually begin to fade out or distance themselves from you. And you will rest in the shanti, the peace of the self.

while the body's activities and your roles as a person will be automatically fulfilled by the higher power. This is a matter for experience.

and you will understand only when you sink yourself deeper and deeper into the bliss of the self by means of holding the mind steadily in that state where there is alert consciousness of being but neither thoughts nor sleepiness

One who has surrendered would not raise any questions. Surrender is not a means to an end. Something that involves doing cannot be surrender.

Give up everything and stop caring for anything on the mental plane. That is surrender.

Some, when asked to surrender, reply, Dhanaswami, now when am I going to realize the Self? It is absurd. To surrender is to abandon even the fundamental or primary arbitrary mental conceptualization.

the I thought. If you are yourself not there, who is going to raise doubts or questions?

After true surrender, only silence remains.

The phenomena we see are curious and surprising,

but the most marvelous of all, we do not realize, which is that one and only, illimitable force, responsible for all the phenomena we see and the act of seeing them.

Do not fix your attention on all these changing things of life, death and phenomena.

Do not think of even the actual act of seeing or perceiving them.

but only of that which sees all these things, that which is responsible for it all.

This will seem nearly impossible at first,

But by degrees, the result will be felt.

It takes years of steady, daily practice.