Sai Inspires Feb 7, 2025 Why is control of the senses a necessary practice to experience peace? What role does surrender play in it? Bhagawan lovingly inspires us today with clarity. The see-er should not attach oneself to the seen; that is the way to get free. The contact of senses with objects arouse desire and attachment; this leads to effort and either elation or despair; then, there is fear of loss or grief at failure and the train of reactions lengthens! With many doors and windows kept open to all the winds that blow, how can the flame of the lamp within survive? That lamp is the mind, which must burn steadily unaffected by the dual demands of the world outside! Complete surrender to the Lord is one way of closing the windows and doors, for then, in that stance of Saranagati (complete surrender to God), you are bereft of "ego" and so, you are not buffeted by joy or grief. Complete surrender makes you draw upon the grace of the Lord for meeting all the crises in your career and so, it renders you heroic, more stalwart, and better prepared for the battle. - Divine Discourse, Jan 13, 1965.