Surrender is Not an Act, It Is a Quality #DailyWisdom

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

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Set the context for a joyful, exuberant day with a short, powerful message from Sadhguru. Explore a range of subjects with Sadhguru, discover how every aspect of life can be a stepping stone, and learn to make the most of the potential that a human being embodies. Conscious Planet: ⁠https://www.consciousplanet.org⁠ Sadhguru App (Download): ⁠https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app⁠ Official Sadhguru Website: ⁠https://isha.sadhguru.org⁠ Sadhguru Exclusive: ⁠https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive⁠ Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you surrender to somebody, you will only become a slave. You will not become free.
0:22.6	Surrender is not an act. Surrender is a certain quality. When we talk about surrender,
0:28.6	don't ever think I am talking about you surrendering to me. It is about you becoming a surrender.
0:35.6	And me is just a catalyst to bring about that quality in youth.
0:40.3	No, you cannot surrender to anybody because you cannot.
0:44.3	You can create deceptions of surrender.
0:48.3	Surrender is not something that you do.
0:51.3	When you lose your will, you become surrender. It's not something that you can do.
0:57.0	Surrender is like an absence. You cannot create an absence, isn't it? See, we can create light. Can you create darkness?
1:05.0	To switch off the light, it's always been, isn't it? So surrender is just that. Just collapsing into the existence.
1:14.6	Not something that you do.
1:16.6	When all you're doing stops, your surrender.
1:19.6	Meditation is deep surrender.
1:21.6	If you really become meditative, you're in surrender.

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