Complete surrender to God, not petition but dissolution
Intense prayer, surrender to God, or devotional practice appears in roughly one in ten accounts, particularly in theistic and Christian contexts. The common thread isn't ordinary prayer but complete surrender — not petition but dissolution.
Several accounts describe crying out at the end of their rope — a total giving up — and something responding. Whether framed as God, grace, or simply an opening, what arrived was consistently described as more than what was asked for.
I was in the fetal position sitting on the floor crying hysterically praying to a god I didn't believe in please help me — and at that point there was a surrender and at that point there was an opening.
And I can't actually think of a non-dual authority, quote-unquote, such, you know, like Nisargadatta, Ramana, Papaji, all of them had tremendous hearts and were great devotees and lovers of God and did all sorts of practices of worship and pujas and bhajans and all that stuff.
So this passage that I read actually confirmed that, and that was my way of finally understanding the personal relationship that I have with God or the Divine or whatever you want to call.
When I chose to consciously cooperate with the divine and I sought guidance and I asked God to lift me up... that's when the doors opened wide.
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