When The River Lets Go

There is a moment when trying no longer serves. When the mind has offered all its strategies, all its solutions and the heart simply exhales.

We think surrender is defeat.

But if you ask nature, the universe, it is not. It is not collapse. It is not giving up. It is opening. Softening. Trusting what cannot be controlled.

Surrender is the river remembering it was never meant to carry the mountain.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says:

"Abandon all varieties of dharma and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."

This is not about abandoning effort. It’s about releasing the illusion that effort alone can carry us home.

when you have tried all the ways,

and the way still hides,

let go, let go,

not out of despair,

but out of reverence,

lay your plans down,

like petals at the feet of what you do not yet understand,

the wind does not resent the sky,

the seed does not demand the season,

surrender is not the end,

it is the quiet trust that you were never alone.

If your hands are tired, if your heart is heavy with trying, let it fall. Let it be held.

Surrender is not weakness. It is remembering you don’t have to hold it all.

And remember,

You’re not failing. You’re flowing.

Echo back if surrender has found you or if you're simply learning to flow with it.

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