{"id":4601,"date":"2015-11-17T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2015-11-17T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:45:09","slug":"on-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2015\/11\/17\/on-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"On Surrender&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Reiki teacher, Prasad, narrated this to us. I paraphrase,<\/p>\n<p>The setting\u00a0is the sabha of the Kauravas, and the scene is the <em>Vastraharan<\/em>. As long as Draupadi holds on to the cloth that covers her, Dushsasana is successful. It is when she leaves that cloth, and takes that leap of faith, puts her hands \u00a0up and tells God &#8216;this is your problem now, do sometihng&#8217; &#8211; that the cloth keeps growing, and growing, and growing, till Dushsasna loses. As long as she thought she was the one who was fighting, she was losing the battle. It is when she parks her ego and calls out for help, unreservedly, that help arrives.<\/p>\n<p>i wonder about this at times. Sometimes i just say a silent prayer and leave it to to divine intervention. When i say silent prayer &#8211; it is usually colloquiol &#8211; &#8216;i can&#8217;t handle this anymore, you sort it out&#8217; type.And, it usually works.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. it has been one of those years &#8211; where i have thought about this story, a bit too frequently. Asking for help is not something i do easily. I don&#8217;t even think about it, most of the time. But, this year, i have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/AacrCu\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/5663\/22420211024_c10ed3e8f1_z.jpg?resize=640%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"glass and wire\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(a bit like this year &#8211; shot yesterday &#8211; shards\u00a0of glass meeting barbed wire )&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Reiki teacher, Prasad, narrated this to us. I paraphrase, The setting\u00a0is the sabha of the Kauravas, and the scene is the Vastraharan. As long as Draupadi holds on to the cloth that covers her, Dushsasana is successful. 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