As we celebrate the Purnahuti of the Veda Purusha Saptaha Jnana Yajna, what is it that we must offer? What can we offer or surrender? Bhagawan clearly explains to us today.

You can and do announce, “I surrender my mind, my thoughts and my feelings to God.” But your monkey-mind escapes from your hold; how then can you surrender it to God? What authority do you possess to offer something you are not master of? Is your body under full control? When blood starts flowing out of a vein on your hand, you cannot stop the flow. You rush to a hospital and call out, “Doctor! Doctor! Tie a bandage!” When you suffer from a stroke and limbs on one side are paralysed, you are helplessly unable to repair them. How can you dedicate your body, which you cannot rule over? Statements like surrendering the body, mind and heart are only rhetoric sanctioned by tradition and long usage. The act of surrender is often highlighted as Atma-arpana. This is even more ridiculous. The dweller within the body has no birth or death, desire or despair, attachment or bondage. In truth, that dweller is the God of Gods who resides as Atma in you. This is what the seers have experienced. So Atma-arpana is a meaningless expression. You have nothing in you or belonging to you that you can claim as yours to offer to God. Then, what does surrender of the self signify or imply? To experience God as Omnipresent, to be aware of nothing other than God—this is true surrender. To see God in everything, everywhere, at all times, is true Sharanagati.