We do not judge according to the law; we judge according to what our mind or ego wants. What the mind wants is one thing; what the Lord or our karmas dictate is another. The greatest release is surrender unto the Lord so that He takes care of your vibrations; they are merged or concentrated unto Him. You might have seen in some of your meditations, whenever you have a nice meditation, all of a sudden your spine gets straight and you feel as if something is rising up. This is how vibrations lose their crookedness, and once they lose their crookedness, kundalini rises up. That is called shakti. This force or power that creates the cause and effect of karmas gets straightened out and you come back to your Substance, your True Self, Spirit, Light, Pure Consciousness.
      Between the form and the Substance is the phenomenon. It is all illusory but so perfect. Why? Because it is created from Perfection. Just as if you create anything from the Light, it will be part of the Light, even though the phenomenon is fleeting and changeful, because it is created from the Substance it must have a certain quality of the Substance, which is Perfection. However, because of its changefulness, we do not see this Perfection. In deep meditation, if you get into a very calm consciousness, you will see all your karmas and they will not trouble you at all. There they become relaxed. Knowing how to do this is a science, a holy science.

 

      Potentially you are capable of doing this but in your manifestation—what we call dynamism—if you are not able to do it, then we say, “Surrender unto the Lord and then leave it up to Him.” Provided you leave up to Him and do not begin to advise Him. And when He actually frees you, you may sometimes not like it. But impress upon your mind that everything likable is not necessarily good and everything dislikable is not necessarily bad. If God advises something, your duty is to follow it. This is for your benevolence, for your good. The reason is: you don’t know your past and future. He knows. In the Mahabharata epic, when Krishna was advising Arjuna on the battlefield, Arjuna had dilemmas and confusion and doubts. He was a human being like you and me and he was discussing, in a way, with God. There are three categories of followers: those who mechanically obey, those who discuss and discuss until either you convince them or they get tired and accept it, and those who, with devotion and faith, sweetly surrender unto the Lord. Arjuna was of the middle quality: rational with human failings. But when Krishna saw that Arjuna was wasting time—they were about to start the battle and Krishna couldn’t take him to a cave in the Himalayas to meditate for twelve years—Krishna just told him, “Now look: I know all your births—past and future. You don’t know. Do as I am telling you.”