A Complete Surrender: The Crowning Movement of Gita’s Yoga

There is no real contradiction; the two passages (‘Deliver the self by means of the Self’ (Oita, Ch. VI, 5); and “Abandon all dharmas” (Ibid., Ch. XVIII, 66)) indicate in the Gita’s system two different movements of its yoga, the complete surrender being the crowning movement. One has first to conquer the lower nature, deliver the self involved in the lower movement by means of the higher Self which rises into the divine nature; at the same time one offers all one’s actions including the inner action of the yoga as a sacrifice to the Purushottama, the transcendent and immanent Divine. When one has risen into the higher Self, has the knowledge and is free, one makes the complete surrender to the Divine, abandoning all other dharmas, living only by the divine Consciousness, the divine Will and Force, the divine Ananda.