When people hear the word surrender, they imagine loss. They imagine collapse.
They imagine giving up everything they own—
leaving the world behind,
like the wandering yogi who disappears into the mountains.
But true surrender is not escape.
It is presence.
It does not require a cave—
it requires a crack in the mind
where the Divine can slip through.
Surrender is not giving up your money, your comfort, your home.
It is giving up the illusion that you are in control.
It is the moment you stop wrestling with life and let the current move through you without resistance.
It’s not always grand.
In fact, it begins small:
- Saying “yes” to the breath, even when it’s shallow.
- Letting the moment be exactly what it is.
- Softening your jaw when life tightens it.
- Letting your tears fall instead of holding them back.
- Watching yourself feel rage and choosing not to build a story around it.
- Letting go of what you thought should happen, and bowing to what is.
This is tantra in motion.
Not renunciation of life—
but full participation,
without grasping.
The yogi goes to the cave to meet silence.
But, DeviRa, brings the cave into the kitchen, the weeding of the yard,
The morning flame of the sun on your skin.
That is the new path.
That is the embodied surrender.
And what happens when you surrender?
You don’t disappear.
You become larger.
You make space for the divine to act through you.
Surrender is not the end of power.
It is its beginning.
