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What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us.

Nirmala Srivastava

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Nirmala Srivastava
Age: 87 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 21
Died: 2011
Died: February 23
Yoga Instructor
Become
Ocean
Conditioning
Love
Meditation
Wellness
Built
Barriers
Wisdom
Artificial
Greater
Drop
Spirit
Ego
Cannot
Surrender
Surrendering
Around
Yoga
Dissolve

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