The space between resistance and surrender

Should we always surrender and accept? Is it bad to resist? The current course that I'm doing is called sattva. And it is about the interspaces, or those experiences, and the intelligence between two opposite conclusions, or two dualistic propositions, for example, good and evil, or right and wrong, or in this case between surrender and resistance. In this video I share with you a very simple but beautiful story, which I hope will illustrate for you this interesting space in an archetypal way.

This is a story about a young boy, who has a father who is a very powerful king. Now this king assumes that He is immortal because he thinks that he has received a bone from the gods for immortality, but he's not immortal. No sooner than he assumes immortality, he unleashes a reign of terror and brutality. This is also illustrative of the nature of our mind of our ego, our mental consciousness. And that is that even if we just assume we are immortal, that is enough to make our minds and our mental consciousness, brutal.

Anyhow, this king is unable to convince his own son, he's able to terrify everybody else, and he is dominating Earth, but he is not able to convince his own son about his power, his son continues his invocation of the Divine as something more expansive and imminent everywhere. Can you imagine here is this very powerful king of Earth and what is threatening him is his little son! Isn't that the nature of our ego as well, that even when we think we're immortal, and we think that nothing should threaten us once we are immortal, but the truth is that we, probably will feel even more insecure at the slightest sign of what we might think is threatening us. The father tries to do all sorts of things to his own son, he tries to poison him, throw him off the cliff. The son survives all this. And finally, in absolute frustration, the father says, Alright, you tell me that the Divine is imminent everywhere. And he looks at this pillar in his palace, and he says, is the divine in this pillar. The son says very confidently, yes. The father takes a his weapon which is the mace, and he smashes the pillar.

No sooner he smashes it than is released from this pillar a human-lion, which explodes out of this pillar, and destroys the king. What we are attending to here is the pillar, and this explosive emergence. It is called stambha, the archetypal practice of the dance of the pillar, and the emergence, explosive emergence is the Pralaya, or the great flood. So you have the pillar and the great flood. What is asked of us or what is the invitation in an archetypal way, is that we don't have to resist. Neither do we have to accept. But we stand our ground. We don't stand our ground in just some kind of neutral stillness. Rather we are the pillar that holds that human-lion within. So we stand pregnant with potential, with incredible energy, with aliveness and with passion. And when we can hold that stance, then that release or the explosion, the great flood will happen. It's inevitable that when there is a kind of buildup of potential energy it must be released.