One day when I was sitting with Babaji in the Dharmshalla a very simply dressed man came in and sat down quietly. After a while he asked Babaji a question. He asked, “In the scriptures it says that we should surrender our mind and intellect to Bhagwan. If we did not use our mind and intellect would we not be insane?” Babaji gently replied, “No, if we surrendered our mind and intellect we would be swastha (Healthy or situated in the Self). The others who do not surrender the mind and intellect are insane.” The man sat silently for a while and then getting up and bowing to Babaji he left.
I was very interested in the question and answer and later on when walking on the sand with Babaji, I asked him, “Babaji, how would it be possible to completely give up the mind and intellect?” Babaji replied, “They can be surrendered to Bhagwan and to reach the end of the path, they must be given up and we must live with complete surrender to Bhagwan. It can be practised slowly until it is achieved.”
Nani Mai