Acceptance is the secret, and this is what surrender, in spirituality, really means. It means total acceptance of all that is given to us by way of life in the concrete faith that we are but getting back what we have put into the bank of samskara in the past, and accepting the fact that we alone are responsible for all that is happening to us, and all is good for us as foundations laid by us for our own future evolution. This is the real meaning, and deep significance, of surrender.

Spider's Web Vol 1, 5th February 1985, Denmark

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In meditation we experience certain states of existence which make us slowly forget this world. It is not as if we relinquish our hold on this world or we renounce something. In true renunciation we do not renounce anything. The objects which have been enslaving us, they renounce us. It is not we who are attending, it is the whole grasp of our attention which is making us slaves and when our attention goes to something higher, automatically this attraction falls off. Then there is no power in external objects of the world to attract us, to enslave us, to hold us in bondage.

Principles Vol II, p. 88

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By this training of yoga, we are therefore made capable of working without either attraction or repulsion. We are made capable of existing without love or desire, hatred or antagonism. Because we are in communion with what is inside ourselves, the Ultimate, that association alone becomes valuable to us, and the rest of the world ceases to have any meaning for us. Therefore all tendencies, all attributes, all desires and hates, all these are struck off. And as my Master says this is real renunciation. When we develop by spiritual growth we renounce without really knowing that we are renouncing. By enriching ourselves and coming closer and closer to the Ultimate within ourselves, we become more and more dependent on that inner self. So all this becomes possible through the simple act of meditation.

Principles Vol. 1, p. 63