In Integral Yoga, surrender is understood as a conscious, complete offering of one’s whole being—mind, life, body, thoughts, emotions, will, desires, and actions—to the Divine or Divine Mother. It is not a passive resignation but an active, dynamic consent that the Divine Consciousness and Force may act in and through the individual. This movement places the Divine, rather than the ego, at the center of life, and expresses a deep trust in a wisdom greater than one’s own limited ideas and preferences. One’s personal will, attachments, and the sense of being the independent “doer” are progressively offered up with the inner attitude, “Let Thy will, not mine, prevail.” In this way, surrender becomes a form of complete consecration, where even the mixed or negative movements of the nature are not hidden or indulged, but consciously given to the Divine for purification and transformation.

Such surrender holds a central importance because Integral Yoga aims not at a partial change but at a total, supramental transformation of the whole being, something the ego and its personal effort cannot accomplish by themselves. By removing ego-centric obstructions, surrender creates a receptive condition in which the Divine Shakti can directly work on all parts of the nature, dissolving resistances and allowing a higher consciousness to descend. It opens the being to guidance, strength, knowledge, and capacity that exceed ordinary human limits, and thus serves as both the safeguard and the power-source of the path. Through this attitude, life itself becomes the field of practice: every thought, feeling, and action can be inwardly offered, every difficulty seen as material for the Divine working. When sincere, complete, and sustained, surrender becomes the fundamental attitude that allows spiritual evolution to proceed, making possible an integral realization and a progressive union with the Divine.