Emancipation from the grip of Life and freedom from the labyrinths of actions is made possible for all and attained by a few when a Perfect Master, Sadguru or Qutub is approached and his grace and guidance are invoked. The Perfect Master’s invariable counsel is complete surrender to him. Those few who do surrender their all — mind, body, possessions — so that with their complete surrender they also surrender consciously their own “self” to the Perfect Master, have their very being left conscious to commit actions, but activated now only by the dictates of the Master.
Such actions, after the surrender of one’s “self,” are no longer one’s own actions. Therefore, these actions are capable of uprooting all other actions which feed and sustain Life. Life then becomes gradually lifeless and eventually succumbs, by the grace of the Perfect Master, to its final death. Life, which once debarred the persevering aspirant from realizing Perpetual Existence, can now no longer work its own deception.
-www.lordmeher.org, p3426
January, 1954; Mahabaleshwar