An elderly gentleman, formerly a co-worker with B. V. Narasimha Swami and author of some work, visited the place for the first time. He asked about re-birth, if it is possible for the (subtle body) to get dissolved and be reborn in two years after death.
M.: Yes. Surely. Not only can one be reborn, one may be twenty or forty or even seventy years old in the new body though only two years after death. Śrī Bhagavān cited Lila’s story from Yoga Vāsishta.
“Knowledge without practice accompanying it is superior to practice without knowledge. Practice with knowledge is superior to knowledge without practice acompanying it. Karmaphalātyayah = Nishkāmakarma as of a —action without desire—is superior to knowledge with practice.”
D.: What is the difference between and surrender?
M.: Surrender is Bhakti Yoga. To reach the source of the ‘I’-thought is the destruction of the ego, is the attainment of the goal, is (surrender), , etc.