The practice of yielding one's defensive walls and integrating another person into one's inner world.
Samarpan means offering or surrendering oneself completely. In bhakti, it's the conscious act of surrendering ego-defenses to love. Mirabai exemplified this—she surrendered societal expectations, family bonds, and personal safety to her devotion. Applied to attraction, samarpan isn't passive or self-erasing; it's a deliberate choice to lower guards and let another person affect us. Many people experience attraction but cannot surrender to it, keeping one foot always toward the exit. Samarpan asks: are we willing to be changed by love? This practice requires immense courage because integration means vulnerability—the risk that we might be hurt, disappointed, or transformed in ways we can't predict. Yet without samarpan, attraction remains surface-level, a dance of personas rather than souls. This concept invites us to examine where we're refusing the transformative power of genuine attraction.
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