Dedication or Prapatti means total surrender. There is a formidable force that stands between man and God like a limiting wall. This power that is separating the devotee from God is the ‘ego’. Only when we succeed in destroying the ego can we merge into Divinity. First, we must be able to surrender this ego to God. Prapatti means surrendering of body, mind, intellect, awareness, and senses, they being dependent on the ego. Money, might, caste, education, beauty, kingdom, penance, and arrogance are all related to ego. Together or individually, they are comprised of ego. Among them, pride in wealth and education are much worse. There are medicines for all kinds of diseases. But the disease of ego cannot be cured by any kind of medicine. There is only one medicine that is capable of subduing this disease of ego; that is Divinity. No other medicine except Divinity is capable of curing this formidable disease. – Divine Discourse, Jan 21, 1988.