The Dissolving of Egoism (Ahankara)
Surrender quietly undoes the ego, the false center that claims to be the doer and owner of life.
Narada teaches that what truly blocks divine love is ahankara, the proud sense of being a separate doer at the center of one's world. Surrender is the gradual melting of this illusion, as the devotee comes to feel that the real doer, giver, and sustainer is the Beloved alone. With the ego's grip loosened, life flows with a new grace, no longer dammed by the constant assertion of 'I'. This is not the erasure of personality but the healing of its distortion, the personality restored to its rightful place as servant rather than tyrant.
When the ego bows, the Beloved is revealed as the true doer.
Narada's account of egoism as the root obstacle parallels Advaita's diagnosis of ahankara, the ego-sense both traditions identify as the core distortion to be dissolved.
Narada Bhakti Sutras