POWERFUL COGNITION
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. Surrender all your actions and the fruits of those actions to Krishna.
तेषामहं समुद्धर्ता मृत्युसंसारसागरात् ।मृत्युसंसारसागरात्
भवामि नचिरात्पार्थ मय्यावेशितचेतसाम्
॥१२=७॥
teṣām aham samuddhartā mṛtyu-saṁsāra-
sāgarāt । bhavāmi na cirātpārtha mayy
āveśita cetasām
regarding Me as their
supreme goal, whose minds are set in
Me, I shall deliver them soon from their
ocean of the birth and death cycle.
POWERFUL COGNITION
Serve Krishna. Meditate upon Krishna. Consider attaining Krishna consciousness as your supreme goal. Be devoted to Krishna. It is Krishna's promise "When you surrender to Me, I shall liberate you.'
But those who worship me with single-minded devotion, renouncing all activities unto Me, regarding Me as their Supreme goal, whose minds are set in Me, O Pārtha, I shall deliver them soon from the ocean of the birth and death cycle.
Kṛṣṇa makes a promise here. Kṛṣṇa says unequivocally, ‘I shall deliver them from their material existence, the ocean of saṃsāra, the cycle of life and death, mṛtyu-saṃsāra-sāgarāt. All that the Lord asks is that the devotee be devoted to Him. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘If you surrender to Me, surrender all your actions and the fruits of those actions to Me, do my service, meditate upon Me, remain single-minded upon My consciousness, I shall then liberate you. I shall make sure you never need to be born again.’
It is the roar of a lion. It is the roar of the King of this Universe. ‘Surrender to Me and I shall liberate you. Serve Me and I shall liberate you.’
To most of us, God is only a concept
and we worship that concept. Most of
the time, we beg of that concept. We
pray, ‘Give me this O Lord, give me
that O Lord.’ When we have one
prayer answered, we begin the next. As
long as God answers our prayers, as
long as the Master provides us with
what we ask for, our faith in Him lasts.
The moment the prayer goes
unanswered, our faith dissolves.
We move on to another God or Master.
We do not realize that often God does
not answer our prayers out of sheer
compassion, out of sheer love for us.
From time to time, God in His
infinite wisdom turns down our
requests such as wanting to become
rich, wanting to be well, wanting to
have children, and so on.
We then move awaylisten.
Surrendering to the Divine is not
conditional. It must be total. There
can be no ‘ifs’, ‘ands’, or ‘buts’. It
cannot be, ‘If you grant my
prayers, I shall be devoted to you.’
That is business. Most of our
relationship with God is business.
from Him.
There are three kinds of
surrender. First, there is
surrender of one’s intellect.
For many, this is possible.
Once we understand that
there is a Universal energy
far greater than us, most of
us can accept and surrender
intellectually to that
supreme power. At least we
can say, ‘I surrender.’
That’s how many of us
prostrate in a temple or
before a master. The entire
body touches the ground
signifying our surrender.
For that moment, our ego
takes a vacation.
Surrender at the next level is emotional. One can melt at the thought of God or master. There is love, there is gratitude pouring out of our hearts and we feel tears streaming down. We become bhaktas, devotees. Rāmakṛṣṇa said, ‘If you have tears in your eyes when you think of God or your Master, be very clear, this is your last birth! You are ready for liberation.’
We are ready but not liberated until we reach the last and third step. This step of surrender is the surrender of one’s senses. Our surrender is total at this stage: complete, spontaneous, instant and natural. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘When you surrender to Me, I shall liberate you.’
To reach Him,
we must
surrender totally
without
deviation. Our
senses must be
surrendered to
Him. Our entire
consciousness,
our complete
awareness must
only be of Him
and nothing else.
Nothing else
needs to be done.
The technique is
so simple.
Surrender and I
shall save you,’
says the Master.
GOALS:
The message
of Krishna for
the students
is that
Surrender is
the simplest
technique for
liberation.
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