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Sañjaya said: Thus have I heard the
conversation of two great souls, Kṛṣṇa
and Arjuna. And so wonderful is that
message that my hair stands on end.

vyasā-prasādāc chrutavān etad
guhyam ahaṁ param yogam
yogeśvarāt kṛṣṇāt sākṣāt
kathayataḥ svayam By the mercy
of Vyāsa, I have heard these
most confidential words directly
from Kṛṣṇa, the master of all
mysticism, who was speaking
personally to Arjuna

O King, as I repeatedly recall this
wondrous and holy dialogue between
Keśava (Kṛṣṇa) and Arjuna, I take
pleasure, being thrilled at every
moment.

O King, when I remember the
wonderful form of Lord Kṛṣṇa, I am
struck with even greater wonder, and I
rejoice again and again.

yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho
dhanurdharaḥ tatra śrīrvijayo bhūtir
dhruvā nītirmatirmama

Wherever there is Yogeśvara Kṛṣṇa, the
Master of all mystics, and wherever
there is Pārtha, the supreme carrier of
bow and arrow, there will certainly be
opulence, victory, extraordinary power,
and morality. That is my opinion.

In these last verses Arjuna and
Sañjaya take over. Arjuna bows
down to the JagadGuru, Master of
Cosmos, and says, ‘All my doubts
are gone and by Your grace, my
memory is regained, O Acyuta; I
understand. I am ready. I shall obey
whatever you say and I shall fight.

The rest is history. Under the
guidance of Arjuna, the Kaurava
army is annihilated. All the Kaurava
brothers, all the great teachers and
all the great warriors perish. The
Pāṇḍava brothers win and Yudhiṣṭira
conducts the rājasūya and other fire
sacrifices to signify his ascendance to
the throne.

It is also history that in due course
all the Pāṇḍava brothers die, as does
the great Master Kṛṣṇa. He gives up
His mortal form. This is the story of
life. As long as you are in any form,
the form will perish. The energy
lives on. That is what Kṛṣṇa taught
in these chapters and verses.
Sacrifice your form and gain the
formless.

Now Sañjaya comes back into the
picture. Neither Kṛṣṇa nor Arjuna
can speak since both of them are in
a different mood. Arjuna has
disappeared and Kṛṣṇa is in ecstasy.
Both are in no mood to speak.

As soon as we hear the word
‘surrender,’ we think: Oh, this is
the easiest technique. For
surrendering, we don’t need to do
anything. In any other method or
meditation, we must do something.
If it is a pūjā or a fire ritual, we
need to do something. For every
technique, we must do something.
For surrender, we don’t need to do
anything.’ Hence everyone feels
surrendering means doing nothing.

Deeper Meanings of Surrender
There are three levels of
surrender:
First: Surrendering the I. Second:
Surrendering the Mine. Third:
Surrendering the I and Mine,
both. Let me explain step-by-step.

Surrendering the ‘I’ is surrendering
the ego, the mind, the root thought
patterns, the mental setup. This is
surrendering your conditions, your
cognitions.

When you really, intensely offer
your mental setup, or root thought
patterns at the feet of the Master or
God, it gets totally disintegrated.
The mind in itself is a pattern, a
habit. Your ‘I’ is a set of habits.
Your ego is a set of conditions.

If somebody criticizes you, you
immediately choose to react. You
become disturbed. After that, you
criticize him in return or you rebuke
him. If somebody praises you, you
choose to be flattered. You give him
a good smile and feel great. Even
this choice is your root thought
pattern. It is your mental cognition.
When you surrender the 'I', your
root thought patterns, to the Divine,
you can't choose. When you really
surrender, even if somebody
criticizes you, you can't choose to be
offended or feel disturbed.
Whenever you bring in your root
thought patterns, you react in
accordance with your mental
patterns. When this is still the case,
you cannot say you have
surrendered. Real surrender can and
will transform your life.

Ninety-nine percent of your
worries, fears and greed never come
true. Whatever one percent comes
true is always good for you! When
you surrender your ‘I,’ your
suffering is transformed into the
space of completion bringing
intelligence, love, joy, and ecstasy.
When you surrender your ‘mine,’
your richness becomes the space of
creation for wealth, power, and
celebration.

You start really living to
enrich others and yourself
with your possessions.
You enjoy and celebrate
whatever you have. You
start living it, and really
feel ecstasy and joy from
the things that you have.
You go beyond the fear of
‘When will I lose them?

Listen. When I say both
‘I’ and ‘mine,’ I mean
surrendering your whole
life unconditionally,
completely.

First just decide consciously to be
complete and surrender. Surrender
everything at the feet of God who
runs this world. You don’t even
need to have any name or form in
your mind, ‘Oh, I surrendered to
this god. So what will happen?’
Don’t worry. Just surrender to the
energy that runs the whole world.
Then everybody is included under
that title— God, Guru, Divine,
energy of this whole Universe. Just
decide to let this run your life.

Surrender your doubt also. Then you
will see the transformation happens
in you just as you are. Don't think,
'First I will change, and then I will
surrender.' No. You cannot do that.
Surrender as you are, consciously,
totally. Whatever is in your hands,
whatever 'mine' is in your hands,
whatever position is in your hands,
surrender completely. Your being
will be flooded with a new feeling, a
new life, a new energy and a new
bliss.

So, may you surrender at
the feet of the Divine. May
you enter the space of
completion. May you be in
the energy. May you enter
into the Divine energy. May
this happen to you. May
you be in and may you
become eternal bliss, Nitya
ānanda.

Helping the students
understand the levels of
surrender. Helping the
students transform their
lives from mithya
(illusion) to nitya ānanda
(eternal bliss).