# Responsive Cooperation *On how Kṛṣṇa reciprocates proportionally with surrender* --- ### Surrender Cent Percent > There is a verse in the *Bhagavad-gītā, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham*: "It is up to you to. If you surrender cent per cent, then I am also fully cent per cent for you." But if you have got discrimination—"Certain percentage for my wife, certain percentage for my children, certain percentage for my country, certain percent.," so on, so on, so on, so on, ultimately, "Zero for God"—then God is also zero. It is up to you. But if you take God—"You are my everything"—then He is also for you, everything. It is up to you. *Parāvaratvam.* He does not discriminate; you discriminate. — [[spoken/1976/760305sb.may|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.27, Māyāpur, March 5, 1976]] --- ### Two Hundred Rupees for God > There are many persons, they come to Vṛndāvana, and whatever they have earned throughout the whole life, so they give everything to the wife and children and make contract that "I am going to Vṛndāvana. You send me at least two hundred rupees for my expenditure." "And what about two *lakhs* and *crores?*" "Oh, that is yours. The two *lakhs* and *crores,* what I have earned, that is for you, my dear children, my dear wife, and you give me two hundred for God. So I am going to Vṛndāvana." So Kṛṣṇa is very intelligent: "All right, I am also for you two hundred. [laughter] I am also for you two hundred." *Ye yathā mām.* This is the meaning, real meaning. *Ye yathā māṁ prapadya.* Kṛṣṇa is for you. It is called. What is the exact word? Responsive cooperation. "If you have surrendered to Me cent per cent, then I respond cent per cent. If you have surrendered twenty-five percent, then I respond twenty-five percent." This is the position. — [[spoken/1976/760305sb.may|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.27, Māyāpur, March 5, 1976]] --- ### Fully Surrender > This is *māyā.* We are trying to be happy in this material. It will never be possible. But these fools and rascals, they do not know. They are making big, big plans how to become happy, how to become, in our country, in our home, in our society, in our family, and so on, so on, so on. This means we are simply becoming entangled. *Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho 'yam.*. Ahaṁ moha,* illusion. It will never be possible. Therefore, the conclusion is we should fully surrender cent per cent to Kṛṣṇa, and then we become happy. *Saṁsevayā surataror iva te prasādaḥ.* The example is: just like the desire tree, *kalpa-vṛkṣa.* It can fulfill any desire, any desire. We have got so many desires. Kṛṣṇa can fulfill all the desires. Please surrender to Kṛṣṇa. This is the process. — [[spoken/1976/760305sb.may|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.27, Māyāpur, March 5, 1976]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa Cannot Commit Mistake > Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that *bhūya eva mahā., śṛṇu me paramaṁ vacaḥ *. Everything what Kṛṣṇa says, that is *paramaṁ,* supreme truth. Kṛṣṇa cannot commit any mistake. The difference between Kṛṣṇa and ourself is that whatever we do, they are subjected to so many deficiencies, because we commit mistake, we are disillusioned, and our senses are imperfect and we cheat. Kṛṣṇa is not like that. Therefore whatever He says, that is supreme, that is transcendental. And still, because we are conditional, Kṛṣṇa is speaking to Arjuna in so many different ways just to convince him. This is the duty, because Kṛṣṇa has been accepted by Arjuna as the spiritual master. *Śiṣyas te 'haṁśādhi māṁ prapannam*. And Kṛṣṇa is teaching him. — [[spoken/1973/730306bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 10.1–3, Calcutta, March 6, 1973]] --- ### Mahā-bāho: Great Determination > So the *māyā* has captured us. Why? Because we have defied the supremacy of Kṛṣṇa. So all of us, more or less. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in the Tenth Chapter, *bhūya eva mahā-bāho*. Arjuna is great soldier; therefore he is addressed as *mahā-bāho. Bāho,* we have got *bāho.* We have got *bāho.* But Arjuna's *bāho* is different: he can fight with thousands of men alone. We cannot fight even with one man, although we have got this *bāho.* Therefore he is addressed as *mahā-bāho.* And another meaning is that unless one is very strong in determination, he cannot make any advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He must be a hero. He must be able to fight with the laws of material nature. — [[spoken/1973/730306bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 10.1–3, Calcutta, March 6, 1973]] --- *5 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on responsive cooperation*