# Surrender *On surrendering to Kṛṣṇa and accepting His protection* --- ### Cannot Make Solution by Argument > A person like Arjuna, he was not an ordinary person; still, in the eyes of the perfect personality, he happened to be a fool. So this material knowledge, if anyone is very proud of his material knowledge... The condition is that you must agree to surrender. That is required. The first proposition, the first condition, is that you must agree to surrender. — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa Takes Charge > If you agree, everything is there. If you don't agree, what can be done? He gives you guarantee that "I take charge of you." Ahaṁ tvāṁ pariksyāmi sarva-pāpebhyo... Why don't you surrender? Say it—what is your objection? There is no objection? Then why don't you do it? — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### The Hog's Mentality > Just like the hog, when Brahmā said, "You are Indra. You have been cursed to become a hog. Now whatever is done is done; now I've come to take you. Please come." "No, sir. I cannot go. I cannot leave my responsibilities." Similarly, Kṛṣṇa comes to claim you, reclaim you: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja. "No, Sir, I will not come." — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Like Arjuna > Arjuna was thinking in that term. But when he was puzzled, he said, "Kṛṣṇa, I am now actually puzzled. I know that You can explain what is my duty. Therefore I surrender unto You as Your disciple." Śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam: "I surrender unto You. Please instruct me what is to be done." — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### This Is Real Religion > So this Bhagavad-gītā is real religion, because it is directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the benefit of the whole human society. And Kṛṣṇa says also that "If you have got any other faith, religion, you give it up." Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam: only one. God is one; religion is one. — [[spoken/1973/730113bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1, Bombay, 1973]] --- ### Protection Is Assured > Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. You are saved from all the reactions of this māyā simply by surrendering to Kṛṣṇa. Why don't you accept this? Why do you say that "All right. Please, kindly, Mr. Tiger, I have no other way. Please eat me." That's not very good idea. When there is precautionary measures, why don't you accept it? — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Purify Your Desire > You have to purify desire. You have to desire only that "I shall serve Kṛṣṇa." That desire. Then all other desires will be purified. Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam. As soon as I take to the side of Kṛṣṇa, everything becomes nirmalam. And unless you are nirmala, you cannot serve Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa's Independence Respected > When Kṛṣṇa says that "Now I have instructed you everything. What you are going to do?" Kṛṣṇa was not certain that "Arjuna will accept My advice." That independence is there. But he said, "Yes," kariṣye vacanaṁ tava, "I shall accept." That is required. — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Whole Teaching of Bhagavad-gītā > That is the whole teachings of Bhagavad-gītā. We should stop all this nonsense, benevolent work, "I am nationalist," "I am socialist," "I am this," "I am that." You can go on with that work, but so long you do not agree to be Kṛṣṇa-ized, or Kṛṣṇa conscious, your position of repeated birth and death under different condition of life will continue. — [[spoken/1970/701225sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.44, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Take Shelter > One has to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa. You cannot practice kṛṣṇa-yoga by taking shelter of anything else. You have to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa. Mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ. This yoga has to be practiced, as Mahārāja Ambarīṣa did: sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ. — [[spoken/1973/730113bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1, Bombay, 1973]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on surrender* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]