Surrender

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Hi, someone requested my feelings about surrender & what i learned from sadhus.

This is my thought.

 

Surrender means many things, from the crook to the saint. It means to surrender

your most precious things. And what is the most precious thing....i would say

life. When we are in risk of dying or somebody close to us is in mortal danger,

we are open to surrender. At that particular moment we surrender to the

absolute, to God or to whatever idea we have of someone superior to us. Many

atheist people recognize a being superior to them when they are in dire need.

 

One day many years ago, i saw death coming to get me and at that time i had a

vague idea of God. I "saw" the newspapers next day "student found death in the

mountains". It was a shocking experience but something good came out of it. I

surrendered to God knowing that He was the only shelter. Days later, i went

down to the city looking for God but there was not much i could find cos

everybody was busy in material activities. I read a lot of books trying to find

God, the Manu Samhita, koran, Bible, Send-Advest, etc, but i was not satisfyied.

The Manu Samhita (in Spanish) said that it was a part of the vedas the source of

material and spiritual knowldge. I left my country & arrived in Europe looking

for the Vedas. One day i went to visit the Hare Krishna temple outside Paris &

met a Spaniard devotee who told me "are you looking for the vedas?, my spiritual

master is translating the cream of the vedas". mmmmm. I started to visit more

often and read the Srimad Bhagavatam, the cream of the Vedas. Soon i found out

that sadhus are students of spiritual knowledge and that they surrender their

lives to God. Soon i realized that there were many sadhus, men & women giving

their time, words, intelligence & life to the service of the Lord. They told me

how to surrender to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by following

the instructions of their Guru, Srila Prabhupada. Those sadhus were sincere and

advancing nicely on the spiritual path.

 

I had been studying western astrology formany years and when i found vedic

astrology, i found one of the most perfect sciences. I found as well that

Krishna is the source of everything includying vedic astrology. Therefore, if

we want to advance in the mysteries of vedic astrology, surrender to the Lord is

very helpful. In whatever science we want to move, we need the encouragement &

help of superior authorities to learn faster & better. In a similar way, if we

please Krishna with our surrender, the mysteries of vedic astrology will be

revealed within our hearts with the help of good teachers.

 

I am indebted to all those sadhus that gave me and still give me inspiration to

continue on the path to the Lord.

 

Yours

natabara