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Let us narrate to you a short story from the Epic Ramayana to understand the concept of Surrender. In Rāmāyaṇa, the great Hindu epic history of Lord Śrī Rāma's incarnation, Lakṣman is the younger brother of Lord Rāma, who devoted his whole life in selflessly serving the feet of Śrī Rama and Mātā Sītā.

When Sītā is kidnapped by Rāvaṇa, some of the vānaras (monkeys) who went in search of her, gathered some of the jewels thrown by her as she was being taken away and bring it back to Rāma for identifying them. Lakṣman could only recognize the anklets of Sītā.

Rāma asked, 'why are you not able to recognize the jewelry?' Lakṣman said, 'No. I have never seen Mother Sita above her feet. I look at both of you only when I do nāmaskār (surrendering salutation), but I never looked directly or intensely.'

Lakṣman never ever saw the upper jewelry of Mātā Sītā. Lakṣman did not even know whose feet he was falling at, he just saw the feet. He was clear in his realization that he was not that big; he felt humbleness without humility the power of concentration in both the reciter and the listener.