Surrender—Most Secret, Ultimate, Final Technique
Through out Bhagavad Gītā, Kṛṣṇa gives Arjuna many methods to evolve from the ordinary level to the higher level of completion. Every chapter, every verse, is a technique or method to reach the Divine consciousness. After listening to so many techniques, Arjuna is totally confused. He asks the Master, 'Please tell me, what is the ultimate technique? Tell me the final way, the ultimate technique.'
Finally, Kṛṣṇa says very beautifully, 'This is the last technique, the ultimate technique: Dropping all the dharma, dropping all the confusions, surrendering at My feet. I will take care and give you liberation.'
This is the essence of the whole Bhagavad Gītā. This is a beautiful verse:
'Drop all techniques, all methods and all the roots.' Dharma means the way of living in the space of completion. 'Drop all roots, all methods and all ways of living. Drop everything. Surrender everything at My feet.'
sarvadharmān parityajya māmekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (18.66)—'Don't carry even a bit; just complete and drop everything, surrender your whole being to Me.' ahaṁ tvām sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā sucaḥ—'I will remove all darkness, all incompletions from your being. I will liberate you. I will complete you. Do not grieve.'
Listen. Surrender is nothing but a clear, conscious decision to be complete. It's the final word given by Kṛṣṇa. In every Master's life, the final teaching is surrender. You will conclude, 'Why can't the energy that can move my body, this sun, moon and Earth, move and complete my life?' Understand. Existence is intelligence. The Divine is intelligence.
Listen. Just decide consciously to be complete and surrender. Surrender everything at the feet of God who runs this world. Don't worry. Just decide to let this run your life.
After that, naturally, you will have a self-doubt, whether you have surrendered or not. Surrender your doubt also. Don't think, 'First I will change, and then I will surrender.' No. Surrender as you are, consciously, totally. Whatever 'mine' is in your hands, surrender completely. Your being will be flooded with 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 enter into the Divine energy. May you become eternal bliss, Nitya ānanda.
Here ends the ultimate teaching of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and here starts our Enlightened life!
Let us offer our gratitude to the great Masters. First, offer gratitude to the great Master Śrī Kṛṣṇa who showered these great truths upon the whole Universe. Let us give our gratitude to Him. Then come all the Masters who preserved these truths so we can experience these truths in our life. Let us give our gratitude to the entire Guru Paramparā, the lineage of Gurus.
Please close your eyes and remain in silence for a while.
I bless you all. Let you all radiate with completion. And, let you all radiate with integrity, authenticity, responsibility and enriching with Eternal bliss, Nitya ānanda. Thank you.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra: the blind king, who was administering kingdom of Hastināpur, father of the Kauravas. Gītā begins with his questions to his charioteer, Sañjaya; embodiment of self-doubt, blinding ignorance.
Duḥkha: pain, sorrow
Duryodhana: son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; the Kaurava Prince King, main war opponent, who refused to give even a needle tip of land to his cousins, the Pānḍavas.
Dvaita: (lit. duality) school of thought that says the individual self is separate from existence