Surrender – In Gita Verse 2.49 O Dhanañjaya, keep all abominable activities far distant by devotional service, and in that consciousness surrender unto the Lord. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers.

Krishna is saying that if your focus is on the fruits then your focus is in the future and not in the present moment and on the available resources. This kind of state is a state of miserly people. They cannot connect themselves with the universe and through those circumstances what universe can give you.

I would like to say the same thing in a different manner. Universe gives us seed, with the potential to grow in a tree. If we started asking the seed to give us the tree immediately it would not be able to give us. But if we sow the seed in the earth then it can become a tree and give us a number of things back.

When we focus on the tree instead of the possibility to grow the seed into the tree we are in the future and dreaming in the future. Universe through the seed gave us potential to grow the tree, possibility for the tree, but if we start dreaming regarding the tree and thinking of the fruits that is a miser thinking, future thinking. When you focus on what possibility is there from the seed, it means you are not neglecting the fact that it has potential to grow as a tree, but as potentiality and not as desired. In the process of growing into the tree the seed disappears to become a tree.

Whole of your consciousness will change, it will be what is needed to act and what the growth possibilities are there through my act, you will feel vastness in you instead of suffocation. 

Krishna is guiding Arjuna for this vastness and bringing back his focus from desire and expectations of fruits to the possibility of this moment.

He is guiding him to surrender to the universe. To become vast.

Surrender is a very paradoxical state: on the one hand you disappear, on the other hand you appear for the first time in your infinite glory, in your multidimensional splendor. Yes, the dewdrop is gone, and gone forever; there is no way to recapture it, to reclaim it. The dewdrop has died as a drop, but in fact the dewdrop has become the ocean, has become oceanic. It still exists, no more as a finite entity, but as something infinite, shoreless, boundless.

This is the meaning of the myth of the phoenix. He dies, he is utterly burned, reduced to ashes, and then suddenly he is reborn out of the ashes – resurrection. The phoenix represents Christ: crucifixion and resurrection. The phoenix represents Buddha: death as an ego, and a new birth as utter egolessness. It represents all those who have known; to know means to be a phoenix. Die as you are, so that you can be that which you really are! Die in all your inauthenticity, phoniness, separation from existence.

We go on believing that we are separate. We are not, not even for a single moment. In spite of your belief, you are one with the whole. But your belief can create nightmares for you; it is bound to create them. To believe that “I am separate” means to create fear. If you are separate from the whole, you can never get rid of fear, because the whole is so vast and you are so small, so tiny, so atomic, and you constantly have to fight the whole so that it does not absorb you. You have to be constantly alert, on guard, so the ocean does not simply take you in. You have to protect yourself behind walls and walls and walls.

All this effort is nothing but fear. And then you are constantly aware that death is reaching you and death is going to destroy your separation.

When the focus is on the fruits and not on the devotional service, you are separate from the universe, not surrender. When your focus is on the devotional service you are one with the universe, you never question, you act as per the demand of this present moment through your subjectivity, vastness, in surrender, as part of the universe.

It is like a mother who gives some work to the child in total trust and surrendering to the mother child does it without questioning. Child never feels separated from his mother when he has been given certain work by mother.

And remember, let me repeat it again: when you surrender to existence you are not surrendering anything real. You are simply surrendering a false notion, you are simply surrendering an illusion, you are surrendering maya. You are surrendering something that you never had with you in the first place. And by surrendering that which you don’t have, you attain that which you have.

And to know that “I am at home, I always have been and I always will be,” is a great moment of relaxation. Knowing that “I am not an outsider, I am not alienated, I am not uprooted,” that “I belong to existence and the existence belongs to me,” all becomes calm and quiet and still. This stillness is surrender.

In the Gita what Krishna tells to Arjuna is not about war but to become self-alert, surrender and then take action. Krishna is not against or for the war, his whole guidance in the Gita is to drop the knowledge and become knower, become the universe.

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