*SURRENDER*
This is a delightful anecdote about Krishna ‘s woodwind… Regular Krishna would go in the garden and say to all the plants, “I cherish you”. The plants were extremely cheerful and reacted by saying “Krishna, we adore You as well”. One day Krishna hurried rapidly into the garden exceptionally frightened. He went to the bamboo plant and the bamboo plant inquired, “Krishna, what’s off-base?”
Krishna said, “I have something to ask you, yet it is extremely troublesome”. The bamboo stated, “Let me know: on the off chance that I can, I will offer it to you”. So Krishna said “I require your life. I have to cut you”. The bamboo thought for some time and after that said “You don’t have some other decision. You don’t have some other way ?” Krishna stated, “No, no other way”. What’s more, it said “alright” and surrendered himself. So Krishna cut the bamboo n made openings in it, and each time, he cut the openings, the bamboo was crying in agony …
Krishna made an excellent woodwind out of it n this woodwind was with him constantly. 24 hours every day, it was with Krishna. Indeed, even the Gopis were desirous of the flute. They stated, “Look, Krishna is our Lord, however yet we get to invest just some energy with him. He awakens with you, He lays down with you, all the time you are with him”. Gopis asked the bamboo,
“Disclose to us your mystery.
What mystery do you have, that the Lord treasures you so much ?”
What’s more, the bamboo said
“The mystery is that I surrendered myself, what’s more, he did whatever was appropriate for me, in the process I had to experience a great deal of agony. Furthermore, the Lord does whatever he needs with me, at whatever point he needs with me and anyway he needs with me. I have simply turned into His instrument”. So this is finished surrender: where God can do whatever He needs with you, at whatever point He needs, as He needs. Trust Him totally and have confidence in Him and dependable think you are in His grasp … what can turn out badly ??
This is Samarpan.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA TODAY 