When there is unconditional surrender…

This came to me after painting my latest painting (below) while contemplating the meaning of surrender, and I thought it was quite befitting…. It is from the Bhagavad Gita my favorite text of all times…

Those who say, “I have understood the reality of Parabhairava,” they have not understood. Those who say, “I have not understood the reality of Parabhairava,” they have actually understood.

For instance if you just plunge, jump in water, and take hold of those bushes on the shore, and those bushes also are uprooted and you fall down. There is no way out. When you have lost all confidence then you are . . . some, another incarnation comes and takes you up. That is shaktipata [grace], when you have lost all the hope.

Drupati when she was, she was disrobed, she was calling Lord Krishna, “come and help me”. But at the same time she was holding this Sari with her mouth. But he didn’t come. He said no, she has got faith that I will hide myself. Then when she lost all courage, she left it, she left it open, and then Lord Krishna appeared and gave tremendous amount of dhotis and she would never be undressed. And it was a miracle. There, that was the real time of shaktipata [grace].

Question: So there must be unconditional surrender.

Unconditional surrender, bas! When there is unconditional surrender, bas! You are one with Lord. There is not this much difference between you and Parabhairava. Parabhairava is you and you are Parabhairava. Or, in brief words, there is only one Parabhairava.

~Swami Lakshmanjoo, (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 30, commenting on a sloka of the Kena Upanishad 2.3b)