Category:God and His Surrendered Souls
Theme Analysis
The relationship between God and His surrendered souls is one of intense intimacy and mutual exchange. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that when a devotee fully surrenders, the Supreme Personality of Godhead takes personal charge of their life. This "taking charge" means the Lord provides specific protection in all circumstances, relieves the devotee of sinful reactions (karma), and dictates instructions from within as the caitya-guru. A surrendered soul is characterized by a lack of anxiety regarding personal maintenance and an absence of desire for material opulence. Uniquely, the Lord is revealed only to such surrendered souls; mental speculation and hard labor cannot access Him. Even when the Lord sends distress, the surrendered soul understands it as a purification process to stop the cycle of birth and death.
- The Lord's Vow: God specifically protects the surrendered soul and takes charge of their destiny.
- Freedom from Anxiety: A surrendered soul does not worry about maintenance, knowing the Almighty is their protector.
- Access to Knowledge: The Absolute Truth is known only through surrender, not by intellectual jugglery.
- Internal Guidance: The Lord acts as the spiritual master within to guide the surrendered devotee.
- Purification: Sometimes the Lord offers a "little distress" to purify the devotee for final liberation.
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Pages in category "God and His Surrendered Souls"
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- A devotee is always protected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By His inspiration only, the sages came to encourage Dhruva Maharaja and assure him that there was no danger because he was a soul fully surrendered to the Supreme Lord
- A surrendered soul who fully depends upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not want material opulence for sense gratification
- Anyone who is a surrendered soul unto the Supreme is righteous, and he is specifically protected by the Lord in all circumstances
- Are the caves of the mountains now closed, or, above all, does the Almighty Lord not protect the fully surrendered souls? Why then do the learned sages go to flatter those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth
- As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (18.66), the Lord at once takes charge of such a surrendered soul and frees him from all the reactions to his sinful acts
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- Both becoming the most powerful man in the material world and desiring to become one with the Lord are different illusory snares. And because the pure devotees of the Lord are surrendered souls, they are above the illusory snares of maya
- By studying Bhagavad-gita, one can become a completely surrendered soul to the Supreme Lord and engage himself in pure devotional service. BG 1972 purports
- By such surrender, an impersonalist can be elevated to the Vaikuntha-loka (spiritual planet) where, as a surrendered soul, he attains bodily features like the Lord
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- He (Hamsavatara) also explained unto you (Narada), lucidly, the full science of devotional service, which is especially understandable by persons who are souls surrendered unto Lord Vasudeva, the Personality of Godhead
- He (the Lord) is always prepared to give shelter to the surrendered soul, and anyone so fortunate as to look upon Him feels all satisfaction. The Lord is always worthy to be the master of the surrendered soul, for He is the ocean of mercy
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- In other words, one should not bother about his personal or family maintenance or sustenance. If one is actually surrendered in body and soul, he should always remember that his only concern is to be engaged in the service of the Lord
- In the Upanisads it is clearly said that the SPG can never be known simply by working very hard and taxing the good brain, nor can He be known simply by mental speculation and jugglery of words. The Lord is knowable only by one who is a surrendered soul
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- O supreme protector, O grandfather, O supreme pure, O Lord! We are all surrendered souls at Your lotus feet. Indeed, our minds are bound to Your lotus feet in meditation by chains of love. Now please manifest Your incarnation
- One should not take any responsibility on his own but should be a soul surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who will then give him dictation as the caittya-guru, or the spiritual master within
- One who is a completely surrendered soul, always seeking protection from the Lord in the discharge of his entrusted duties, has no fear of falling into material contamination
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- The liberated souls, who exist in far greater numerical strength than those souls in the material world, can factually experience the potency of the above-mentioned sandhini, samvit and hladini energies of the Lord
- The Lord is everyone's friend, but He is especially friendly to the surrendered soul
- The Lord takes charge of fully surrendered souls; thus all problems are solved simply by surrendering oneself unto the Lord and acting in terms of His directions
- To save a surrendered soul from repeated birth and death, the Lord purifies him of contamination by offering him a little distress. This cannot be understood by a nondevotee, but a devotee can see this because he is vipascit, or learned