Surrender To The Divine

There is a beautiful story about the flute of Krishna.

We all know Krishna always holds a flute in his hand, there
is a great story behind it ...

Everyday Krishna would go in the garden and say to all the
plants, “I love you”.

The plants were very happy and responded saying “Krishna,
we love You too”.

One day Krishna rushed quickly into the garden very
alarmed.

He went to the bamboo plant and the bamboo plant asked,
“Krishna, what´s wrong?”

Krishna said “I have something to ask you, but it is very
difficult”.

The bamboo said “Tell me: if I can, I will give it to you”.

So Krishna said “I need your life. I need to cut you”.

The bamboo thought for a while and then said “You don´t
have any other choice. You don’t have any other way ?”

Krishna said, “No, no other way”.

And it said “OK” and gave himself up.

So Krishna cut the bamboo n made holes in it, and each
time, he carved the holes, the bamboo was crying in pain ...

Krishna made a beautiful flute out of it n this flute was with
him all the time.

24 hours a day, it was with Krishna. Even the Gopis were
jealous of the flute.

They said, “Look, Krishna is our Lord, but yet we get to
spend only some time with him.

He wakes up with you, He sleeps with you, all the time you
are with him”.

Gopis asked the bamboo, “Tell us your secret. What secret
do you have, that the Lord treasures you so much ?”

And the bamboo said “The secret is that, i gave myself up,
and he did whatever was right for me, in the process i had
to undergo a lot of pain.

And the Lord does whatever he wants with me, whenever he
wants with me and however he wants with me. I have just
become His instrument”.

So this is complete surrender: where God can do whatever
He wants with you, whenever He wants, as He wants.

Trust Him completely and have faith in Him and always
think you are in His hands ... what can go wrong ??

This is Samarpan or Surrender.

18 Lessons we can Learn from the Bhagawad Geeta:

Chapter 1 : Wrong thinking is the only problem in life

Chapter 2 : Right knowledge is the ultimate solution to all our problems

Chapter 3 : Selflessness is the only way to progress and prosperity

Chapter 4 : Every act can be an act of prayer

Chapter 5 : Renounce the ego of individuality and Rejoice in the Bliss of Infinity

Chapter 6 : Connect to the Higher Daily

Chapter 7 : Live what you learn

Chapter 8 : Never give up on yourself

Chapter 9 : Value your blessings

Chapter 10 : See divinity all around

Chapter 11 : Have enough surrender to see the Truth as it is

Chapter 12 : Absorb your mind in the Higher

Chapter 13 : Detach and Attach

Chapter 14 : Live a lifestyle that matches your vision

Chapter 15 : Give priority to Divinity

Chapter 16 : Being good is a reward in itself

Chapter 17 : Choosing the right over the pleasant is a sign of power

Chapter 18 : Let Go, Let God

Light the lamp inside you and find your lost treasure.

One night Adi Sankaracharya, a noblest soul, was desperately searching for something on the street outside his small hut. When His pupil, returned back from work, he saw this and curiously asked, “Aacharya, what are you looking for, here on the street, at this hour?”

Sankaracharya  replied, “I lost my needle.”

Pupil joined him in the search, but after searching for a while, he asked, “Can you try and recollect where you might have dropped it?”

Sankaracharya  said, “Of course, I remember. I dropped it near the bed, in our hut.”

Pupil surprised  and astonished , “Aacharya, You lost it inside the house, then why are we looking for it outside?”

Sankaracharya  innocently replied, “There was no oil left in our lamp. It was pitch dark inside the house to search for it. Hence I thought of searching for it outside, since there was enough streetlight here.”

While holding his laugh, pupil said, “ If you lost your needle inside the house, how could you even expect to find it outside?”

Sankaracharya  simply smiled back at pupil and Pupil got the beautiful moral behind his silly act. 

We are all seeking outside, what we have lost inside us. Why, just because it is pitch dark inside? Silly, aren’t we? 

Light the lamp inside you. 

Find your lost treasure.