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anukulyasya sankalpah
pratikulyasya varjanam
raksisyatiti visvaso
goptrtve varanam tatha
atma-niksepa-karpanye
sad-vidha saranagatih
SYNONYMS
anukulyasya—of anything that assists devotional service to the Lord; sankalpah—acceptance; pratikulyasya—of anything that hinders devotional service; varjanam—complete rejection; raksisyati—He will protect; iti—thus; visvasah—strong conviction; goptrtve—in being the guardian, like the father or husband, master or maintainer; varanam—acceptance; tatha—as well as; atma-niksepa—full self-surrender; karpanye—humility; sat-vidha—sixfold; sarana-agatih—process of surrender " ’The six divisions of surrender are the acceptance of those things favorable to devotional service, the rejection of unfavorable things, the conviction that Krsna will give protection, the acceptance of the Lord as one’s guardian or master, full self-surrender and humility.
PURPORT
One who is fully surrendered is qualified with the six following characteristics (1) The devotee has to accept everything that is favorable for the rendering of transcendental loving service to the Lord (2) He must reject everything unfavorable to the Lord’s service.
This is also called renunciation (3) A devotee must be firmly convinced that Krsna will give him protection.
No one else can actually give one protection, and being firmly convinced of this is called faith.
This kind of faith is different from the faith of an impersonalist who wants to merge into the Brahman effulgence in order to benefit by cessation of repeated birth and death.
A devotee wants to remain always in the Lord’s service.
In this way, Krsna is merciful to His devotee and gives him all protection from the dangers found on the path of devotional service (4) The devotee should accept Krsna as his supreme maintainer and master.
He should not think that he is being protected by a demigod.
He should depend only on Krsna, considering Him the only protector.
The devotee must be firmly convinced that within the three worlds he has no protector or maintainer other than Krsna (5) Self-surrender means remembering that one’s activities and desires are not independent.
The devotee is completely dependent on Krsna, and he acts and thinks as Krsna desires (6) The devotee is meek and humble.
As stated in Bhagavad-gita:
sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto
mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca
vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham “I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.
By all the Vedas am I to be known; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.” (Bg.15.15) Situated in everyone’s heart, Krsna deals differently according to the living entity’s position.
The living entity’s position is to be under the protection of the illusory energy or under Krsna’s personal protection.
When a living entity is fully surrendered, he is under the direct protection of Krsna, and Krsna gives him all intelligence by which he can advance in spiritual realization.
The nondevotee, however, being under the protection of the illusory energy, increasingly forgets his relationship with Krsna.
Sometimes it is asked how Krsna causes one to forget.
Krsna causes His devotee to forget material activities, and through the agency of maya, Krsna causes the nondevotee to forget his devotional service to the Lord.
This is called apohana.