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Prabhupada, Ahmedabad, December 10, 1972: […] This devotional service means to accept favorable and reject unfavorable. This is called saranagati. Surrender means to accept favorable things, how I can make progress towards Krishna, and pratikulya, pratikula means rejecting unfavorable things which are not very congenial for my progress to Krishna consciousness. Raksayisyaty iti visvasa-palanam. And to have firm faith that “Krishna will give me protection. Krishna will give me protection.” Krishna says,
sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah [Bg. 18.66]
So to have firm faith in the statement of Krishna. Krishna says, “I’ll give you protection from the resultant action of all sinful activities.” We must know that anyone who are, anyone who is in this material world—more or less sinful. Without being sinful, nobody exists in this material world.
Just like yesterday we visited the Sabarmati jail.
So all the prisoners who are there, it is to be understood they are all sinful, or criminals. Otherwise, how they are put into the jail. So this material world is jail. You cannot have freedom here. It is not possible. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg. 7.14] And the superintendent of jail is Durga-devi. You have seen the many, there are many worshiper of goddess Durga. She is the superintendent of this jail. Durga. Durga means fort.
So this material world is just like a fort, and the predominating deity is the Durga-devi. Therefore she is equipped with so many weapons, ten kinds of weapons on ten hands. That means there are ten directions. The four corners, east, west, south, north, and the four corners, up and down.
These are the ten directions. So you cannot escape. Just like from the jail you cannot escape, there is very strong guard, similarly, we are all put into this fort, durga, material universe. So… And the deity, predominating deity, is Durga-devi.
There are some people, they think, “By satisfying Durga, we shall be happy.” That is also mentioned in the sastras, but that happiness is only within this material world. Dhanam dehi rupam dehi rupavati-bharyam dehi yaso dehi, dehi, dehi. After worshipping goddess Durga, we ask all these benedictions: “Give me money, give me beautiful wife, give me reputation, give me strength, give me victory.” Durga-devi gives you. But that is not actual happiness.
Therefore Krishna says that abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino ’rjuna [Bg. 8.16]. “My dear Arjuna, even if you are promoted to the highest planetary system Brahmaloka, that is not happiness.”
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