Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 745

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Conclusion—The Perfection of Renunciation
Chapter 18: Verse- 66

sarva-dharmän parityajya mäm ekam saranam vraja
aham tväm sarva-päpebhyo moksayisyämi mä sucah[1]

TRANSLATION

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.


PURPORT

The Lord has described various kinds of knowledge and processes of religion—knowledge of the Supreme Brahman, knowledge of the Supersoul, knowledge of the different types of orders and statuses of social life, knowledge of the renounced order of life, knowledge of non attachment, sense and mind control, meditation, etc. He has described in so many ways different types of religion. Now, in summarizing Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that Arjuna should give up all the processes that have been explained to him; he should simply surrender to Krsna. That surrender will save him from all kinds of sinful reactions, for the Lord personally promises to protect him.

In the Seventh Chapter it was said that only one who has become free from all sinful reactions can take to the worship of Lord Krsna. Thus one may think that unless he is free from all sinful reactions he cannot take to the surrendering process. To such doubts it is here said that even if one is not free from all sinful reactions, simply by the process of surrendering to Krsna he is automatically freed. There is no need of strenuous effort to free oneself from sinful reactions. One should unhesitatingly accept krsna as the supreme savior of all living entities.


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References

  1. sarva-dharmän=all varieties of religion; parityajya=abandoning; mäm=unto Me; ekam=only; saranam=for surrender; vraja=go; aham=I; tväm=you; sarva=all; päpebhyah=from sinful reactions; moksayisyämi=will deliver;
    mä=do not; sucah=worry.

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