Gita 18.62 – Let every mantra offer our heart’s surrender to Krishna

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thank you prasadat param shantim sthanam praptishish asvatam this is 18.62 Bhagavad Gita tam eva sharanam natcham surrender unto that supreme person that tam is a pronoun and the noun to which it refers has been mentioned in the previous verse 18.61 ishvara sarvabhutana hrideshe arjunatishthati brahmayan sarvabhutani yantrarurhanimayaya ishvara sarvabhutana the ishvara the lord of all living beings is the person to whom we should surrender, Krishna is referring to himself in the third person tam eva sharanam natcham surrender to that supreme person how? sarvabhavena bharata with your whole heart sarvabhavena actually often our surrender is half hearted we surrender half heartedly because we don’t trust Krishna so much but when we understand the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita when we understand the glory of Krishna when we understand the love of Krishna then naturally we feel inspired to surrender to him tat prasadat param shantim by his prasad what will we get? param shantim we will get the supreme peace and then sthanam prapsisi shashvatam sthanam prapsisi we will get the destination, the sthanam sthanam shashvatam so actually Arjuna asked the questions to Krishna on the battlefield so one of his concerns was for shanti and Krishna is telling Arjuna that you will get shanti not merely by avoiding the war because even if you can avoid the war and you can get some peace, this world will not allow you to stay at peace and sooner or later again disorder will come up so the way to peace is not by avoiding conflict but by transcending conflict by harmonizing with the supreme by the outer conflicts will go on but the inner conflict between us and the lord caused by our will, our desire to do something other than his will, that outer conflict is actually the cause of great misery that inner conflict is the cause of great misery, that is the cause of the restlessness which eventually manifests as the outer conflicts of various kinds so people who are internally disturbed do actions that are externally disturbing and when these externally disturbing actions become excessive then people in order to retaliate engage in conflicts of course this is a relatively simple outline of what is complex but the fundamentals are valid here inner conflict leads to outer conflict and Krishna is telling Arjuna over here end the inner conflict and then when there is inner harmony then there will be not just the volatile peace in this world which comes by a temporary ceasefire by a temporary cessation of hostilities, you will get the supreme peace, param shantin that can never be shaken no matter how severe be the hostilities in the outer world and then the hostilities were for a kingdom you will get the saanam prapsah no victory will in this world the outer conflict will give you lasting results lasting kingdom but the surrender to Krishna is such a victory that will give you lasting result so actually every time when we practice devotional service it’s a beautiful verse to meditate on when we are chanting, when we are studying when we are praying we can pray to our heart, we can invoke the mood of this verse in our heart as instruction for us O heart tame vasaranam gaccha now every mantra that you chant, every prayer that you make tame vasaranam gaccha surrender to that lord that sacred sounds of the mantras are means by which our heart can actually follow this instruction tame vasaranam gaccha so with every mantra that we recite with every mantra that we call out we are actually taking our heart towards Krishna and the more we let our heart move towards him the more we push our heart towards him, the more our heart learns to love to go closer to him the more we will relish the inner peace param shanti so often when we try to concentrate on Krishna the mind gets agitated but if we keep striving to concentrate on him then the agitation gets transcended for we get the connection that brings supreme satisfaction that brings even if we don’t realize the satisfaction to be supreme we at least sense it to be sublime sublime means special, enriching, supreme means the top most so we may not yet be convinced that the pleasure in devotion is supreme, it is far greater than the worldly pleasures that are available outside, but even if we realize that it is sublime and we can realize that if we surrender to Krishna if we try to absorb ourselves in remembering him, then then we will realize the sublimity of remembering him and that sublimity that understanding that oh, remembrance of Krishna gives us sublime satisfaction oh, why should I seek some gratification which brings such agitation with it there may be some gratification outside but along with that comes so much agitation the anxiety to attain it the anxiety to retain it and the anxiety that we will eventually lose it so let me just focus on Krishna and let me thereby relish the param shantem as we keep relishing this param shantem this sublime peace in the bible it is called the peace that passeth all understanding that actually a spiritualist may be in externally troublesome situations, but because the heart is steady in devotion to Krishna one experiences peace so from material logic the person observing can’t understand how can there be such peace in one but a serious devotee experiences the peace param shantem that comes by ending our inner conflict with Krishna by saying to Krishna as Arjuna did at the end of the Gita in 18.73 karishye vachanam tava I will do your will so when we pray to Krishna when we chant his holy names we are actually praying to Krishna, Krishna I want to do your will, I will do your will, please engage me in your service and Krishna sees our sincere effort to offer our heart with every mantra that we chant to surrender to his will then he will bless us even in this life with this param shantem thank you