RĀYA RĀMĀNANDA SAṂVĀDA · 06
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Śaraṇāgati is a doorway you walk through
sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja"Abandon all dharmas, surrender to Me alone" (BG 18.66 / CC Madhya 8.63)
Śaraṇāgati is a doorway you walk through
sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
"Abandon all dharmas, surrender to Me alone" (BG 18.66 / CC Madhya 8.63)
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"Just because a person leaves the dharma, they give up dharma, that does not mean that they have entered into pure bhakti. Śaraṇāgati is the doorway to pure bhakti. … When Mahāprabhu heard this, he said: this is also external."
It seems there is nowhere higher: Rāmānanda quotes the Gītā's most intimate call — "sarva-dharmān parityajya," give up everything and surrender to Me. And again — "eho bāhya." Not because surrender is small, but because merely parting with dharma is not yet the goal, only the threshold. Śaraṇāgati is the doorway into pure bhakti: one passes through it inward, one does not stop at it. Renunciation is only the entrance; beyond it the path itself begins. Mahāprabhu will not let us linger even at the doorway of surrender.
Surrender is a door. Don't stand in the frame — step through.
Source: Rāya Rāmānanda Saṃvāda · part 2
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