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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
when the ‘self’ is totally surrendered there is nothing like a ‘self’ at all, ‘self’ does not exist. When faith develops into a ‘Mahaviswasa’ it becomes self surrender (Sarana). To say that I am ‘Sarana’ in the beginning is not correct. However, remember Gayopakyanam. The man runs to Arjuna and say ‘save me’, nobody else can save me. That is physical one. Then Vibheeshan comes to lord Rama, that is also surrender. Nobody questions all these things, but at what levels? That is the level of beginner. That level which you and I have already crossed only not with their confidence. Nor our existence problem was all that worse as theirs was. Gaya was absolutely facing death, he has to run for his life. I don’t think any of us are running for our life. So his stage of surrender was dependent upon the ‘Kripanatva’. The helplessness. The helplessness was such that he has to ask for help. There is another type of ‘Kripanatva’ which “Arjuna had, as we see in the ‘Bhagavadgita’. That is the ‘Dharma’ problem. Not exactly a ‘Dharma’ problem, he was a warrior, he was capable of killing so many people there was no difficulty for him to kill so many people before him. ‘Himsa’ was not his problem. His problem was how to kill his own men. So the ‘Bhagavadgita’ does not deal with ‘Ahimsa’. It tells you 244