| "If you go to a friend in a difficult position and you surrender to your friend, 'My dear friend, you are so great, so powerful, so influential. I am in this great danger. So I surrender unto you. You please give me protection...' So you can do that to Kṛṣṇa. Here in the material world, if you surrender to a person, however very big he may be, he may refuse. He may say, 'Well, I am unable to give you protection'.That is the natural reply. If you are in danger and if you go even to your intimate friend, 'Please give me protection', he will hesitate, because his power is very limited. He'll first of all think that 'If I give protection to this person, whether my interest will not be jeopardized'? He'll think like that, because his potency is limited. But Kṛṣṇa is so nice that He's so powerful, He's so opulent... He declares in the Bhagavad-gītā, everyone, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66): 'You leave aside everything. You simply surrender unto Me'."
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