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On the Way to Krṣṇa
Krṣṇa we come immediately under His protection and are relieved of all miseries. This is validated by all scriptures. At the end of  Bhagavad-gītā , Śrī Krṣṇa says:
sarva-dharmān parityajya 
  mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja 
  ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo 
  mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.” (Bg. 18.66)
When we throw ourselves at the feet of God, we come under His protection, and from that time on there is no fear for us. When children are under the protection of their parents, they are fearless because they know that their parents will not let them be harmed.  Mām eva ye prapadyante : Krṣṇa promises that those who surrender to Him have no cause for fear.
If surrender unto Krṣṇa is such an easy thing, then why don't people do it? Instead there are many who are challenging the very existence of God, claiming that nature and science are everything and that God is nothing. So-called advancement of civilization in knowledge means that the populace is becoming more mad. Instead of being cured, the disease is being increased. People don't care for God, but they care for nature, and it is nature's business to give kicks in the form of the threefold miseries. She is always administering these kicks twenty-four hours a day. However, we have become so accustomed to being kicked that we think it is