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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 6]
all others, even the greatest of all living beings, namely, Brahmājī, admits that the best thing for us is to surrender unto Him. Therefore only those persons with a very poor fund of knowledge claim that they themselves are lords of all that they survey. And what can they survey? They cannot survey even the length and breadth of a small sky in one small universe. The so-called material scientist says that he would need to live forty thousand years to reach the highest planet of the universe, being carried by a sputnik. This is also utopian because no one can be expected to live forty thousand years. Besides, when the space pilot returns from his travel, none of his friends would be present to receive him back as the greatest astronaut, as has become fashionable for modern bewildered scientific men. One scientific man, who had no belief in God, was very much enthusiastic in making plans for his material existence and therefore opened a hospital to save the living. But after opening the hospital, he himself died within six months. So one should not spoil his human life, which is obtained after many, many changes of bodies in 8,400,000 species of life, simply for the concocted material happiness of life by increasing artificial needs in the name of advancement of economic development and scientific knowledge, but one should simply surrender unto the feet of the Lord to make a solution of all miseries of life. That is the instruction of Lord Kṛṣṇa directly in the  Bhagavad-gītā , and that is the instruction of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  by Brahmājī, the supreme father of all living beings.
Anyone denying this surrendering process as recommended both in the  Bhagavad-gītā  and in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and, for that matter, in all authorized scriptures, will be forced to surrender unto the laws of material nature. The living entity, by his constitutional position, is not independent. He must surrender, either unto the Lord or unto material nature. Material nature is also not independent of the Lord, since the Lord Himself has claimed material nature as  mama māyā , or “My energy” (Bg. 7.14), and as  me bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā , or “My separated energy in eight divisions.” (Bg. 7.4) Therefore material nature is also controlled by the Lord, as He has claimed in  Bhagavad-gītā: mayādhyakṣena prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram , “Under My direction only is material nature working, and thus are all things moving.” (Bg. 9.10) And the living entities, being superior energy to matter, have choice and discrimination either to surrender unto the Lord or to surrender unto material nature. By surrendering unto the Lord, one is happy and liberated, but by surrendering unto material nature the living entity suffers. So the end of all suffering means surrendering unto the Lord because the surrendering process itself is  bhavacchidam  or liberation from all material miseries,  svastyayanam  or perception of all happiness, and  sumaṅgalam  or the source of everything auspicious.