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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 1]
“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.” This same principle is described here ( sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ ). If by studying  Bhagavad-gītā  one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sinful reactions. It is also significant that Śukadeva Gosvāmī, having several times repeated the words  vāsudeva-parāyaṇa  and  nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇa , finally says  kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ . Thus he indicates that Kṛṣṇa is the origin of both Nārāyaṇa and Vāsudeva. Even though Nārāyaṇa and Vāsudeva are not different from Kṛṣṇa, simply by surrendering to Kṛṣṇa one fully surrenders to all His expansions, such as Nārāyaṇa, Vāsudeva and Govinda. As Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (7.7),  mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat : “There is no truth superior to Me.” There are many names and forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but Kṛṣṇa is the supreme form ( kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam ). Therefore Kṛṣṇa recommends to neophyte devotees that one should surrender unto Him only ( mām ekam ). Because neophyte devotees cannot understand what the forms of Nārāyaṇa, Vāsudeva and Govinda are, Kṛṣṇa directly says,  mām ekam . Herein, this is also supported by the word  kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ . Nārāyaṇa does not speak personally, but Kṛṣṇa or Vāsudeva does, as in  Bhagavad-gītā  for example. Therefore, to follow the direction of  Bhagavad-gītā  means to surrender unto Kṛṣṇa, and to surrender in this way is the highest perfection of  bhakti-yoga .
Parīkṣit Mahārāja had inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī how one can be saved from falling into the various conditions of hellish life. In this verse Śukadeva Gosvāmī answers that a soul who has surrendered to Kṛṣṇa certainly cannot go to  naraka , hellish existence. To say nothing of going there, even in his dreams he does not see Yamarāja or his order carriers, who are able to take one there. In other words, if one wants to save himself from falling into  naraka , hellish life, he should fully surrender to Kṛṣṇa. The word  sakṛt  is significant because it indicates that if one sincerely surrenders to Kṛṣṇa once, he is saved even if by chance he falls down by committing sinful activities. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.30):
api cet sudurācāro
bhajate mām ananya-bhāk