52 On the Way to Krsna

But those who have surrendered to Me can easily
cross beyond it.” (Bg. 7.14)

No one can get rid of the entanglement of the
three qualities of material nature by mental specula-
tion. The three gunas are very strong and hard to
overcome. Can’t we feel how we are in the grip of
material nature? The word guna (mode) also means
rope. When someone is bound by three strong ropes,
he is certainly very tightly secured. Our hands and
legs are all bound by the strong ropes of goodness,
passion and ignorance. Are we therefore to abandon
hope? No, for here Sri Krsna promises that whoever
surrenders unto Him is at once free. When one be-
comes Krsna conscious—whether in this way or that
way—he becomes free.

We are all related to Krsna, for we are all His sons.
A son may have a disagreement with his father, but it
is not possible for him to break that relation. In the
course of his life he will be asked who he is, and he
will have to reply, “I am the son of so and so.” That
relation cannot be broken. We are all sons of God,
and that relationship with Him is eternal, but we
have simply forgotten. Krsna is all-powerful, all-
famous, all-wealthy, all-beautiful, all-knowledgeable,
and He is full of renunciation as well. Although we
are friends of such a great personality, we have for-
gotten it. If a rich man’s son forgets his father, leaves
home and becomes mad, he may lie on the street to
go to sleep, or he may beg money for food, but all
of this is due to his forgetfulness. If someone, how-
ever, gives him information that he is simply
suffering because he has left his father’s home and
