o4 On the Way to Krsna
Krsna we come immediately under His protection
and are relieved of all miseries. This is validated by
all scriptures. At the end of Bhagavad-gita, Sri Krsna
says: sarva-dharman parityajya

mam ekam Saranam vraja

aham tvam sarva-papebhyo

moksayisyami ma sucah
“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. Mam eva ye prapadyante: Krsna promises
that those who surrender to Him have no cause for
fear.

If surrender unto Krsna 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 civi-
lization 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
