384 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 22

vice; varjanam—complete rejection; raksisyati—He will protect; iti—thus;
visvasah —strong conviction; goptrtve—in being the guardian, like the father or
husband, master or maintainer; varanam—acceptance; tathd—as well as; atma-
niksepa—full self-surrender; karpanye—humility; sat-vidha—sixfold; Sarana-
agatih—process of surrender.

TRANSLATION

‘The six divisions of surrender are the acceptance of those things favor-
able to devotional service, the rejection of unfavorable things, the conviction
that Krsna will give protection, the acceptance of the Lord as one’s guardian
or master, full self-surrender and humility.

PURPORT

One who is fully surrendered is qualified with the six following characteristics.
(1) The devotee has to accept everything that is favorable for the rendering of
transcendental loving service to the Lord. (2) He must reject everything unfavora-
ble to the Lord’s service. This is also called renunciation. (3) A devotee must be
firmly convinced that Krsna will give him protection. No one else can actually give
one protection, and being firmly convinced of this is called faith. This kind of faith
is different from the faith of an impersonalist who wants to merge into the Brah-
man effulgence in order to benefit by cessation of repeated birth and death. A
devotee wants to remain always in the Lord’s service. In this way, Krsna is merciful
to His devotee and gives him all protection from the dangers found on the path of
devotional service. (4) The devotee should accept Krsna as his supreme main-
tainer and master. He should not think that he is being protected by a demigod.
He should depend only on Krsna, considering Him the only protector. The devo-
tee must be firmly convinced that within the three worlds he has no protector or
maintainer other than Krsna. (5) Self-surrender means remembering that one's ac-
tivities and desires are not independent. The devotee is completely dependent on
Krsna, and he acts and thinks as Krsna desires. (6) The devotee is meek and
humble. As stated in Bhagavad-gita:

sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto
mattah smrtir jidnam apohanam ca

vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham

“lam seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge
and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am | to be known; indeed | am the compiler of
Vedanta, and | am the knower of the Vedas.” (Bg. 15.15)
