32 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 (sakrn manah krsna-padaravindayoh). If by studying
Bhagavad-gita one decides to surrender to Krsna, he is immediately
freed from all sinful reactions. It is also significant that Sukadeva
Gosvami, having several times repeated the words va@sudeva-pardyana
and ndrayana-parayana, finally says krsna-padaravindayoh. Thus he
indicates that Krsna is the origin of both Narayana and Vasudeva. Even
though Narayana and Vasudeva are not different from Krsna, simply by
surrendering to Krsna one fully surrenders to all His expansions, such as
Narayana, Vasudeva and Govinda. As Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita
(7.7), mattah parataram nanyat: “There is no truth superior to Me.”
There are many names and forms of the Supreme Personality of God-
head, but Krsna is the supreme form (krsnas tu bhagavdn svayam).
Therefore Krsna recommends to neophyte devotees that one should sur-
render unto Him only (mam ekam). Because neophyte devotees cannot
understand what the forms of Narayana, Vasudeva and Govinda are,
Krsna directly says, mam ekam. Herein, this is also supported by the
word krsna-padaravindayoh. Narayana does not speak personally, but
Krsna or Vasudeva does, as in Bhagavad-gitd for example. Therefore, to
follow the direction of Bhagavad-gita means to surrender unto Krsna,
and to surrender in this way is the highest perfection of bhakti-yoga.
Pariksit Maharaja had inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami how one can
be saved from falling into the various conditions of hellish life. In this
verse Sukadeva Gosvami answers that a soul who has surrendered to
Krsna certainly cannot go to naraka, hellish existence. To say nothing of
going there, even in his dreams he does not see Yamaraja 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 sur-
render to Krsna. The word sakrt is significant because it indicates that if
one sincerely surrenders to Krsna once, he is saved even if by chance he
falls down by committing sinful activities. Therefore Krsna says in

Bhagavad-gita (9.30):

api cet sudurdcaro
bhajate mam ananya-bhak
