Surrender to GOD

SYNOPSIS: GOD, as Almighty Father, standing behind a creature provides him with so much solace. By surrendering to GOD through devotion, one can obtain salvation. READ THE FULL ARTICLE BELOW -

Just imagine what will happen if Almighty GOD does not stand behind us. Who will undo our misfortune and help us in distress ? GOD alone can undo our misfortune and help us in distress. There is a lot of strength in this belief. Just imagine how big this strength is.

If GOD is not there, no one could undo our misfortune or help us in distress. If it were so, how difficult that situation would be. This situation is just like that when a patient discovers that he has a life-risking disease and there is no treatment possible for it. Firstly, it is a life-risking disease and secondly, no treatment is possible, how aggrieved the patient would become. Likewise, if Almighty GOD does not stand behind us, we will be aggrieved with our misfortune and distress.

It's so because only GOD gives us the strength to overcome our misfortune and distress. GOD gives us the strength to fight with it and He only gives us the opportunity to free ourselves from it.

We are burdened with the sins accumulated in many previous births. This is the reason for our misfortune and distress. If we come to know that due to these sins, we have to face the sufferings of hell and have to take rebirths in different bodies in this world and there is no escape from it, how aggrieved we will become. But when we know that GOD is there with the power to destroy our sins of many accumulated births, how relaxed we become.

Without GOD how aggrieved we were. With GOD how relaxed we became because the capability of GOD is immense. Only and only GOD has the capability to destroy our sins accumulated over many births.

We cannot accumulate that many sins in many accumulated births which GOD can destroy in a split second. Like a godown of cotton wool can be destroyed by a single spark of fire which will burn the cotton wool from one end to the other, likewise howsoever big the mountain of sins is, a single mercy of GOD can destroy it completely.

There is a provision to go to hell for the sins committed. There are different types of hell and different types of suffering in it. If GOD mercy was not available, there would be no escape from hell and sufferings therein. When we hear the description of hell in Shri Garudpuranji (a Holy Text) we are terrorized. If we were to really go and undergo the suffering of hell, how fearful the situation will be. But GOD is there to free us from the miseries of hell. When we realize this the fearful situation becomes fearless. Shri Yamdevji (the Lord of Hell) conveys to His messengers that whosoever is showered with the mercy of GOD, the suffering of hell is permanently nullified for him. Such creatures do not have to come to hell.

If the mercy of GOD was not forthcoming, we would be engaged in the cycle of birth and rebirths. Due to the bondage of deeds, we would have to take birth and rebirths. How grievous this situation would be. But GOD provides us the way to free ourselves from this cycle of birth and rebirths. Only GOD provides us with this option of salvation.

Only GOD removes our misfortune and distress. Only GOD makes our sins decay which was accumulated in many births. Only GOD frees us from the sufferings of hell and only He frees us from the cycle of birth and rebirths. Only GOD can do all this and what is the means for it, how will it happen ? Are there different means for it ? No, there is only one means and that is devotion.

Devotion is the only means which make GOD shower His mercy on us. It is devotion due to which GOD becomes impatient to uplift the devotee and provide him salvation.

Devotion removes our misfortune and distress. Devotion converts our misfortune to fortune. See the example of devotee Shri Prahladji and Holika. Holika got a boon that if she wears a Divine cloth and sits in the fire she will not burn. She sat on a fire bed wearing the Divine cloth and making Shri Prahladji sit on her lap and tightly holding him. She thought that she would be all right and Shi Prahladji would get burned. Due to the wish of GOD wind blew from all directions and the Divine cloth of Holika was blown off. Holika was burnt to death but without any covering and without any boon Shi Prahladji was saved. When his friends asked him how he escaped the heat of the fire, Shri Prahladji said that the fire gave him such coolness which he cannot describe. How coolness from fire is possible ? But it was the devotion that made this possible. For the welfare of His devotee, GOD made the fire cold.

Devotion decays our sins accumulated in many births by the mercy of GOD. Not just that, devotion stops us from committing new sins. The heart of a devotee will never indulge in sin. Devotion saves him from committing sins.

Devotion frees us from hell. How? Hell is made for punishment for sins committed but when devotion decays the sins, the devotee does not have to go to hell. Because when there are no sins left, why will he go to hell ?

Devotion frees us from the cycle of birth and rebirths. The cycle of taking birth and death, again and again, stops for a devotee.

Almighty GOD is standing behind us, there is so much strength in this belief. Due to devotion, Almighty GOD showers His mercy, there is so much strength behind this principle.

Therefore, with devotion, we must surrender to GOD without any delay. This is the only means to make human life successful.

English Translation vetted by Sheelnidhi Gupta