A creeper clings to the tree, a cloud hangs on to the sky, a baby sleeps in the lap of its mother the sweetness of these scenes is heightened by the fact that the creeper. the cloud and the baby have surrendered in all purity to the soutces oftheir seppor. But, when we pray to God to grant a wish or look after us, we almost, always do it halfcheartedly, Our surrender, if at all, is partial and questionable, We do not believe that God is really omnipotent, omnipresent and ‘omniscient, although we may say il often. Therefore, we are not at peace, despite praying. Our surrender should be like that of Vibhisina's, Swami Tejomayanandaji, in this book, explicily and lucidly defizes surrender, the seed to surrender and the factors that lead to true and unconditional surrender oe ini Cae $0031SaRANReaTt 1 SARANAGATI (Surrender) Who is Sri Rama? i jite daSarathatmaje stksid ramayanitmana. “The Supreme Truth revealed in the Vedas incarnated as Sti Rama, the son of King Dasaratha, and the Veda-s then manifested as the Ramayana to reveal the glory of Sri Rama. Valmiki Rsi wrote the first Ramayana. I is said that he himself was rebom as Gosvami Tulsidasji. Gosvimi jt i Ramayana in which he saftaer ates gram firemen areraree - eeu 1) fo dnanda sindhu sukha sisi. sikara tem traildka supa $0 sukha dhdma rama ase ndma akhila loka diyaka bisrama. (Balakanda - 197) Sci Rama is the ocean of bliss. Even a drop of this infinite bliss is enough to make all the beings of the past,