Panca Dravida: Prabhupāda, why is it
Prabhupāda: He’s more sinful. Yeṣām anta–gataṁ pāpam
Prabhupāda: Yes
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Gurukṛpā: That surrender has to be with perfect knowledge, or else itwon’t be strong enough.
Prabhupāda: If he surrenders, the knowledge will be there. That knowledge…. It is very psychological. If you surrender…. If I surrender to you, I must have some conception that you are very big. That much conception will help you, not more than this. Simply accept that Kṛṣṇa isthe Supreme. Kṛṣṇa bhakti kaile sa
Gurukṛpā: No, it’s the easiest thing.
Prabhupāda: Kavirāja Gosvāmī has explained very nicely. This isviśvāsa. Śraddhā śabde viśvāsa sudṛḍha
Acyutānanda: If you have firm faith in Kṛṣṇa and surrender unto Him, then all other activities and responsibilities are fulfilled by serving Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: That’s it.
Prabhupāda: Tuwā o pada baraṇe(?) This is required.
Acyutānanda: Serving the root.
Prabhupāda: “My only responsibility is to surrender to Kṛṣṇa”—then this very conception will save you.
Rāmeśvara: I spoke with one man who argued that “Kṛṣṇa is very cruel because He knows everything past, present and future, so He knew that we would all fall down from the spiritual sky, but still, He gave us the independence to fall down.”
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Rāmeśvara: “Even though He knew we would fall, because He knows everything…”
Acyutānanda: That’s a common question.
Prabhupāda: That is another foolish question. Unless you have got independence, what is your life? Then you are dead stone. You want to become a dead stone? That is not Kṛṣṇa’s concern. Kṛṣṇa does not give such perfection, that you become a dead stone.
Acyutānanda: “The thing is that because Kṛṣṇa knows the future, past, present, and future, so He knew that we would fall down, so why didn’t He help me?”
Prabhupāda: No, no, future means, just like…. This is the law of nature, that if you steal, you’ll be punished. So if I say, “Oh, you are stealing; you’ll be punished,” this is future. Suppose this is the month of March, and if I say, “In the month of July there will be rain.” So I know; you know; everyone knows. This is not a future telling. The natural sequenceis everyone knows it.
Madhudviṣa: But does that means that Kṛṣṇa doesn’t know something?
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa…. If everyone knows, why Kṛṣṇa does not know? “He knows everything” means this common sense everyone knows.
Madhudviṣa: Does He know what you will choose?
Prabhupāda: Eh? Just try to understand. Future means like this: nature’s law; and it will happen. After summer there will be rainy season;it will happen, and they will call, I am foretelling future. It is not future;it is natural sequence, automatically happened.
Satsvarūpa: But that’s predictable. If I have my own free will, what I’m going to do, you don’t know.
Prabhupāda: No, no, if you are in knowledge, you can predict. But if you are fool, you cannot say. If I see that in July there will be rain, and if you are a fool, you’ll protest. That is your foolishness. It is natural sequence, one after another.
Madhudviṣa: When is the natural sequence…?
Prabhupāda: Natural sequence…. Just like you are infected, some contaminous disease. You’ll suffer. There is a story that one fool was sitting on a branch of a tree and he was cutting off. And somebody said, “You’ll fall down.” “Ha, fall down.” But when he fell down he said, “Oh, you are a great astrologer.” So who goes to the astrologer? Only fools and rascal. No sane man goes. They know that what is…. Yad bhavyantam tad
Gurukṛpā: I can prepare myself to make change.
Prabhupāda: Yes. My only business is to serve Kṛṣṇa. I don’t mind what will happen next.
Note- This is surrender-that, in the course of serving Krsna, I dont care what happens next. Why? Because I know Krsna, God, will protect me.