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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Yes. If you fully surrender, māyā will not touch you.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsan -- August 10, 1976, Tehran|Evening Darsan -- August 10, 1976, Tehran]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mr. Sharma: When one person surrenders to God, to Lord Kṛṣṇa, so does māyā automatically vāṇīsh?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa says...</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: If I say, I pray to God, "O Lord Kṛṣṇa, I surrender unto You." So is..., māyā will not touch me? I will not be affected by this material infection?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. If you fully surrender, māyā will not touch you.</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: How one surrenders? What is meaning of surrender?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Surrender as He says, sarva-dharmān... You have nothing to do. You have simply to do what Kṛṣṇa says. That is surrender. You cannot reserve anything, that "I do it something for me and something for Kṛṣṇa." That is not surrender. You have nothing to do except what Kṛṣṇa says. That is surrender.</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: If that is surrender, means I now surrender.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Otherwise, it's not surrender.</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: Only saying is not surrender?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You have to act, become active.</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: So one who has surrendered, what is his thinking and acting, how he lives in the world?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's active only on Kṛṣṇa's business. That's all. He has no other business.</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: So he does no other work. He does only what Kṛṣṇa has said.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: Preaching and this and that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, just like we are doing. Kṛṣṇa said, "Surrender unto Me." And what we are preaching? We are preaching, "Sir, you surrender to Kṛṣṇa." So what is the difficulty? Is there any difficulty? Kṛṣṇa said "Surrender unto Me." And if I go to you "Mr. Sharma, you surrender to Kṛṣṇa." So what is my difficulty?</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: Suppose I want to surrender to God, to Kṛṣṇa. How I will do it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, first of all my position, because I am working on behalf of Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa says, "You surrender unto Me." So if I say that "Sir, you surrender to Kṛṣṇa," so where is my difficulty?</p>
<p>Mr. Sharma: You see, yes, I say I surrender to Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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