is surrender.

The evening programs have been well attended by both devotees and outsiders. Tonight Prabhupada again spoke on Bhagavad-gita 9.3, stressing the importance of faith in Krishna's words and the necessity of ending the process of transmigration of the soul. He told us that by properly understanding who Krishna is we can attain our original spiritual body and end the cycle of repeated birth and death. Transmigration means that in every life we get many different fathers and mothers in different species. It is only now, in the human life, that we have the opportunity for proper guidance from guru and Krishna. Therefore, he advised us to take advantage of the Krishna consciousness movement to make our lives perfect. The audience was attentive and asked pertinent questions. Someone inquired how to surrender to Krishna, and Prabhupada quoted a song by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura describing how everything in his possession?his house, wife, children?was meant for the service of Krishna without any reservation. "That," Prabhupada said, "is surrender." An Indian man wanted to know if surrender is made by one's own effort, or does it just happen? Prabhupada told him that we are already surrendered, it is just a question of who we are surrendered to. A citizen is either surrendered to the government or to the police. He can either live according to the law or live in jail. Similarly, we can choose either Krishna or His maya, but our position is to be always surrendered.