Verse 18.62🔗

Kṛṣṇa switches gears and starts giving Arjuna the experience. He starts radiating eternal consciousness. He is putting Arjuna into that consciousness, into the experience of enlightenment. Just relax for a few minutes. Relax from all the thoughts and ideas going on in your head. There is every possibility that you can also glimpse what Arjuna received by His grace. We always miss due to our instinct to survive and possess. For a few minutes, relax from thoughts. You can pick them up later. There is no problem in that. Just for a few moments keep them away from your consciousness. Drop them from your inner space so that you may glimpse that consciousness.

There is a distinct possibility that you may experience what Arjuna experienced by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. tam eva śaranaṁ gaccha sarva-bhāvena bhārata I tat-prasādāt parāṁ śāntiṁ sthānaṁ prāpsyasi śāśvatam II 18.62 Throughout Bhagavad Gītā, Śrī Kṛṣṇa has been saying, surrender to Me. He has been saying ‘I’ and ‘Me’, meaning that He represents the Divine. Now, suddenly, He changes that and says surrender unto Him (tam) as a third person. For the first time He refers to the Divine in this way. This means that He has expanded beyond the body. He now speaks as Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the universal Kṛṣṇa. He speaks from the eternal consciousness. That is the reason He says surrender unto Him and not surrender unto Me.

Earlier He used the word ‘I’ or ‘Me’. This change means that He is in an expanded state to put Arjuna into the experience. In order to give a disciple the experience, the Master must be in the same Mokṣa Sannyāsa Yogaḥ Drop Everything And Surrender 1311 state, too. That is why Śrī Kṛṣṇa went into that expanded state. Before a pūjā, the priest chants the aṅganyāsa karanyāsa mantra— anguṣṭhābhyām daśadibhyāṁ—these mantras are chanted in order to expand and go beyond body consciousness. These purify the body and help us go beyond the body. Actually, purifying and going beyond are the same thing. So now Kṛṣṇa says ‘Surrender unto Him, tam eva śaranaṁ gaccha’ since He has expanded and He cannot use the word ‘Me’.

He says, ‘Bhārata, surrender unto Him utterly. By His grace you will attain eternal consciousness and supreme peace.’ He has expanded into that consciousness and is about to give energy darśan. He is ready to shower His energy on Arjuna. Surrender To Me, I Will Liberate You