Ishvara Pranidhana

Surrender and life becomes easy

- Krupa Mehta

What does Ishvara Pranidhana mean? It means surrendering to the will of a higher reality or God. So easy to translate and so easy to understand but is this easy to follow? For some, it may be easy and for others, it may be difficult. Some may even ask, ‘why surrender?’

We usually tell children, “God is listening to you” or “God is watching you”, to scare them or to make them understand that whatever they do, they are under surveillance of someone all the time so that they don't do mischief. The same thing goes for adults; the reason is not to scare them but to give them strength — that if you are doing the right thing, taking the right path, God is always watching. Surrender all your hard work to him and sooner or later, you will get results.