Krishna’s Flute

Every day Krishna would go in the garden and say to all the plants, “I love you.” The plants were very happy and responded saying, “Krishna, we love You too.”

One day Krishna rushed quickly into the garden very alarmed. He went to the bamboo plant and the bamboo plant asked, “Krishna, what´s wrong?” Krishna said, “I have something to ask you, but it is very difficult.” The bamboo said, “Please tell me. If I can, I will give it to You.” So Krishna said, “I need your life. I need to cut you.” The bamboo thought for a while and then said, “Don’t You have any other choice? Don’t You have any other way?” Krishna said, “No, no other way.” So it said “OK” and gave itself up.

Krishna cut the bamboo and made holes in it. Each time He carved the holes, the bamboo was crying in pain. Krishna made a beautiful flute out of it, and this flute was with Him all the time. Twenty-four hours a day it was with Krishna. Even the gopis [milk maidens] were jealous of the flute.

They said, “Look, Krishna is our Lord, yet we get to spend only some time with Him. He wakes up with you, He sleeps with you, all the time you are with Him.” The gopis asked the bamboo, “Tell us your secret. What secret do you have, that the Lord treasures you so much?” The bamboo said, “The secret is that I gave myself up, and He did what was right for me, and in the process I had to undergo a lot of pain.”

“The Lord does whatever He wants, whenever He wants, and however He wants with me. I have just become His instrument.”

This is complete surrender—where God can do whatever He wants with you, whenever He wants, and as He wants. Trust Him completely and have faith in Him, and always think that when you are in His hands nothing can go wrong.

This is samarpan or complete surrender.

Source: Radio Sai Team
(http://radiosai.org)