So here Krsna Caitanya, Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is giving mukti immediately. People are undergoing severe austerities, penances, but if you simply understand your position, what you are, that is mukti. So here Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is giving the intelligence immediately to Sanatana Gosvami that jivera svarupa haya krsnera nitya dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108]. Simply you have to accept, and surrender to Krsna. Krsna also says the same thing, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66], the same thing. Nitya dasa. Unless you accept yourself as servant of Krsna, how you can agree that "Yes, I surrender to You"? Surrender is made to somebody who is superior, not to the equal person. So Krsna demanding that sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66], that means that we are servant. Otherwise how Krsna can order that? So Caitanya Mahaprabhu is giving mukti immediately teaching the same thing -- jivera svarupa haya krsnera nitya dasa. And Krsna also says that this understanding, that "I am servant of Krsna," is realized after many, many births.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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