Benefits of Samarpana
The below-written content is from our Guru Sri Satyatma gurgalu’s discourse in kannada and I have translated in english for the benefit of non-kannadigas. Please pardon me if there are any mistakes in my translation.
To do punya (good deeds) it requires a lot of days and time. To get rid of punya one second is enough. To get Sampath (richness) we require a lot of years. We have to do a lot of hard work and make wealth. After making a lot of wealth if we keep the doors open while going to tour-” what will happen”? Someone will steal all the wealth which is accumulated for all these years. One second is enough to get rid of wealth. Similarly to get Punya we require a lot of effort, time and requires bhakti, devotion.
In the end, we have to think ” Naham Kartha Hari hi Kartha“.
“Everything is done by Sri Hari only and not by me”. This anusandana is very much important in all our sathkaryas [ Good deeds].
He is making us do all the kartha [work] and we are just a tool. With bhakti, we have to do this samarpana. To take our punyas, there are asuras, rakshasas who can take it. But still, humans do not have the capacity to take away punya. We can think we have done a lot of punya and enjoy it in the next birth or in heaven. Asuras have the capacity to steal our punya but we offer to sri krishna by saying “krishnarpanam” and you are the doer and not me with this humble thinking our punya is preserved.
If you keep money in the bank we think it’s safe and we can take it whenever we are in need. But, If you go to the same bank in the next janma (next birth) and ask for money. The watchman will beat you. In the “Narayana bank” our punya is safe. Just a prayer is enough. Just fold your hands and pray to HIM. Its pure secret. If we do prayers he takes care of us like a father who takes care of his son. He will protect you whenever necessary when there is a need he will give his protection.
If you are eating one handful of rice means the punya which is done and the prayers are the proof. This is proved in sashtra also. You need not ask each and everything to Srihari like I need to eat, sleep, breathe etc., for each second, we need punya and he is protecting us.
Here a good example of doing samarpana to Srihari. A child writes an exam to get success and needs to get promoted. Then he can go to the next class. The child writes the exam for nearly 3 hours with correct answers. After some time when the exam results come, the child did not get his results. His father complains to school authorities for not getting the result. They search his paper but his papers were not with them. The child says, ” I did not submit my paper to them. I am having it with me”. He did not get the result as he has not submitted the papers. Similarly, if we do pooja or prayers or any good deed we have to submit our karya – good deed to him. Then only we get punya. So it is very much mandatory to do samarpane to sri hari.
The video full link of the speech is given:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-xB0rsEq5Q&t=734s&fbclid=IwAR0XSDoxy6opduLfPNSlgo0a1HRBu-Olhh3tfcn8ku0J7pEA5La_xpyqDJA