The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 15-14.

Chapter 15: The Rarest of Devotees-14.

So there is a transfiguration of values when the soul rises to God-consciousness, and the mortal does not remain mortal anymore.
The immortality that is attained is not a length and duration of individual persistence, but an expansion of the soul’s consciousness to the infinitude of God’s Being.
We say sometimes that the river enters the ocean—well, the ocean has become conscious of itself, as it were.
Such a magnitude of attainment is unthinkable.
“Whoever wholeheartedly concentrates his entire being upon Me, such a person is redeemed by Me,” says the great Master.

What we are expected to perform or do in our religion or spirituality is to put together of all the parts of our personality and offer it to God.
This is called self-surrender—atma samarpana or saranagati. Instead of offering a banana or a coconut, one offers oneself to God, because that is the last thing that one would offer.
We are prepared to part with what we have, but we cannot part with our own selves, because the dearest thing is not what we posses—the dearest thing is our own self.
Swami Krishnananda
 To be continued  ....