What we came into connection with (Srila Sridhar Maharaj)

 Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaj

  From Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion, Vol 1

Whatever beautiful and valuable things we come across, we cannot but surrender ourselves to them. That is the criterion. If we come across anything higher within our vicinity, our appreciation means surrendering ourselves unto that. So according to the degree of our surrender, we have to measure what degree of quality of truth we have come across. That can be measured only according to the degree and intensity of surrender, or how much we could surrender to what we came into connection with, to the point of no return.