One should accept both pleasures and sorrows with the same feeling. Pleasures and sorrows should all be received in the same manner. Having and not having should not be separated and experienced in isolation. They always go together. One should have the same attitude to reputation as well as lack of reputation. (SSB 1974, p. 222)

Accept Him as your Master; surrender all activities to Him; dedicate your words and deeds and thoughts to Him, as flowers at His feet; He assures you, ‘Mokshayishyami’ - ‘I shall liberate you, He assures you, ‘Maa suchaha’ (Do not grieve). (SSS Vol.5, p. 37)

‘Offer to Me’, ‘Surrender to Me’, ‘Leave everything to Me’. Whoever surrenders, Rama accepts, on the spot, without reservation. (SSS Vol.7, p. 276)

Offerings that are made with no defilement of egoism are gladly accepted by the Lord. If you feel proud or conceited, even the most fragrant flowers placed at the Feet of the Lord will be rejected by Him as unbearably stinking. (SSS Vol.4, p. 35)