Svīkara — Acceptance of Activities Favorable to Pure Devotion

Svikara, acceptance, closes Saranagati with three songs that return the book to its beginning: anukulyasya sankalpa, the first of Rupa Gosvami's six limbs of surrender, the resolve to accept whatever genuinely favors devotion to Krishna. Bhaktivinoda Thakura's decision to place this theme at the very end rather than only at the book's opening lets Saranagati close where it started, but now from the far side of everything the intervening forty-seven songs have worked through — rejection of the unfavorable, trust in Krishna's protection, His guardianship, full self-offering, humility, and devotional longing. The section grounds this closing acceptance in real, physical geography: Godruma, one of the nine islands of Sridhama Mayapura where Bhaktivinoda himself lived and wrote much of his later poetry, and Radha-kunda, the sacred pond in Vrindavana associated with Srimati Radharani. Saranagati's final song, set at a small forest dwelling by that pond's edge, lets Bhaktivinoda's long 1893 meditation on surrender close not on argument but on a single, intimate image of where that surrender is ultimately meant to lead.