Season of surrender

From Hayasirsa pancaratra quoted in Gopala Campu Ch.1.35 "Description of Goloka" :

The pleasurable nature of material objects like flowers with fragrance and taste exist in the spiritual world as the very essence of pleasure.  Because the objects are devoid of any inferior qualities belonging to material objects they are the very form of pleasure.  Know that the faulty portions of a fruit like skin, seed and tough sections exist in material objects.  Nothing in the spiritual world is made of material elements."

Srila Prabhupada : "whether it is unripe or ripe a mango is a mango"

"Similarly, before attaining love of Godhead, you have got different stages. Just like the same mango, it passes through different stages, then one day it comes nice yellow color, fully ripened, and taste is so nice. The same mango. The mango does not change, but it comes to the mature stage." Lecture Seattle 1968

Now is the time to surrender!

The heart is turning

into a ripe mango,

a fruit in the summer

of Vraja,

without rind or peel,

it releases unobstructed

its sweet aroma,

and is now ready

to serve and to give.

Born from the creeper

twining around the trunk

of love,

this fruit of the heart

eschews pit or seed,

is soft and juicy,

determined to commit,

has no tough parts,

and fleshy and saturated

with warm sun rays,

it is golden with devotion

and firm with faith.

From a cluster of blessings

grew this pulpy fruit,

without shell or pips,

its core - an ambrosia mix

enveloped in bliss -

was nurtured by the sap

of bhakti flowing from her limbs,

so the tender shoot ripens

the tasty selfless love,

keeps flourishing and inebriating

with the colors of its qualities,

sweeter and sweeter

its fragrance far reaching

desires deeply

to be touched by the palms ⁽¹⁾

of its beloved Lord.

1) Madhurya Kadambini "Seventh Shower of Nectar" -"[..] he [the devotee] may suddenly try to imagine how it feels to be touched by the tender palms of the Lord..."