Mohanji
Everyday Krishna would visit the garden and say to all the plants. “I love you”. The plants were very happy and responded the same.
One day Krishna rushed quickly into the garden very alarmed. He went to the bamboo plant and said “I need your life. I need to cut you”. The bamboo thought and said “You don’t have any other choice?” Krishna said, “No, no other way”. It said “OK” and gave itself up.
Krishna cut the bamboo and made holes in it, and each time, He carved holes, the bamboo cried in pain. He made a beautiful flute and kept this flute with Him all the time.
The Gopis became jealous and asked the bamboo to tell them its secret. The bamboo said “I gave myself up. He did whatever was right for me. In the process I had to undergo a lot of pain but I have just become His instrument.
This is complete surrender.