What is true surrender and service to the Lord? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us through examples from the Ramayana.

The Divine must be revered at all times; what pleases the Divine must be understood and followed. The Ramayana gives two examples of such consecrated lives, those of Anjaneya and Lakshmana. Anjaneya dedicated every moment of his life, every wave of thought, every twitch of muscle, to his Master, Rama. When Rama sent him in the southerly direction on the mission to search for Sita, he was neither elated on being thus recognised as an efficient instrument nor depressed at the dangerous nature of his task. He knew that Rama would confer on him the skill and strength needed to fulfil the errand; in fact, all his skill and all his strength were 'His gifts'. To feel that he was too weak an instrument was, he concluded, an insult to Rama’s Omniscience and Grace. Lakshmana too was a mighty hero, for he drew strength from the Divine itself. And, he had no other strength. Once, while moving about in the forest as exiles, Rama instructed him to choose a nice spot and erect a hut thereon for Sita and Himself. Lakshmana was so shocked with pain at this that he fell on the ground; he lamented that he had fallen from grace.  “Have I a will apart from yours? How could you ever imagine that I could exercise my judgement independently and select a site myself? Tell me, where and how it should be built, and it will be done. But, I have no judgement of my own; I have surrendered it long ago.” That was the reply of Lakshmana.