Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamrtam -Positive and Progressive Immortality, a Sanskrit devotional treatise on the subject of Divine Surrender by Srila Sridhar Maharaj, has become a standard text-book for devotees everywhere. "This is the first book to read -- and it is also the last," says Srila Govinda Maharaj in Chapter 4 of his book, Golden Reflections, which is condensed here. "If you read this book carefully, you will get everything.
 
It is divided into the six kinds of saranagati, or surrender, and many examples are given from the scriptures as well as from the devotees' lives. Everything is covered here, and if you read it minutely you must stand in the plane of dedication. It is a very valuable book." And in an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion, Volume III, Srila Sridhar Maharaj tells us what inspired him to compose this book