Samarpana is the bhakti practice of offering or surrendering everything to the divine; it teaches us to surrender our regret and the illusion that we control how love is received.
Samarpana—total offering or surrender to the divine—is the heart of Mirabai's practice. She surrendered her reputation, her marriage, her body, and her future to her devotion to Krishna. This surrender was not passive resignation but active release of the need to control outcomes. Applied to regret about unsaid words, samarpana asks: Can you offer this grief to something larger? Can you release the need to retroactively control how your love was received? You offered what you could. The response, the interpretation, the impact—these belong to the divine, to fate, to the other person's own journey. Samarpana doesn't erase what happened; it stops the exhausting work of trying to rewrite the past. You can acknowledge the words unsaid while surrendering the fantasy that saying them would have changed everything. This creates peace: not because nothing mattered, but because you've done what was yours to do and released what is not.
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