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For a 1000 years Gajendran mistakenly
belived that, he could escape from the clutches of the crocodile. After the passing of 1000 years, Gajendran
realized that there was a Supreme Force which prevented death from approaching
both Gajendran and the crocodile. Neither had eaten for 1000 years and yet
neither had died. For 1000 years Gajendran had attempted to rescue himself but
in vain. Now, he was afraid that he would die in the pond without ever getting
a chance to offer the beautiful lotus bloom to the Lord. He wasn’t afraid of
death since he knew that he the atma was eternal and when released from his
body would attain the Lord’s divine feet. Gajendran’s only concern was that he
would die before ever getting a chance to offer the beautiful flower to the
Lord.
For the first time in a thousand years,
the elephant realised its inability to protect itself and cried out for help,
‘hey Bagawan who is the cause of this Universe and from whom this entire
Universe came forth!’
The reason Gajendran mentioned the Lord as
the cause of Universe as well as the origin was to establish the fact that the
Lord is the Upadhana Karanam as well as the nimitha karanam. When we make a
table from wood, the raw material wood is the Upathana Karyam whereas the carpenter
who fashions the table is the Nimitha Karanam. Our Lord is the raw material as
well as the fashioner of the Universe. The Lord is like our thumb and is of the
size of our thumb when He is located in our heart. The other four fingers in
our hand represent achit (non-living
matter), the badha atma (atmas like us in samsara), muktha atma (atmas
freed from samsara) and nithya atmas (the atmas who were never bonded by
samsara). All the four; achit, and the three types of atmas require the Lord’s
help to function just like the way in which the fingers require the help of
thumb to perform tasks. The achit and the chit (the three types of atmas) are
separate entities from the Lord and yet are never separated from the Lord as
they form part of the Lord’s divine form. Just like the way in which whiteness
cannot be separated from a white cloth, we cannot be separated from the Lord’s
divine form yet we are separate from him like the “whiteness” which is
different from the cloth. The colour white is the attribute of the cloth and
similarly we are the Lord’s attribute.
As soon as the elephant called Him,
Perumal rushed to the pond on top of garudazhwar to save Gajendran. The reason
the Lord did not help Gajendran for 1000 years was because Gajendran felt that
he could save himself.
During Draupadi vasthrabaharana charitram
when Dushashana tried to disrobe Draupadi by pulling her saree, Draupadi tried
to fight-off Dushashasana by trying to pull the saree from his grasp while
crying the Lord’s name. Lord Krishna was in Dwaraka and He knew about the
incident occurring in Hastinapura. He was playing a game of dice with Rukmini
Piratti when He got up looking concerned.
Piratti knew that something was wrong. She
asked, ‘what is the matter? Is everything okay?’
‘Draupadi is in distress! Dushashanan is
trying to humiliate her in Hastinapuram by trying to disrobe her.’
‘Why are you still here?’ asked Piratti.
‘Shouldn’t you be at Hastinapuram to help Draupadi?’
‘I do want to help Draupadi but how can I
go there when she hasn’t called for me? Yes, she is crying out my name but she
isn’t really crying for help as she believes that she can save herself from
Dushashana. She has more faith in her efforts than in me.’
At Hastinapuram, Dushashana had almost
disrobed Draupadi. With one more pull her saree would come off completely. At
this instant Draupadi relesed the saree from her hand; she raised both her
hands above her head, folded her palms in completely surrender. With firm faith
she called the Lord by the name of “Govinda”. The moment she started to
pronunce the first syllable in Govinda, the Lord incarnated as her saree and
saved her. To Dushashana’s utter amazement he couldn’t disrobe Draupadi.
Dushashana had the strength of 1000 elephants and yet he became very tired trying
to pull the saree. The moment he thought he had pulled one saree he found a
saree of another colour joined to the end of the one he had pulled. On one side
of the room a pile of sarees as high as a mountain lay. Dushashana fell down
from exhaustion and Draupadi was saved.
The Lord comes to our aid only when we
really want Him to come and only when we realize that we are incapable of saving
ourself. He also comes only when we have firm belief in Him. If even a slight
doubt exists in our mind about the Lord’s capacity to appear at our side to
help us, He will not come. Thus we have to perform total surrender along with
complete faith if we want the Lord to come to our aid. After 1000 years,
Gajendran performed saranagathi with faith and the Lord rushed to his aid.
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