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about the salvation of the  brāhmaṇa  and the cobbler, and Nārāyaṇa replied, “After leaving this body, the cobbler shall come here to me.”
“What about the  brāhmaṇa ?” Nārada asked.
“He will have to remain there for a number of births. I do not know when he is coming.”
Nārada Muni was astonished, and he finally said, “I can’t understand the mystery of this.”
“That you will see,” Nārāyaṇa said. “When they ask you what I am doing in My abode, tell them that I am threading the eye of a needle with an elephant.”
When Nārada returned to earth and approached the  brāhmaṇa , the  brāhmaṇa  said, “Oh, you have seen the Lord? What was He doing?”
“He was threading an elephant through the eye of a needle,” Nārada answered.
“I don’t believe such nonsense,” the  brāhmaṇa  replied. Nārada could immediately understand that the man had no faith and that he was simply a reader of books.
Nārada then left and went on to the cobbler, who asked him, “Oh, you have seen the Lord? Tell me, what was He doing?”
“He was threading an elephant through the eye of a needle,” Nārada replied.
The cobbler began to weep, “Oh, my Lord is so wonderful, He can do anything.”
“Do you really believe that the Lord can push an elephant through the hole of a needle?” Nārada asked.
“Why not?” the cobbler said, “Of course I believe it.”