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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 7]
Personality of Godhead;  kṛpayā —out of causeless mercy;  ujjahāra —delivered him.
TRANSLATION
The Personality of Godhead, after hearing the elephant's plea, felt that he needed His immediate help, for he was in great distress. Thus at once the Lord appeared there on the wings of the king of birds, Garuḍa, fully equipped with His weapon, the wheel [cakra]. And with the wheel He cut to pieces the mouth of the crocodile to save the elephant, and He delivered the elephant by lifting him by his trunk.
PURPORT
The Lord resides in His Vaikuṇṭha planet. No one can estimate how far away this planet is situated. It is said, however, that anyone trying to reach that planet by airships or by mindships, traveling for millions of years, will find it still unknown. Modern scientists have invented airships which are material, and a still finer material attempt is made by the  yogīs  to travel by mindships. The  yogīs  can reach any distant place very quickly with the help of mindships. But neither the airship nor the mindship has access into the kingdom of God in the Vaikuṇṭhaloka, situated far beyond the material sky. Since this is the situation, how was it possible for the prayers of the elephant to be heard from such an unlimitedly distant place, and how could the Lord at once appear on the spot? These things cannot be calculated by human imagination. All this was possible by the unlimited power of the Lord, and therefore the Lord is described here as  aprameya , for not even the best human brain can estimate His powers and potencies by mathematical calculation. The Lord can hear from such a distant place, He can eat from there, and He can appear simultaneously in all places at a moment's notice. Such is the omnipotency of the Lord.
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ज्यायान् गुणैरवरजोऽप्यदितेः सुतानां
लोकान् विचक्रम इमान् यदथाधियज्ञः।
क्षमां वामनेन जगृहे त्रिपदच्छलेन
याञ्चामृते पथि चरन् प्रभुभिर्न चाल्यः॥१७॥