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Gajendra's Prayers of Surrender
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श्रीवादरायणिरुवाच
एवं व्यवसितो बुद्ध्या समाधाय मनो हृदि । 
  जजाप परमं जाप्यं प्राग्जन्मन्यनुशिक्षितम् ॥ १ ॥
śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca 
  evam vyavasito buddhyā 
  samādhāya mano hṛdi 
  jajāpa paramaṁ jāpyaṁ 
  prāg-janmany anuśikṣitam
śrī-bādarāyaṇiḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; evam—thus; vyavasitaḥ—fixed; buddhyā—by intelligence; samādhāya—for concentration; manaḥ—the mind; hṛdi—in consciousness or in the heart; jajāpa—he chanted; paramaṁ—a supreme; jāpyaṁ—mantra he had learned from great devotees; prāk-janmani—in his previous birth; anuśikṣitam—practiced.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, the King of the elephants, Gajendra, fixed his mind in his heart with perfect intelligence and chanted a mantra which he had learned in his previous birth as Indradyumna and which he remembered by the grace of Kṛṣṇa.
PURPORT
Such remembrance is described in  Bhagavad-gītā  (6.43–44):
tatra taṁ buddhi-saṁyogaṁ 
  labhate paurva-dehikam 
  yatate ca tato bhūyaḥ 
  saṁsiddhau kuru-nandana
pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva 
  hriyate hy avaśo 'pi saḥ
In these verses it is assured that even if a person engaged in devotional service falls down, he is not degraded, but is placed in a position in which