Techniques of Hearing and Memorizing 95
While he was thinking like this, in Vaikuntha Lord Narayana,
seated with the goddess of fortune, Laksmi, began to smile humor-
ously. On seeing this smiling of the Lord, all the goddesses of fortune
who were attending the Lord became very curious and asked Lord
Narayana why He was smiling. The Lord, however, did not reply to
their inquisitiveness, but instead immediately sent for the brahmana.
An airplane sent from Vaikuntha immediately brought the brahmana
into Lord Narayana’s presence. When the brahmana was thus present
before the Lord and the goddesses of fortune, the Lord explained the
whole story. The brahmana was then fortunate enough to get an
eternal place in Vaikuntha in the association of the Lord and His
Laksmis. This shows how the Lord is all-pervading, in spite of His
being locally situated in His abode. Although the Lord was present
in Vaikuntha, He was present also in the heart of the brahmana when
he was meditating on the worshiping process. Thus, we can under-
stand that things offered by the devotees even in meditation are ac-
cepted by the Lord, and they help one achieve the desired result.
