Knowledge of Krgna’s Energies 25
about the salvation of the brahmana and the cobbler,
and Narayana replied, “After leaving this body, the
cobbler shall come here to me.”

“What about the brahmana?” Narada asked.

“He will have to remain there for a number of
hirths. I do not know when he is coming.”

Narada Muni was astonished, and he finally said,
‘| can’t understand the mystery of this.”

“That you will see,” Narayana said. “When they
ask you what I am doing in My abode, tell them that
lam threading the eye of a needle with an elephant.”

When Narada returned to earth and approached
the brahmana, the brahmana said, “Oh, you have
seen the Lord? What was He doing?”

‘‘He was threading an elephant through the eye of
a needle,” Narada answered.

“YT don’t believe such nonsense,” the brahmana
replied. Narada could immediately understand that
the man had no faith and that he was simply a reader
of books.

Narada 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,” Narada 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
clephant through the hole of a needle?” Narada
asked.

“Why not?” the cobbler said, “Of course I believe
i.”
