Text 1] Gajendra’s Prayers of Surrender 71

TEXT 1
HAUTE ATA
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$ri-bddardyanir uvdca
evam vyavasito buddhya
samadhaya mano hrdi
Jaj@pa paramam japyarn
prag-janmany anusiksitam

$ri-bddaraéyanih uvéca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; evam—thus;
vyavasitah—fixed; buddhyaé—by intelligence; samédhadya—for con-
centration; manah—the mind; hrdi—in consciousness or in the heart;
Jajapa—he chanted; paramam—a supreme; ja4pyam—mantra he had
learned from great devotees; prak-janmani—in his previous birth;
anusiksitam —practiced.

TRANSLATION

Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Thereafter, the King of the
elephants, Gajendra, fixed his mind in his heart with perfect intel-
ligence and chanted a mantra which he had learned in his previous
birth as Indradyumna and which he remembered by the grace of
Krsna.

PURPORT
Such remembrance is described in Bhagavad-gita (6.43—44):

tatra tam buddhi-samyogam
labhate paurva-dehikam

yatate ca tato bhiiyah
samsiddhau kuru-nandana

purvabhydsena tenaiva
hriyate hy avaso ‘pi sah

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
