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insulted a brahmana. May he therefore enter the region of dark-
ness and receive the dull, dumb body of an elephant.
PURPORT
An elephant is very strong, it has a very big body, and it can work
very hard and eat a large quantity of food, but its intelligence is not at all
commensurate with its size and strength. Thus in spite of so much bodily
strength, the elephant works as a menial servant for a human being.
Agastya Muni thought it wise to curse the King to become an elephant
because the powerful King did not receive Agastya Muni as one is obliged
to receive a brahmana. Yet although Agastya Muni cursed Maharaja
Indradyumna to become an elephant, the curse was indirectly a benedic-
tion, for by undergoing one life as an elephant, Indradyumna Maharaja
ended the reactions for all the sins of his previous life. Immediately after
the expiry of the elephant’s life, he was promoted to Vaikunthaloka to
become a personal associate of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Narayana, in a body exactly like that of the Lord. This is called sdriipya-
mukti.
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Sri-Suka uvdca
evam Saptvd gato ‘gastyo
bhagavan nrpa sanugah
indradyumno "pi rdjarsir
distarn tad upadharayan
Gpannah kaufijarim yonim
atma-smrti-vindsinim
hary-arcananubhavena
yad-gajatve "py anusmrtih
