Letter # 35: “The Elephant & The Crocodile – 3”

The crocodile, of this narration, was King Huhu in his previous life. Huhu lived in the planet of heavenly singers, the Gandharva planet. One day, while he was enjoying being at the water’s edge with his queens, Huhu happened to pull the leg of a sage who was also in the water, bathing. The sage, in his anger, cursed Huhu to become a crocodile. Huhu pleaded for pardon. So the sage gave the benediction that in his life as a crocodile, the Supreme Lord would be personally come to deliver Huhu. Thus when the Supreme Lord came to Gajendra’s aid, “the Lord severed the crocodile’s mouth from the body with His disc…” SB C:8:3:33. The crocodile was thus freed from his crocodile life, and in his next life regained his position on the heavenly planet of singers.
These scriptures illustrates that the “curses” that we face are not to be viewed negatively but as boons. You see, the bad things that happen to we “good” people might eventually direct us, the afflicted, to the Lord.
Romans 8:20-21 also speaks of tribulation being imposed on creation: “For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
In Matthew 11:21 “Peter remembered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!" Remembering God is a good solution. Guru Nanak sings “Jis rakhai tis koe na marai; So mua jis manoh bisarai…” SS Asht 22:1, which verse is rendered in English as:
“None can destroy him whom God preserves
He who forgets God is virtually dead”


God Bless; Allah Hu Akbar; May The Forces Of The Universe Bring You Harmony; Hare Krishna; Radha-Swami; and Nanak Naam Chardi Kala Tere Bhane Sarbat Dha Bhalla.

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References: "The Holy Bible" Online version; "The Koran" (As translated by SV Mir Ahmed Ali 2005 ISBN 0-9761870-0-0); "The Bhagavad Gita As it Is" by Srila Prabhupada (ISBN 0-89213-268-X); "I Am That" Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ISBN 0-89386-022-0; The Dhammapada ISBN-10:1-84483-344-5; The Sacred Sukhmani ISBN 81-7205-098-4; Wikipedia.