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The herding folk were accustomed to pay worship to the god Indra, the Hindu counterpart of Zeus, king of heaven and lord of rain. One day when they had made their offering to the lad Krshna said to them: “Indra is no supreme deity, though he is king in heaven; he is afraids of the titans. Furthermore, the rain and prosperity for which you are praying depended on th sun, which draws up the waters and makes them fall again. What can Indra do? Whatever comes to pass is determined by the laws of nature and the spirit. ‘ . . .
Indra was enraged, and sent for the king of clouds, whom he commanded to pour rain over the people until all should be swept away. . . . But Krsna filled Mount Govardhan with th eheat of his inexhaustible energy, lifted it with his little finger, and bid the people take shelter beneath. The rain stuck the mountain, hissed and evaporated. The torrent fell seven days, but not a drop touched community of herdsmen.
Then the god (Indra) realized that the opponent must be an incarnation of the Primal Being when Krsna went out next day to gaze the cows, playing music on his flute, the King of Heaven came down on his great white elephant, Airavata, fell on his face at the feet of the smiling lad, and made submission. ~ Page 282
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The sense of Krsna’s advise to do worship to the mountain rather than the king of gods, which to the Western reader may seem strange, is that the Way of Devotion (Bhakti marga) must begin with things known and loved by the devotee, not remote, unimaginable conceptions. Since the Godhead is immanent in all, He is in the Godhead within the devotee that makes it possible for him to discover Godhead in the world without. This mystery is illustrated in Krshna’s double presence during the act of worship. ~ Page 283
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