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There is this beautiful story of Draupadi...
[the wife of Arjuna and his four brothers]

She was married with the five Pandavas, and she regarded all five equally as her husband. She loved all of them in the same way.

One day, they played a dice game with their cousin Duryodhana. The Pandavas had put everything that they had in this game, and they lost everything, because the dice that was used was a magic one. So they lost everything.

Seeing that, the other side - the Kauravas - told them: “What else do you have? Now that you don’t have anything left, we want you to give also your wife, put your wife also!” And the Pandavas agreed. So they even put their wife Draupadi. And... they also lost her!

So to ridicule them, the Kauravas asked to bring Draupadi to the court, and they tried to remove her sari. Of course, when somebody is trying to remove your clothes, if you don’t want, what are you doing? You hold on to it, no?

So, Draupadi was calling to Krishna: “Govinda, come! Where are you?” But at the same time, she was holding to her clothes very tightly. She kept calling Govinda, but he didn’t come. So she finally felt tired, and... she let go. She rose her hands up, and called again: “Govinda!”

In thát moment, the Lord appeared. And the sari started to flow continuously: they pulled and pulled and pulled, metres and metres of clothes were coming out from her, and they were not able to remove her clothes. So they renounced, and let her go.

One day, Draupadi finally asked Krishna: “Krishna? When I was in the court, I was calling You, why did it take you so long to come?”

Krishna said: “Well my dear sister, when you called me and pronounced my name ‘Govinda’, when you said ‘Go...’ I was leaving my palace to come to you. When you said ‘vinda’, I was already there!"

"But when I was there... I saw that you were hanging on your clothes. So I couldn’t help you. Only when you had let go of things, when you had let go of your clothes, I came to help."


~bron~