In plain words
Śrī Kṛṣṇa's vow to protect His devotees
Embodiments of Prema! True Ānanda is in the Upaniṣads alone. ‘Ṣat’ means to stay. To stay how? One must stay as though there were no movement. ‘Upa’ means near by. With vibration it does not move at all. Such Satya alone is true Satya. It is what gives steady, pure and true Ānanda, without any reaction, resound or reflection. Such Ānanda comes to us only through the Upaniṣad. Once, when the Pāṇḍavas were living in the forest in exile, Dharmarāja and Draupadī were walking through the forest. Near there Romaṛṣi had built himself an āśrama and was doing tapas. His hairs had spread all over the āśrama. In front of his āśrama stood a big tree. On that tree a single fruit of amṛta had grown. For that fruit the maharṣi had done tapas for many days. Along that same path, as Draupadī moved about the forest, her eye fell on that fruit. At once she said to Dharmarāja, “If you pluck that fruit, we can eat for three or four days.” To please her, Dharmaja struck that fruit with an arrow. It fell down. Dharmaja was trying to pick it up. He could not. Just then Draupadī came there. She was an embodiment of great power. She too could not do it. Just then Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, who had gone out to bring fruits, roots and tubers, arrived. They too tried very hard. But the fruit did not move. Seeing that, Bhīma came. The fruit caught his eye. As soon as he saw it: “Does it take this many people to lift it? Brother! Come here, I will lift it,” he said. He went and tried to lift the fruit with the left hand. It did not move. Then he tried to lift it with both hands. As all the Pāṇḍavas went about in this way in the area of Romaṛṣi's āśrama, their feet fell on those hairs, and the hairs kept lifting up. Because of this, there was a chance that Romaṛṣi would get angry. For that reason he might curse the Pāṇḍavas. At that moment Draupadī, to Kṛṣṇa: “Kṛṣṇa! Protector of the helpless!