SB 8.3 Text 1
Text
śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca
evaṁ vyavasito buddhyā
samādhāya mano hṛdi
jajāpa paramaṁ jāpyaṁ
prāg-janmany anuśikṣitam
evaṁ vyavasito buddhyā
samādhāya mano hṛdi
jajāpa paramaṁ jāpyaṁ
prāg-janmany anuśikṣitam
Synonyms
śrī-bādarāyaṇiḥ uvāca-Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; evam-thus; vyavasitaḥ-fixed; buddhyā-by intelligence; samādhāya-for concentration; manaḥ-the mind; hṛdi-in consciousness or in the heart; jajāpa-he chanted; paramam-a supreme; jāpyam-mantra he had learned from great devotees; prāk-janmani-in his previous birth; anuśikṣitam-practiced.
Translation
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thereafter, the King of the elephants, Gajendra, fixed his mind in his heart with perfect intelligence and chanted a mantra which he had learned in his previous birth as Indradyumna and which he remembered by the grace of Kṛṣṇa.
Purport
Such remembrance is described in Bhagavad-gītā (6.43–44):