The Gopas were terrified. Badly.

The rains shows absolutely no signs of stopping and the elders realized the folly of what they had done. They all ran to Nanda's house, completely drenched in the unnatural rains. And all of them were furious with Nanda.

"All this is because of you!" The eldest man of the village screeched angrily. "You listened to your son and you stopped Indra's worship."

The sky rumbled as another thunder screamed through the sky.

"Indra is furious with us." The man screamed again. "What is going to save us now?"

The rain if anything increased its ferociousness far too much.

"If Indra decides it, then the entire Vrindavan is going to sink in this deluge. Listening to the childish words of your son, you angered the King of the Devas!" The man thundered again.

The other Gopas had also abandoned their flooding homes and come to Nanda's house.

The man looked at the other Gopas and then at Nanda, furiously. "We have incurred the wrath of the Gods. Nothing can save Vrindavan anymore."

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Krishna was silent until now. But he just could not bear to watch his father look so desperate and unhappy as he was looking now.

Krishna came forward.

"Nothing is going to happen to us." Krishna told then huge crowd outside his house. They were all outside his house, shivering in the rains, looking completely dispirited. But Krishna could not let them be. He came out in the rain and looked at his people.

"Nothing is going to happen to any of us." Krishna called out again.

"What can we go, Krishna?" A lady in the front wailed. "Our homes are unlivable. I am sure that in a few more hours, this entire village is going to washed away." The woman looked at Krishna with a pathetic expression on her face. "Who will help us when the Gods themselves are determined to destroy us?"

"We seek the help of whom we have always trusted." Krishna said firmly.

The Gopa people frowned. But the words of Krishna made no sense to them.

"Who will help us?" Another woman demanded.

Krishna smiled. "We prayed to the Govardhana – our mountain. It will help us. The Govardhana is still there. Rock solid and the rains can do nothing to it. We will go there."

Another man spoke with the first degree of hope in his voice. "We will go and hide in the caves of Govardhana, till the rains wash away, Vrindavan." But then the doubts in the man's voice surfaced again. "We are so many of us. How can we all be safe in the few caves?"

Krishna smiled again. "We will know when we go there." That was the only answer Krishna would give them.

So the people collected their cattle and took whatever they could manage and followed Krishna.

Drenched, completely broken up and clueless, they followed Krishna. And soon they reached the Govardhana.

What the Gopas saw after that could not be explained. Until now, they had heard about Krishna's bravery, a lot of unexplained things and rumours that Krishna could be the Avatara of Lord Vishnu. But that was the day, the Gopas realized that probably, all that was not just a rumour.

Krishna lifted the entire Govardhana mountain and he lifted it as if it was absolutely no weight at all. And he carried it, on his little finger and kept it high up from the ground.

Shocked, both from the cold and what they were seeing, the Gopas came under the mountain- safe and very well protected from the rain.

The rains raged outside, the fields and the houses of Vrindavan was washed away in the rain. But then nothing happened to the people of Vrindavan. Not one thing.

After the first day, there were even storms and hurricanes along with the rain.

But then the people of Vrindavan were safe.

The rains raged on for seven full days. Without respite.

Finally at the end of the seventh night, the rain clouds just looked like it did not have anything more to pour down.

A weak sun suddenly peered out peeking through the clouds.

The people in Vrindavan cheered. Somehow, they all realized that the worst that Indra could do, was over.

(Indra is a rather interesting God in Hindu Mythology. In the early Vedic period he was the principal God, as the bringer of rains. Most of the prayers made in the Rig Veda (The first written composition of the Aryans, written during the early Vedic period) are made to Indra, who is worshiped as the bringer of water

But by the late Vedic period, Indra's importance had decreased. In fact, he was made into a coward and a very lecherous character.

The act of Krishna of openly defying Indra by shielding the people under the Govardhana, was probably the death knell for worship of Indra. Because after this incident, Indra's worship more or less ceased in the country.

The lifting of the Govardhana is also the first "miracle" which Krishna performed before all the people of Gokul. After this incident, it was cemented that Krishna was indeed, the avatara of Lord Vishnu.

Finally, it is said that at the end of the seventh day, Indra's pride of humbled. And that he came to Krishna and apologized to him.

And as a mark that there was reconciliation between Indra and Krishna, it is said that Indra asked Krishna to help Arjuna – Indra's son and one of the most important heroes of the Mahabharatha.)