The story of Gajendra Moksha from the Bhagavat Purana speaks of an elephant king, Gajendra, who is in a state of erotica arousal, and is having fun with his herd of cow elephants in a lotus lake in a heady erotic atmosphere. But the pleasure is destroyed by a crocodile that attacks the elephant king and threatens to drown him under water. The elephant king who is used to power suddenly discovers he is helpless and no one can help him. He, therefore, turns to the one force in the universe that is Lord Vishnu. With his trunk he raises a lotus flower and prays to Vishnu and Vishnu immediately comes and rescues him from the dreaded crocodile.

The story is a spiritual allegory: Gajendra representing our mind which is seduced by charms in the material world, embodied as the lotus lake, and the strife of life is represented by the crocodile, liberation from which can only happen through devotion or bhakti, embodied in the lotus flower and raised by the elephant to Vishnu.