Years rolled on and Draupadi was being humiliated by Dussasana in the court of Dhritarashtra at Hastinapur. He was trying to disrobe her. She cried out in the open assembly for help and prayed to Lord Krishna to come immediately to her rescue and save her honour. Lord Krishna who was then at Dwaraka hundreds of miles away, readily responded to her sincere prayer. He shook the little finger, the self same finger that was bandaged by a piece of cloth torn from her sari by Draupadi. Lo! Yards and yards of cloth flowed into the court covering the body of Draupadi. Thus Draupadi’s small act of service and sacrifice brought to her later on, the Lord’s Grace and protection in her great calamity from which none of the her heroic husbands, the Pandavas, could save her.

A good act is a Godly act for which God rewards at the appropriate time.