Chapter 21:
The Reality of the Sungod Sûrya
(3) In
the
middle
the most powerful master of all the governing heavenly
bodies is situated, the burning sun that with its fire heats the three
worlds and lights them with its rays. That sun globe passing through
the north, through the south or crossing the equator, is known
differently depending its slowness, swiftness or equality of movement.
In its rising and setting or staying up in different positions, it is
making long, short or equally long days while it as ordained moves
through the different signs of the [astrological] zodiac beginning with
the sign of Makara [Capricorn].
Chapter 22: The
movement
of
the
Planets
and their Considered Effects
(3) He [that solar lead of time], this supremely powerful Original
Person who is Nârâyana Himself, the Supersoul of the three
Vedic principles who is there for the benefit and karmic purification
of all the worlds, is the cause sought by all saintly and Vedic
knowing. He divides the year, as He thinks fit, in its twelve parts and
arranges the six seasons beginning with spring with their different
qualities.
Chapter 23:
Description of the Stars of S'is'umâra, our Coiling Galaxy
(4) Some imagine this great army
of luminaries to be a s'is'umâra [a dolphin] and describe it,
concentrated in yoga,
as [that what can be seen of] the Supreme Lord Vâsudeva [see also
a picture
of the celestial sky
as factually seen in a telescope].
Chapter 24:
The Nether Worlds
(10) The gardens and
parks that are most appealing to the mind and senses, pleasure with
their masses of flowers and fruits hanging from the branches of the
trees which, embraced by creepers, nicely bend low being pulled by
gravity. The sensual enjoyment is invoked by a magnificence which
surpasses the beauty of the residential places of the godly: the
variety of birds that in pairs frequent the ponds filled with sparkling
clear water restless with jumping fish, the lotus flowers in those
waters, the lilies, the kuvalaya and kahlâra flowers, the blue
and red lotuses, giant lotuses with thousands of petals and the
uninterrupted joyous sound of all the kinds of sweetly vibrating birds
who built their nests in the forests.
Chapter
25: The
Glories of Lord Ananta
(6) He,
Ananta, is the Supreme Lord, the reservoir of all transcendental
qualities and the original Godhead who in restraint of the force of His
intolerance and wrath [belonging to his mission of destruction] resides
[in His abode] for the welfare of all [the living beings of] all worlds.
Chapter 26:
The Hellish Worlds or the Karmic Rebound
(15) He who in this life unnecessarily
deviated from his path of self-realization and yielded to hypocrisy [or
heresy] is forced into a hell known as Asipatravana ['the razor-sharp
forest'] where he is beaten with a whip so that he, fleeing away left
and right, cuts his body on the two-edged razor sharp palm leaves. He
in denial of his own nature [or neglect of his civil duty] will thus
have to face the result of following the wrong track and with a lot of
pain, stumbling at every step, then stupefied think: 'Oh, what have I
done to myself?'
