Chapter
1
The
Activities of Maharaja Priyavrata
(9) There did the
deva-rishi [Nârada] recognizing the
swan-carrier of his almighty father Lord Hiranyagarbha
[Brahmâ], together with Priyavrata and his
father immediately rise to their feet to worship him with
respect, folded hands and all the paraphernalia.
Chapter
2 The
Activities of Mahârâja
Âgnîdhra
(3) Understanding that
did the Mighty Lord, the first person of the universe,
sent down from his abode the celestial girl, the apsara
Pûrvacitti.
(14) My eyes are
restlessly moving in all directions, distracted by the
ball struck by your lotus palm; don't you care about your
curls of hair hanging loose; is that lower garment of you
not giving you trouble taken up by the wind like a man
does attached to women?
Chapter
3: Rsabhadeva's
Appearance in the Womb of Merudevî, the Wife
of
King
Nâbhi
(2)
When
he assuredly with great faith and devotion and a pure
mind was worshiping, manifested the Supreme Lord out of
His love to fulfill the desires of His devotees, Himself
in His most beautiful, unconquerable form that is
pleasing to the mind and eyes with its captivating
beautiful limbs, although with the introductory pravargya
ceremony as was initiated, and the ingredients, the right
place and time, the hymns, the priests, the gifts to the
priests and by means of the regulative principles
themselves that could not be obtained.
Chapter
4:
The
Characteristics of Rsabhadeva
(19) When He, the
Supreme Lord, once toured around and reached the holy
land of Brahmâvarta [between the rivers the
Sarasvatî and Drishadvatî to the N. W. of
Hastinâpura] did he, overheard by the citizens
in a meeting of the best of the brahmins, say the
following to his attentive and well-behaved sons,
lecturing to them although they excelled in self-control
and devotion.
Chapter
5:
Lord
Rsabhadeva's Teachings to His Sons
(10-13) By following a
spiritually advanced person, a guru; in devotional
service unto Me, by not desiring, in tolerance for the
dual world and as well by inquiring and by realizing the
truth of the miseries of the living being everywhere; by
practicing austerities and penances and giving up on
sensual pleasures; by working for Me, listening to
stories about Me as also by always keeping company with
the devoted; by singing about My qualities; by being
without enmity, by being equal to all, by subduing ones
emotions, o sons; by desiring to give up on the
identification with ones home and body, by studying the
yoga-literatures; by living solitary, by fully
controlling the breath, the senses and the mind; by
developing faith, by always observing celibacy, by being
ever vigilant, by restraint of speech; by thinking of Me,
seeing Me everywhere; by developing knowledge, wisdom and
by being illumined by the practice of yoga; by patience,
enthusiasm and endowed with goodness and benevolence, one
can give up the false identification with the material
world, the cause of material bondage.
(30) Here and there
passing through cities, villages, mines, lands, gardens,
valley-communities, military encampments, cowsheds,
farms, restingplaces for pilgrims, hills and forests,
hermitages and so on, was He surrounded by bad people and
flies and was He like an elephant coming from the forest
beaten away and threatened, urinated and spit upon,
thrown into the dust, with the stones and the stool,
farted at and given bad names; but He didn't care about
that because He, from His understanding how the body
relates to the soul, knew that this dwelling place of a
body that is called real, was not a habitat fit for a
gentleman; instead He remained situated in His personal
glory in denial of the 'I 'and 'Mine' and wandered
unperturbed alone all over the earth.
