Chapter 1:
The Activities of Mahârâja
Priyavrata
(9) Recognizing the
swan-carrier of his almighty father Lord Hiranyagarbha [Brahmâ]
the devarishi [Nârada], Priyavrata and his father
[Svâyambhuva Manu] present there immediately rose to their feet
with their hands folded in order to be respectfully of worship with all
the paraphernalia.
Chapter 2: The Activities
of Mahârâja Âgnîdhra
(4) Strolling
around
in
the
woods she thus could be found in that place of meditation
which was very beautiful, dense with various trees with masses of high
reaching, golden creepers attached to the branches. In the clear waters
of the lake filled with lotuses she there sang along with the
vibrations of the pleasant sounds of the communicating pairs of land
birds and water birds like ducks, swans and such.
Chapter 3: Rishabhadeva's
Appearance
in
the
Womb
of
Merudevî,
the Wife of King Nâbhi
(6) You
are
propitiated
by
Your servants who in great ecstasy do their prayers
with faltering voices and perform their
worship with water, fresh twigs
of green, tulasî leaves and sprouts of grass.
Chapter 4: The Characteristics of Rishabhadeva
(8) The Supreme Lord Rishabha
after accepting His kingdom as His field of work, set an example by
living with His spiritual teachers and giving them gifts upon finishing
His studies. Being ordered to take up the duties of a householder He
married with Jayantî who had been offered to Him by Indra and
taught by example how to perform both types of activities as mentioned
in the scriptures [of defending the religion and fighting injustice].
He begot a hundred sons [in her and in co-wives or via his sons with
daughters-in-law] that were exactly like Him.
Chapter 5: Lord Rishabhadeva's Teachings to His
Sons
(10-13) With the use of one's
intelligence one can give up the false identification with the material
world, the cause of material bondage by following a spiritually
advanced person, a guru as also by devotional service unto Me, by not
desiring, by exercising tolerance with the dual world and by inquiries;
by realizing the truth of the miseries of the living beings everywhere;
by practicing austerities and penances and by giving up on sensual
pleasures; by working for Me, listening to stories about Me as also by
always keeping company with the ones devoted; by singing about My
qualities, by freedom from enmity, by being equal to all, by subduing
one's emotions o sons; by trying to forsake the identification with
one's home and body, by studying yoga literatures; by living alone, by
entirely controlling the breath, the senses and the mind; by developing
faith, by continually observing celibacy, by constant vigilance, by
restraint of speech; by thinking of Me, seeing Me everywhere, by
developing knowledge and through wisdom in being illumined by the
practice of yoga; and by being endowed with determination, enthusiasm
and goodness.
(27) Engage all of your mind,
your words and the perception of all your active and receptive senses
directly in My worship,
for without doing so a person will not be able
to free himself from the great illusion which is Yama's deathtrap.'
