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Chapter 30: The
Activities
of
the
Pracetâs
(1) Vidura
said:
'The
sons
of
Prâcînabarhi
you
before
spoke
about
oh
brahmin,
all
successfully
satisfied
the
Lord
with
the song of Lord
S'iva [see 4: 24]; what did
they achieve that way? (2) Oh disciple of Brihaspati,
what was it that the Pracetâs arrived at after meeting the god of mountain
Kailâsa [S'iva] who is so dear to the Lord of Emancipation
and Beatitude? They must have attained the
transcendental position, but what did they by chance obtain in this life or a
next one?'
(3)
Maitreya said: 'The Pracetâs who at the
lake carried out the orders of their father, satisfied by chanting
mantras with their austerity the Indweller [the Supreme Lord]. (4) After the ten thousand years of their severe
austerity [see also 4.24: 14] the Original Person of the Eternal Reality then appeared before
them,
satisfying
and
pacifying
them
with
His
beauty. (5)
Sitting on the back of His carrier bird [Garuda] looking like a cloud on the
summit of Mount Meru, He, wearing yellow garments and the jewel around His neck, dissipated all darkness around. (6) Shining
with
golden
ornaments
He
radiated
with
His
helmet
on
His
head,
His
dazzling
face
and
His
eight
weapons
while assiduously being
served by an entourage
of sages and demigods, with Garuda singing His glories like a
superhuman being [a Kinnara]. (7) With in the midst of His
eight stout arms hanging a flower garland that challenged the beauty of
the Goddess of Fortune, the Original Personality of Godhead glancing mercifully addressed the surrendered sons of
Prâcînabarhi with a voice resounding like thunder. (8) The
Supreme Lord said: 'I am very pleased about your mutual friendship,
about your occupation as friends in the same sense of duty oh sons of
the king. You therefore to your good fortune may ask Me for a boon. (9)
The
human being who consequently remembers you every day in the evening
will find friendship with his brothers and equality of soul with all
living beings. (10) Those persons who in the
morning and the evening praise Me attentively with the song of S'iva, I
shall reward with the fulfillment of all their wishes and a bright
intellect. (11) Your shining glory will be
known the world all over because you so gladly accepted your father's
order. (12) There will be a famous son
[of yours called Vis'ruta] who, in his qualities no way inferior to
Lord Brahmâ, will populate the three worlds with his progeny. (13)
The lotus-eyed daughter
sage
Kandu had from [the girl of heaven named] Pramlocâ, was left to
the care of the [divinity of the] trees, oh sons of
Prâcînabarhi. (14) When she distressed with hunger cried, Soma,
the King of the Moon, by means of his index finger poured the
nectar
compassionately
into
her
mouth. (15) To fulfill the command of your
father who follows My path, to beget
children, without delay marry that
daughter with the
beautiful hips. (16)
May
this well-behaved, slender-waisted girl be a wife fully dedicated to
all of you, with the same character and sense of duty honoring the same righteous way as you do. (17)
By My mercy,
for millions of heavenly years [one year on earth is one day in heaven
see 3: 11] your power
will exist without interruption and you will enjoy all the pleasures of
heaven and earth. (18) Be therefore
steadfast unto Me by means of devotional service; with your mind free
from being contaminated by the modes, you will, not attached to a material existence attain My abode. (19) Even
for
persons
who
have
entered
a
household
life
such
a
family
existence
is
not
considered
a
cause
of
bondage, when one spends every minute of one's time on [engaging in]
good works and [listening to and recounting] the stories about Me. (20)
Having attained this ever fresh Knower present in the heart as
the Supreme Spirit of God the knowers of the Absolute
Truth speak about, one will be free from bewilderment, lamentation and
jubilation.'
(21)
Maitreya said: 'When they heard Him, the
Lord, the remover of all obstacles, thus speak about the supreme
purpose of
life, the
Pracetâs in His presence were liberated from the darkness of the contamination of passion
whereupon they with faltering voices and
folded hands offered prayers to the greatest of all friends. (22)
The
Pracetâs said: 'Again and again we offer the
destroyer of all distress our obeisances who established His name as the magnanimous
One of
the qualities always ahead of the fastest mind and tongue; all glories
to Him whose course cannot be perceived by means of the senses. (23)
Unto
the Most Peaceful
and Pure One we offer our respects. With
one's mind fixed on that what is His, the dual world appears meaningless. Our
obeisances unto Him who, according to the
modes of matter assumed the forms for the maintenance, creation and
annihilation of the universe. (24) We bow before
You, the perfect virtue of goodness, before You oh Lord Hari whose
intelligence liberates. You are the all-pervading Lord
of consciousness Vâsudeva, Krishna, the promoter of all
devotees. (25) Our respects for You as the One with the
lotus
navel, the One with the lotus garland, the One of the lotus feet and
the One with the lotus eyes. (26) We offer our
obeisances unto Him whose garment with the saffron color of a lotus
heart is spotless, unto the Supreme Witness, the shelter of all
living beings. (27) The form You revealed to
us who suffer the material condition oh Lord, puts an end to an
unlimited amount
of troubles; what greater mercy can one expect from You? (28) You who in Your
compassion by Your expansions
[and teachers] are visible to the humble devotees, are - with the
necessary respect of
time - only this much [ - by Your beautiful embodiment and not by
thousands of mantras -] always remembered in someone's devotional
service oh destroyer
of all inauspiciousness. (29) Therewith
[with that form] all desires of the living beings are quieted, however
deep they may have fallen in their laboring; why would You, hidden
in our hearts, fail to know about all [those forms] that we desire? (30)
That
You, oh
Father of the Universe, You as
the Supreme Lord and spiritual master with whom one on the path of
liberation reaches the ultimate goal, are satisfied with us, is the
blessing we are looking for. (31) Nevertheless we pray for a
boon from You oh Lord of transcendence above everything else. There is
no
limit to Your greatness and thus You are celebrated as Ananta [the
Unlimited
One]. (32) A bee
completely happy in achieving the Pârijâta tree [the honey
dripping celestial
wish-fulfilling tree or kalpa-vriksha] doesn't resort to
another tree,
so, having approached Your lotus feet, with the root of everything
directly before our eyes, what, oh what
would we further ask for? (33) [It is about the following
request:] as long as we are
contaminated by Your illusory energy [mâyâ], we have
to wander around in this world according to our workload [our karma].
Grant
us [therefore], for as long as that is the case, the association of
Your loving devotees, whatever
the life [or world] we may have found. (34)
To
enjoy but for a moment the company of those who are attached to the
Supreme Lord bears no comparison with the attainment of heaven,
nor with
the love of not being born again, not even mentioning the [so-called]
benedictions reserved for mortal beings. (35)
In that company the delightful stories are discussed because of which
all material hankering is appeased and among the members there is no
question of any envy or
fear. (36) There where Lord
Nârâyana, the ultimate goal of the renunciates, is
worshiped, the Supreme Lord is personally present by dint of the
repeated conversations about the truth of the ones who managed to break
free from their attachments. (37) How can meeting those
devotees who on foot travel to
the holy places to bring there the purity, not be a pleasure to the
ones who live in fear? (38) We for a
moment personally having been in the presence of Lord S'iva, Your
dearest friend oh Lord, today [therewith] have achieved the
destination that You are, You the expert
physician to cure us by Your company from death, the most difficult to
cure disease of material existence. (39-40)
We who
studied the
scriptures, who pleased the teachers, the brahmins and the elderly; we
who
were good to the spiritually advanced ones [the civilized ones, the âryans]
and
who
free
from
any
envy
honored
their
friends,
brothers
and
all
living
beings;
we
who
were
of all that
severe penance oh Lord and for a long time by the water abstained from
food, did all of that only for the benediction of seeing You, the most
exalted Personality of God, satisfied. (41) Manu,
Brahmâ, the mighty
Lord S'iva as also others purified their
existence by
austerity
and
knowledge
but
in
the
end
couldn't
see
the
full
extent
of
Your
glory.
Nevertheless we offered
our prayers to You to the best of our ability. (42)
Our obeisances unto You, the Supreme transcendental Person equal
towards
everyone and always pure, the Supreme omnipresent Lord of eternal
goodness.'
(43)
Maitreya said: 'Thus praised
by the
Pracetâs the Lord, the protector of the surrendered souls, being pleased said: 'So be it [may your prayers
be fulfilled]', and left for His heavenly abode, but they
didn't desire His departure, for they hadn't seen enough of Him whose
prowess is never defeated. (44)
Thereafter the Pracetâs moved away from the water of the lake, but
when they saw that
the world had been covered by trees that had grown very tall as if they
wanted to obstruct the way to heaven, they became frantic. (45) Like
with the fire of
devastation at the end of time, they then in their bitterness oh
King [Vidura as a ruler over the senses], with the help of the
wind
started a fire in order to remove the trees from the earth. (46)
Seeing
that
they had
turned [almost] all the trees into ashes, the Great Father
[Brahmâ] came
to pacify the sons of Barhishmân by means of reason. (47)
The
remaining trees who were very afraid, then, on the advise of Brahmâ,
delivered their daughter to
the Pracetâs [see verse 13]. (48) By the order of
Brahmâ they all married her, named Mârishâ, from whom the son of the
Instigator [the son of Brahmâ] again took his birth because he had disrespected
the Great One [S'iva see 4: 2]. (49) He was no one but Daksha, the
one who inspired by God during the previous manvantara [period of
Manu*] called Câkshusha
[the present one being called Vaivasvata*] had put as much people on earth as he liked and was
destroyed in the course of time. (50-51)
He who
just after his birth with the brilliance of his luster outshone the
brilliance of everyone else, was for being a great expert in fruitive activities
[sacrifices] called
Daksha
['the
expert'].
He,
appointed
by
the
first
living being, by
Brahmâ, to generate and sustain all the people on earth, also
made sure
he engaged all the other founding fathers in the process.
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