VISHNU PURANA. - BOOK
III.
CHAP. IX.--Duties of
the religious student, householder, hermit, and mendicant.
CHAP. IX.
Duties of the
religious student, householder, hermit, and mendicant.
AURVA
continued.--"When the youth has been invested with the thread of his
caste, let him diligently prosecute the study of the Vedas, in the house of his
preceptor, with an attentive spirit, and leading a life of continence. He is to
wait upon his Guru, assiduously observant of purificatory practices, and the
Veda is to be acquired by him, whilst he is regular in the performance of
religious rites. In the morning Sandhya he is first to salute the sun; in the
evening, fire; and then to address his preceptor with respect. He must stand
when his master is standing; move when he is walking; and sit beneath him when
he is seated: he must never sit, nor walk, nor stand when his teacher does the
reverse. When desired by him, let him read the Veda attentively, placed before
his preceptor; and let him eat the food he has collected as alms, when
permitted by his teacher. Let him bathe in water which has first been used for
his preceptor's ablutions; and every morning bring fuel and water, and
whatsoever else may be required.
"When the
scriptural studies appropriate to the student have been completed, and he has
received dismissal from his Guru, let the regenerate man enter into the order
of the householder; and taking unto himself, with lawful ceremonies, house, wife,
and wealth, discharge to the best of his ability the duties of his station;
satisfying the manes with funeral cakes; the gods with oblations; guests with
hospitality; the sages with holy study; the progenitors of mankind with
progeny; the spirits with the residue of oblations; and all the world with
words of truth. A householder secures heaven by the faithful discharge of these
obligations. There are those who subsist upon alms, and lead an erratic life of
self-denial, at the end of the term during which they have kept house. They
wander over the world to see the earth, and perform their ablutions, with rites
enjoined by the Vedas, at sacred shrines: houseless, and without food, and
resting for the night at the dwelling at which they arrive in the evening. The
householder is to them a constant refuge and parent: it is his duty to give
them a welcome, and to address them with kindness; and to provide them,
whenever they come to his house, with a bed, a seat, and food. A guest disappointed
by a householder, who turns away from his door, transfers to the latter all his
own misdeeds, and bears away his religious merit. In the house of a good man,
contumely, arrogance, hypocrisy, repining, contradiction, and violence are
annihilated: and the householder who fully performs this his chief duty of
hospitality is released from every kind of bondage, and obtains the highest of
stations after death.
"When the
householder, after performing the acts incumbent on his condition, arrives at
the decline of life, let him consign his wife to the care of his sons, and go
himself to the forests. Let him there subsist upon leaves, roots, and fruit;
and suffer his hair and beard to grow, and braid the former upon his brows; and
sleep upon the ground: his dress must be made of skin or of Kas'a or Kus'a
grasses; and he must bathe thrice a day; and he must offer oblations to the
gods and to fire, and treat all that come to him with hospitality: he must beg
alms, and present food to all creatures: he must anoint himself with such
unguents as the woods afford; and in his devotional exercises he must be
endurant of heat and cold. The sage who diligently follows these rules, and
leads the life of the hermit (or Vanaprastha), consumes, like fire, all imperfections,
and conquers for himself the mansions of eternity.
"The fourth
order of men is called that of the mendicant; the circumstances of which it is
fit, oh king, that you should hear from me. Let the unimpassioned man,
relinquishing all affection for wife, children, and possessions, enter the
fourth order. Let him forego the three objects of human existence (pleasure,
wealth, and virtue), whether secular or religious, and, indifferent to friends,
be the friend of all living beings. Let him, occupied with devotion, abstain
from wrong, in act, word, or thought, to all creatures, human or brute; and
equally avoid attachment to any. Let him reside but for one night in a village,
and not more than five nights at a time in a city; and let him so abide, that
good-will, and not animosity, may be engendered. Let him, for the support of
existence, apply for alms at the houses of the three first castes, at the time
when the fires have been extinguished, and people have eaten. Let the wandering
mendicant call nothing his own, and suppress desire, anger, covetousness,
pride, and folly. The sage who gives no cause for alarm to living beings need
never apprehend any danger from them. Having deposited the sacrificial fire in
his own person, the Brahman feeds the vital flame, with the butter that is
collected as alms, through the altar of his mouth; and by means of his
spiritual fire he proceeds to his own proper abode. But the twice-born man, who
seeks for liberation, and is pure of heart, and whose mind is perfected by
self-investigation, secures the sphere of Brahma, which is tranquil, and is as
a bright flame that emits not smoke."
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III. CHAP. VIII
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III. CHAP. VII.
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III. CHAP. VI
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III. CHAP. V
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III. CHAP. IV
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III.- CHAP. III
VISHNU
PURANA. - BOOK III.- CHAP. II.
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of the Great Liberation
श्वेतकेतु और
उद्दालक, उपनिषद की कहानी, छान्द्योग्यापनिषद,
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यजुर्वेद
मंत्रा हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित, प्रथम अध्याय 1-10,
GVB THE UIVERSITY OF VEDA
उषस्ति की
कठिनाई, उपनिषद की कहानी, आपदकालेमर्यादानास्ति,
_4 -GVB the uiversity of veda
वैराग्यशतकम्, योगी
भर्तृहरिकृत, संस्कृत काव्य, हिन्दी
व्याख्या, भाग-1, gvb the university of Veda
G.V.B. THE
UNIVERSITY OF VEDA ON YOU TUBE
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