VISHNU PURANA. - BOOK
III. CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VII.--By what
means men are exempted from the authority of Yama, as narrated by Bhishma to
Nakula. Dialogue between Yama and one of his attendants. Worshippers of Vishnu
not subject to Yama. How they are to be known.
By what means men
are exempted from the authority of Yama, as narrated by Bhishma to Nakula.
Dialogue between Yama and one of his attendants. Worshippers of Vishnu not
subject to Yama. How they are to be known.
MAITREYA.--You have
indeed related to me, most excellent Brahman, all that I asked of you; but I am
desirous to hear one thing which you have not touched on. This universe,
composed of seven zones, with its seven subterrestrial regions, and seven
spheres--this whole egg of Brahma.--is every where swarming with living
creatures, large or small, with smaller and smallest, and larger and largest;
so that there is not the eighth part of an inch in which they do not abound.
Now all these are captives in the chains of acts, and at the end of their
existence become slaves to the power of Yama, by whom they are sentenced to
painful punishments. Released from these inflictions, they are again born in
the condition of gods, men, or the like: and thus living beings, as the
S'astras apprise us, perpetually revolve. Now the question I have to ask, and
which you are so well able to answer, is, by what acts men may free themselves
from subjection to Yama?
PARAS'ARA.--This
question, excellent Muni, was once asked by Nakula of his grandfather Bhishma;
and I will repeat to you the reply made by the latter.
Bhishma said to the
prince, "There formerly came on a visit to me a friend of mine, a Brahman,
from the Kalinga country, who told me that he had once proposed this question
to a holy Muni, who retained the recollection of his former births, and by whom
what was, and what will be, was accurately told. Being importuned by me, who
placed implicit faith in his words, to repeat what that pious personage had
imparted to him, he at last communicated it to me; and what he related I have
never met with elsewhere.
"Having, then,
on one occasion, put to him the same question which you have asked, the Kalinga
Brahman recalled the story that had been told him by the Muni--the great
mystery that had been revealed to him by the pious sage, who remembered his
former existence--a dialogue that occurred between Yama and one of his
ministers.
"Yama beholding
one of his servants with his noose in his hand, whispered to him, and said,
'Keep clear of the worshippers of Madhusudana. I am the lord of all men, the
Vaishnavas excepted. I was appointed by Brahma, who is reverenced by all the
immortals, to restrain mankind, and regulate the consequences of good and evil
in the universe. But be who obeys Hari, as his spiritual guide, is here
independent of me; for Vishnu is of power to govern and control me. As gold is
one substance still, however diversified as bracelets, tiaras, or earrings, so
Hari is one and the same, although modified in the forms of gods, animals, and
man. As the drops of water, raised by wind from the earth, sink into the earth
again when the wind subsides, so the varieties of gods, men, and animals, which
have been detached by the agitation of the qualities, are reunited, when that
disturbance ceases, with the eternal. He who through holy knowledge diligently
adores the lotus foot of that Hari, who is reverenced by the gods, is released
from all the bonds of sin; and you must avoid him as you would avoid fire fed
with oil.'
"Having heard
these injunctions of Yama, the messenger addressed the lord of righteousness,
and said, 'Tell me, master, how am I to distinguish the worshipper of Hari, who
is the protector of all beings?' Yama replied, 'You are to consider the
worshipper of Vishnu, him who never deviates from the duties prescribed to his
caste; who looks with equal indifference upon friend or enemy; who takes,;
nothing (that is not his own), nor injures any being. Know that person of
unblemished mind to be a worshipper of Vishnu. Know him to be a devout worshipper
of Hari, who has placed Janarddana in his pure mind, which has been freed from
fascination, and whose soul is undefiled by the soil of the Kali age. Know that
excellent man to be a worshipper of Vishnu, who, looking upon gold in secret,
holds that which is another's wealth but as grass, and devotes all his thoughts
to the lord. Pure is he as a mountain of clear crystal; for how can Vishnu
abide in the hearts of men with malice and envy, and other evil passions? the
glowing heat of fire abides not in a cluster of the cooling rays of the moon.
He who lives pure in thought, free from malice, contented, leading a holy life,
feeling tenderness for all creatures, speaking wisely and kindly, humble and
sincere, has Vasudeva ever present in his heart. As the young Sal-tree by its
beauty declares the excellence of the juices which it has imbibed from the
earth, so when the eternal has taken up his abode in the bosom of any one, that
man is lovely amidst the beings of this world. Depart, my servant, quickly from
those men whose sins have been dispersed by moral and religious merit, whose
minds are daily dedicated to the imperceptible deity, and who are exempt from
pride, uncharitableness, and malice. In the heart in which the divine Hari, who
is without beginning or end, abides, armed with a sword, a shell, and a mace,
sin cannot remain; for it cannot coexist with that which destroys it, as
darkness cannot continue in the world when the sun is shining. The eternal
makes not his abode in the heart of that man who covets another's wealth, who
injures living creatures, who speaks harshness and untruth, who is proud of his
iniquity, and whose mind is evil. Janarddana occupies not his thoughts who
envies another's prosperity, who calumniates the virtuous, who never sacrifices
nor bestows gifts upon the pious, who is blinded by the property of darkness.
That vile wretch is no worshipper of Vishnu, who through avarice is unkind to
his nearest friends and relations, to his wife, children, parents, and dependants.
The brute-like man whose thoughts are evil, who is addicted to unrighteous
acts, who ever seeks the society of the wicked, and suffers no day to pass
without the perpetration of crime, is no worshipper of Vasudeva. Do you proceed
afar off from those in whose hearts Ananta is enshrined; from him whose
sanctified understanding conceives the supreme male and ruler, Vasudeva, as one
with his votary, and with all this world. Avoid those holy persons who are
constantly invoking the lotus-eyed Vasudeva, Vishnu, the supporter of the
earth, the immortal wielder of the discus and the shell, the asylum of the
world. Come not into the sight of him in whose heart the imperishable soul
resides, for he is defended from my power by the discus of his deity: he is
designed for another world (for the heaven of Vishnu).'
"'Such,' said
the Kalinga Brahman, 'were the instructions communicated by the deity of
justice, the son of the sun, to his servants, as they were repeated to me by
that holy personage, and as I have related them to you, chief of the house of
Kuru' (Bhishma). So also, Nakula, I have faithfully communicated to you all I
heard from my pious friend, when he came from his country of Kalinga to visit
me. I have thus explained to you, as was fitting, that there is no protection
in the ocean of the world except Vishnu; and that the servants and ministers of
Yama, the king of the dead himself, and his tortures, are all unavailing
against one who places his reliance on that divinity."
I have thus, resumed
Paras'ara, related to you what you wished to hear, and what was said by the son
of Vivaswat. What else do you wish to hear?
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