Chapter 19:
King Yayâti Achieves Liberation:
the Goats of Lust
(20) As one sees them, as one
aspires them one
should, knowing them to be
temporal, not even think of
them nor actually enjoy them nor want the prolongation of material life
and the forgetfulness about the real self associated with it; he who is
mindful about this is a self-realized soul [see also B.G. 2:
13].'
Chapter 20:
The Dynasty of Pûru up to Bharata
(8-9) One day Dushmanta
went
hunting and arrived at the âs'rama of Kanva. When he came
there he saw a woman sitting there who shone in her beauty like the
goddess of fortune. Seeing her he directly felt himself strongly drawn
towards her, such a manifest divine beauty of a woman, and surrounded
by some soldiers he addressed that best of all ladies.
Chapter 21:
The Dynasty of Bharata:
the Story of Rantideva
(3-5) Living on what fate
provided he [Rantideva] took pleasure in distributing to others
whatever grain of food he had. Always penniless he with all his family
members lived very sober and had to suffer a lot. One morning when
forty-eight days had passed and he even was deprived of drinking water,
it so happened that he received different foodstuffs, prepared with
ghee and milk, and water. With the family all shaky of suffering thirst
and hunger that very moment a brahmin guest
of Rantideva arrived who
also wanted to eat.
Chapter 22:
The Descendants of Ajamîdha:
the Pândavas and Kauravas
(21-24) Vicitravîrya
his elder brother Citrângada was by a Gandharva carrying the same
name killed. By the sage Parâs'ara from her
[Satyavatî, previous to her marriage to S'ântanu] directly
an expansion of the Lord incarnated who
was a great muni protecting the Vedas:
Krishna Dvaipâyana from whom I was born to study this
[Bhâgavatam] thoroughly. Vyâsadeva, the [partial]
incarnation of the Lord, rejected his pupils Paila and others while he
unto me, I as his son far removed from sense gratification, was of
instruction with the most confidential content of this supreme
literature.
Vicitravîrya later on married the two daughters of
Kâs'îrâja who by force were brought from the arena of
selection, but because he was too attached in his heart to the both of
Ambikâ and Ambâlikâ he died because of an infection
with
tuberculosis.
