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Chapter 1: The Curse Upon the Yadu Dynasty

(13-15) There they were by the young boys of the Yadu dynasty in a game approached in which Sâmba the son of Jâmbavatî [see also 10.68] had dressed up in woman's clothes. Taking hold of their feet they asked, feigning humility, impudently: 'This black-eyed pregnant woman would like to have a son o learned ones. But she is too embarrassed to ask it herself. Therefore we ask you whether you, with your vision that is never clouded, can tell whether she'll give birth to a son or not?'

Chapter 2: Mahârâja Nimi Meets
the Nine Yogendras

(3) One day Vasudeva said the following to the deva-rishi who came to visit his house. He was respectfully greeted,
worshiped with paraphernalia and comfortably seated.

(39) Hearing of the all-auspicious appearances and activities of Him with the Wheel in His Hand [see 1.9: 37] Whose associated names are chanted in this world,  one should singing without the material association [of a wife, home and children], free and unashamed move in all directions.

Chapter 3:  Liberation from Mâyâ and Karma
Knowing and Worshiping the Lord

(8) When the dissolution of the material elements is at hand [the Lord in the form of] the Time that is Without a Beginning or an End, withdraws the manifest universe consisting of the gross objects and subtle modes into the unmanifest [see also 3.29: 40-45, 3.26: 51].

(48) Having obtained the mercy [the initiation] of the teacher of example who shows him what is handed down by tradition, the devotee should be of worship for the Supreme Personality in the particular form he prefers [see also B.G. 3: 35, 7: 20].

Chapter 4: The Activities of Nara-Nârâyana
and the other Avatâras described

(6) As Nara-Nârâyana, the best of sages perfectly of peace, He was born from Mûrti the daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma [*]. Standing for the cessation of all material work He, who even lives today and whose feet are being served by the greatest of sages, sppke about and performed Himself the work to be done [see B.G. 9: 27 and also 2.7: 6, 4.1: 49-57, 5.19: 9].

(18) In His fish-incarnation [Matsya]  Vaivasvata Manu [Satyavrata], the planet earth, and the herbs were protected; in His boar-incarnation [Varâha] delivering the earth from the waters,  the demoniac son [Hiranyâksha] of Ditis was  killed; as a tortoise [Kurma] He held the mountain when the nectar was being churned upon His back and [as Vishnu] He freed the king of the elephants [Gajendra] who surrendered himself to Him in his distress because of the crocodile. (19) He delivered  the ascetic sages [the Vâlakhilyas] from [a laughing] Indra, for they offering prayers had fallen [into the water of a cow's hoofprint]; He delivered Indra from the darkness of having killed Vritrâsura; He delivered the wives of the demigods imprisoned in the asura palace [by Bhaumâsura]; as Nrisimhadeva He killed Hiranyakas'ipu, the asura king, in order to bring the saintly devotees fearlessness. (20) For the sake of the God-fearing ones He killed the daitya leaders in the battle between the gods and the demons [see 8.10], by His various appearances [the ams'a-avatâras] during the reign of each Manu He protects all the worlds and as Lord Vâmana He took on the pretext of charity the earth away from Bali to return her to the sons of Aditi. (21) As Lord Paras'urâma He rid the earth of the members of the ruling class and destroyed as the fire that He was in descending from Bhrigu, twenty-seven times over the dynasty of Haihaya. As the husband of Sîtâ [Râmacandra] He subdued  the ocean and killed  Ten-head [Râvana] along with the soldiers of Lankâ. When one tells the stories about the glories of Him who is always victorious, the contamination of the entire world is annihilated. (22) The Unborn Lord [as Krishna] taking His birth in the Yadu-dynasty, will, in order to diminish the burden of the earth, perform deeds even difficult for the godly to perform; as [the Buddha] He will by speculative arguments bewilder the ones unfit to perform the vedic sacrifices and at the end of Kali-yuga He [as Lord Kalki] will put an end to all the low-class rulers.

Chapter 5: Nârada Concludes His
Teachings to Vasudeva

(13) It is enjoined that wine should be taken by smelling it and that likewise an animal should be killed as prescribed and not in wanton violence [with large-scale animal slaughter]; the same way sexual intercourse is there for conquering [the urges of procreation, like with defecating] and not so much for sensual pleasure [B.G. 7: 11]; for this purest notion of one's proper duty they [the unintelligent] have no understanding [see also 7.15].

(34) O Supreme Personality let me pay homage to the lotus feet of You who upon the words of a brahmin [like Akrûra, S'rî Advaita or John the Babtist], as the Most Religious One abandoning the so hard to forsake opulence of S'rî that is so anxiously desired by the godly, being of mercy for the ones who are caught in animal nature, [as Râma, Krishna, the Buddha, as Jesus, as Caitanya etc.] went to the distant land [India, the wilderness, the forest, the desert, into sannyâsa] in pursuance of the object of Your desire [Your mission, Your dharma, Your presence as the Lord of the devotees, 4*].'

Chapter 6: Retirement on the Advise of Brahmâ
and Uddhava Addressed in Private

(15) You are the cause of this creation, maintenance and annihilation, the cause of the unseen, the individual soul and the greater of the manifest reality. They say that You, this very same personality, are the factor of time controlling all who appears as a threefold wheel, that You are the Supreme Personality who in the form of Time uninterrupted in Your flow effects the diminution of everything [*].

Chapter 7: Krishna Speaks about the Masters of the Avadhûta
and the Pigeon of Attachment

(33-35) The earth, the air, the sky, the water, the fire, the moon; the sun, the pigeon, the python, the sea, the moth, the honeybee; the elephant, the honey thief, the deer, the fish, the prostitute [Pingalâ], the osprey; the child, the girl, the arrow-maker, the serpent, the spider and the wasp. These are my twenty-four spiritual masters o King. From studying their actions I in this life have learned everything about the Self.

Chapter 8: What One Learns from Nature
and the Story of Pingalâ

(7) Seeing a woman he who didn't conquer his senses, tempted by that seductive illusory energy of God, blindly falls down into the darkness, just like a moth falls into the fire. (8) Upon seeing the clothing, golden ornaments and so on of the women the way it is arranged by mâyâ, a person lacking in discrimination with his desire for sense-gratification will feel aroused by lusty desires and no doubt, the way a moth is destroyed, loose his spiritual insight [B.G. 2: 62-63].

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