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Chapter 1: The Curse Upon the Yadu Dynasty

(13-15) The young boys of the Yadu dynasty playing [there] approached them with Sâmba the son of Jâmbavati [see also 10.68] dressed up in woman's clothes. Taking hold of their feet they, feigning humility, impudently asked: 'This black-eyed pregnant woman wishing for a son, o learned ones, too embarrassed to ask it herself, is asking you whether you, with your vision never clouded, can tell if she'll give birth to a son or not?'

(20) Amazed to see the club hearing about the infallible curse of the learned, o King, became the inhabitants of Dvârakâ distraught with fear.

Chapter 2: Mahârâja Nimi Meets the Nine Yogendras

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

(25) Seeing those pure devotees in their brilliance rivaling the sun, o King, stood the performer of the sacrifice, the brahmins, everyone, nay even the fires, in respect. (

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

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

(22) There, with the guru as one's soul and deity, should one learn the bhâgavata dharma [see 1.2: 34] by which, without deceit being faithfully of service, the Supreme Soul, the Lord bestowing His own Self, can be satisfied [**]. (23) To begin with should the mind in every way be of detachment and should one thus, as is suitable, with mercy, friendship and reverence for all living beings be of association with the saintly [compare 2: 46].

(48) Having obtained the mercy [the initiation] of the teacher of example who shows him what is handed down by tradition, should the devotee be of worship for the Supreme Personality in the particular form of his preference [see also B.G. 3.35, 7: 20].

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

(12) With them thus offering praise manifested He before their eyes [a host of] woman most wonderful in appearance, who all nicely decorated performed reverential service to the Almighty One [see also 2.7: 6].

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 wide-scale animal slaughter]; the same way is sex there for begetting children and not for the sensual pleasure [on itself]; this most pure, their own proper duty, do they [the unintelligent] not understand [see also 7.15]. (14) Those who have no knowledge of these facts very impious presumptuously considering themselves saintly, do harm to innocently trusting animals; upon leaving their bodies will those animals eat them [compare 5.25: 11-13 and 4.25: 7-8].

(34) To 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 anxiously desired by the godly, went He [as Râma, Krishna, the Buddha, as Jesus, as Caitanya etc.], of mercy for the ones caught in the animal nature, to the distant land [India, the wilderness, the forest, the desert, into sannyas] running after His desired object [His mission, His dharma, His presence as the Lord of the devotees]; to the lotus feet of You o Supreme Personality, I offer my homage. [4*]'

(36) The faithful ones [of spiritual progress] knowing of the value, praise the age of Kali pointing out it's essence that by [mere] congregational chanting as good as all one's goals are attained. (37) Indeed, for the embodied wandering around in this universe, there is no greater gain than this [sankîrtana] from which one obtains the Supreme Peace and of which the cycle of birth and death is broken [see also 2.1: 11, 3.33: 7, 8.23: 16 and 8.23 *].

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

(5) In that resplendent city rich in a great abundance saw they with their hungry eyes Lord Krishna so wonderful to behold.

(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; You, this same personality, are said to be the controlling factor of time appearing as a wheel in three, who, as the Time uninterrupted in its flow effecting the diminution of everything, is the Supreme Personality [*].

(40-41) O King, Uddhava [see also 3.2], as an ever faithful follower of Krishna hearing that what by the Lord had been said, approached, observing the fearful evil omens [see also 1.14: 2-5], in private the one Controller of the Controllers of All the Living Universe and, at His feet bowing down his head, addressed Him with folded hands.

Chapter 7: Krishna Speaks about the Avadhûta's Masters and the Pigeon so Attached

(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 honeythief, 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; taking to the shelter of the lessons derived from their activities have I in this life learnt all about the Self.

(50) A yogî accepting the material objects to his senses at the right time [to the cakra] gives them up; he doesn't get entangled in them just as the sun doesn't with its rays entering the waters [evaporating it and returning it again with the rains].

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

(10) An intelligent man should from the smallest as well as the biggest religious scriptures take the essence, just like a honey bee does with all the flowers big and small [11.7: 23, B.G. 15: 15].

(35) The well-wisher that's absolutely the most dear, the Lord and Soul He is of all embodied; by paying the price of giving myself to Him, will I for sure enjoy like Ramâ.