Chapter 7: Further questions by Vidura
(14) If one can put an
end to all kinds of misery by simply listening to the repeated
explanations about the qualities of Murarî [Krishna as the enemy
of Mura], what then again to say of the, to one's heart's desire,
serving of the dust of His lotus feet?''
Chapter 8: Manifestation of Brahmâ from
Garbhodakasâyî Vishnu
(18) 'Who am I, this one
on top of the lotus? Where did this lotus come from? Surely there is
something in the water below. Whether it sprouted of its own or not, it
must belong to something else!'
Chapter 9: Brahmâ's Prayers for Creative Energy
(12) You're never that much pleased by the big
arrangements with a lot of articles of high-class servants who are of
worship with hearts full of all kinds of desires, for You, the
variously percieved Unique One and Only Wellwisher, the Supersoul
within the living entities, are there to show all living entities Your
causeless mercy and cannot be achieved by those going for the
temporal.12)
Chapter 10: Divisions of the Creation
(14) There are nine types of creations: the three
modes of matter [to prakriti: passion, goodness and ignorance], the
three qualities to these modes [to vikriti: movement, knowledge and
inertia], and the three types of
annihllation which are then the material divisions of time [to
kâla: the ascension of humans, the extinction of animals and the
ending of the plants together with the universe].14)
Chapter 11: Division of Time Expanding from the
Atom
(15) The One [Lord of
Time] who moves distinct from all the diversity by the name of Eternal
Time [cyclic and linear time combined] and by His own energy in
different ways brings to life the seeds of creation and dissipates the
darkness of the living entities during the day, should be offered
respect with attention for all His five different types of [dynamic]
years [the solar year, the galactic year, the planetary year, the
lunation or any aniversary year], so that one thus by offerings brings
about quality in one's material existence.
Chapter 12: Creation of the Kumâras and Others
(4) To that the great
self-born sages Sanaka, Sananda, Sanâtana and Sanat-kumâra
found their existence who are free from all fruitive action and who are
of the celibate ['whose seed goes upwards'].
