Chapter 21:
The Reality of the Sungod Sûrya
(3) In the middle is
situated the most powerful master of all the heavenly bodies governing,
the burning sun, that by its heat heats the three worlds and lights
them by its rays. That sunglobe passing through the north, through the
south or crossing the equator, is known differently depending on its
slowness, swiftness or equality of movement. In its rising and setting
or staying up in different positions, is it, while it as ordained moves
through the different signs of the zodiac, making long days, short days
or days of equal length.
Chapter 22: The
movement of the Planets and their Considered Effects
(3) That cause, this supremely powerful original person directly seen
as Nârâyana the Supersoul of the three Vedas, who is there
for the benefit and karmic purification of all the worlds, is the cause
after which all the saintly and vedic knowing inquires; He arranges for
the twelve divisions of the year as well as, according to what was
enjoyed before, for the different qualities to the sixfold of the
seasons beginning with spring.
Chapter 23:
Description of the Stars of S'is'umâra, our Coiling Galaxy
(4) Some imagine this great
wheel of planets and stars to be a s'is'umâra [a dolphin]
and do, concentrated in yoga,
describe it as [the visible of] the Supreme Lord Vâsudeva [see
also a picture
of the celestial sky as factually seen in a telescope].
Chapter 24:
The Nether Worlds
(10) The gardens and
parks are of a great appeal to the mind and senses, giving pleasure
with their masses of flowers and fruits of which the by creepers
embraced branches of the trees nicely bent low in attraction. By the
magnificence of the variety of birds in pairs frequenting the ponds
filled with sparkling clear water agitated of jumping fish, by the
lotusflowers in those waters, the lilies, the kuvalaya and
kahlâra flowers, the blue and red lotuses and the greatest of
them with thousands of petals, and by the uninterrupted joy of the
varieties of all the sweetly vibrating birds who built their nests in
the forests is, surpassing the beauty of the residential places of the
godly, the sense enjoyment invoked.
Chapter
25: The
Glories of Lord Ananta
(6) That Ananta is for
certain the Supreme Lord, the reservoir of all transcendental qualities
and the original Godhead
who in restraint of the force of His intolerance and wrath remains for
the welfare of the humans of all worlds.
Chapter 26:
The Hellish Worlds or the Karmic Rebound
(15) And anyone who in his life for no reason
deviates from the path laid out for him in the Vedas resorting to a
system of his own making, is forced into Asi-patravana ['the
razor-sharp forest']. There he is beaten with a whip to make him, with
that in mind, run in all directions having his body on both sides cut
by the razor sharp edges of palm trees; he who killed his own religious
principles will thus suffer the result of following an atheistic path
and fall down at every step, to which he, having lost his bearings, in
the greatest pain then thinks: 'Oh how lost I am!'
