Prohibition regarding and Fruit of Vishnu Worship

Vyasa said:

1-10. A devotee of Vishnu should devoutly worship the immutable Vishnu along with the great Lakshmi in Margasirsa, O best brahmana. So also he should not worship Vishnu in a Mleccha region, in the house of a fallen person, or at a place full of bad odour, O best brahmana. He should not worship Vishnu near the heretics or great sinners, so also near those who tell lies. He should not worship Vishnu near those who are crying, who are quarrelling or at the place of those who are ridiculing. He should not worship Vishnu at the place of those who are engaged in accepting gifts, so also in the house of misers and of those who are greedy of others' wealth. So also he should not worship Vishnu in the house of those whose nature is deceitful. O brahmana, being highly devoted, he should, giving up attention to any other thing, be intent on meditating upon Vishnu at the time of worshipping Vishnu. He should not worship Vishnu, when there is loud wailing, when there are sighs, when there is a doubt, or a talk with the heretics, O best brahmana. Visrm receives that flower which is offered even into ash by him whose mind is concentrated, to the god of gods, the lord of the world. O brahmana, the lord does not receive that flower which a man fatigued due to hundreds of thoughts, offers even on the discs of the (salagrama) stones. With an undivided mind a wise man should worship Vishnu.

11. That act which is done with a confused mind is fruitless. Every act depends upon the mind. The three worlds depend upon the mind.

12-16a. Therefore, after making his mind steady he should worship Lakshmi's lord. O best brahmana, he who worships at one place, but whose mind is somewhere else, would not get the fruit of his act even after hundreds of crores of kalpas. He who has become (bodily) pure with effort, and engaged in Vishnu's worship, is taken to be like a candala if he is without the purity of mind. O brahmana, that penance which is duly performed for a long time, but without devotion, would all be fruitless, and would only purify the body. That gold, (even) as much as the measure of Meru (mountain), which is given without devotion to a brahmana with family for (securing) beatitude leads to the loss of the desired object.

16b-25a. Therefore, a devotee with a concentrated mind and full of faith and devotion, should give in his house vegetables with a dwelling etc. to Vishnu. O best brahmana, he who offers a very ripe, divine, orange to Vishnu is honoured by us. A devotee should devoutly and with effort give a new thing dear to Vishnu, to him, the enemy of Mura, in the month of Margaslrsa. The devotee of Vishnu should bathe with divine sugarcane juice (the image of) god Vishnu, the lord shrl Krishna, who grants boons, when the month of Pausa has come. O best brahmana, he who bathes (the image of) Vishnu with sugarcane juice, enjoys all pleasures here (i.e. in this world) and after death goes to the Iksu-sagara. So also he who would offer the sugarcane as an eatable to Vishnu, the god of gods, obtains the same fruit. What is the use of uttering many (more) words? A man by giving rice parched and flattened along with milk or with curd to Vishnu, would obtain all desired objects. Having removed the old garment (from Vishnu's image), he should offer him a new (piece of) cloth for keeping off cold, O brahmana, when the Sun passes from one Zodiacal sign to another. In Pausa (when he is in the Pusya asterism), a man desiring liberation should give to Vishriu with Lakshmi, a seat often colours.

25b-31a. O dear, I (shall) tell (you) the fruit of the religious merit of him who, after worshipping the lord of Lakshmi, would blow a conch. Listen to it. Being freed from all sins like illicit intercourse, he in the end goes to Vishnu's city and rejoices with him. O best brahmana, I (shall) tell you about the religious merit of him who sounds at the time of (Vishnu's) worship a bell marked with Garuda. He, being freed from all sins like eating articles that are prohibited, goes after getting into a charming chariot to Vishnu's abode. Having enjoyed there all desired objects for a period of hundreds of crores of kalpas, he again comes to (i.e. is born on) the earth as a best brahmana, well-versed in the four Vedas. Having enjoyed there all desired objects for a period of hundreds of crores of kalpas, he again goes to Vishnu's city and obtains excellent liberation.

31b-36a. That man who plays upon the lute at the time of worship of the lord, would become the chief among the learned in every existence. The lord, being pleased with him who beats a tabor at the time of the worship of the enemy of Kaitabha, gives him immense fruit. Listen to the religious merit of(i.e. gotby)him who beats a small drum shaped like an hourglass, a small drum, or who sounds sweet cymbals, or beats a tabor, a large kettledrum, a large drum, a sindhuvaraka (? ), a gong of bell-metal, or claps, or plays upon a lute, at the time of (Vishnu's) worship; being freed from sins like theft, he goes to the abode of the Disc-holder (i.e. Vishnu).

36b-37. Getting the highest knowledge (there), he is freed there only. O best brahmana, I tell (you) about the religious merit of him who would produce sweet sound at the time of the worship of the lord of the world, or would play on the windinstrument. With crores and crores (members) of his family, he goes to Vishnu's abode.

38-42. Having obtained knowledge, he would obtain inexhaustible liberation there only. O best brahmana, he who devoutly dances in the temple of Vishnu, goes to that highest position of Vishnu. He who devoutly sings songs in front (of the image) of Vishnu, becomes a king in cities of gandharvas. With that devotee of Vishnu, who devoutly praises the lord of the world with hymns of praise, the lord is pleased and gives him all his desired objects. O brahmana sage, that Vishnu soon favours him who would worship Vishnu in this manner every month.

43. All those men who desire to cross this mundane ocean which is very deep and which gives all afflictions, should worship the pair of the lotus-like feet of the Supreme Spirit, that is charming and served by the hosts of gods.

 

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