1 - The praise for Vishnu and Vaishnavas 

Offering salutation to Narayana and Nara the best of the humans, the goddess Sarasvati and Vyasa, one should thereafter recite the Jaya Purana. 

Narada said- О Brahman, I have seen listened to the astonishing story of Brahma-khanda from the mouth of Brahma, thereafter with his permission I went to him and also listened to the Prakruti-khanda which was nectar-like sweet and thereafter I listened to the Ganapati Khanda which removes the cycle of birth and death for humans. But my unstable mind has not been satisfied. I Therefore, intend to listen to some special type of story relating to the birth of Krishna in the form of Krishna Janma-khanda. Therefore, you-please narrate the same to me. It removes the cycle of birth and death among the humans and bestows salvation and the devotion of the gods. It is instrumental in developed attachment and also removes the disease of involvement in the worldly pleasures. It is the seed of redemption, is like a boat in the ocean of the universe, removes the ailments of several births after bearing the result of the same, serving at the form of the medicine. It serves as the step for the achievement of lotus-like feet of lord Krishna and is the purifier of the entire universe. I happen to be your pupil having taken refuge with you. Therefore, you narrate the same to me quite extensively. At whose request did lord Krishna appear or earth in all the arhs'as. 

In which yuga did he appear and for what reason and at which place on earth? Who was Vasudeva his father and Devaki his mother?

In whose rays was he born with this illusion? And what were the deeds performed by him in which form.

O sage, (it is leant) that being afraid of Kamsa, he disappeared from the labour room and was carried to Gokula but Kamsa happen to be like a small insect for him and he could appear in a dangerous form then was he afraid of Kamsa? 

The lord of the universe, arriving in Goloka what type of deeds were performed by him in the form of a cowherds? Where did he perform the divine dance with the cowherdesses? 

Who were the cowherdesses? Who was the child Gopala? Who were Nanda and Yashoda? What merit did they earn as a result of which the lord was born as their son? Why was the virtuous Radha, the dweller of the Goloka descended in Vraja and became the beloved of Krishna? 

How could the cowherdesses achieve the lord who is difficult to get even with devotion, as their spouse. Why did the lord leave Goloka and went to Mathura? 

O Brahman, you have listened to auspicious words and also recited them; Therefore, О virtuous one, you kindly tell me that the lord who had actually incarnated on earth to rid her of the burden of the evil people, what did he actually do. 

The auspicious story of the lord is quite inaccessible and serves as a boat to cross the ocean of the universe including the flatters of the deeds and removal of the pain. It serve as a burning wood for the sins and also destroys like fire many of the sins performed in the earlier births. It serves like nectar for the ear and relieves one of all the pain. О merciful one, you kindly enlighten a devotee like me who happens to be your pupil as well as. 

Because one earns merit by performing tapas, recitation of the name of the lord, performing great charity, visiting of the holy places on earth, listening to the recitation of the Vedas, fasting, vrata, adoration of the gods and performing of various yajnas; all these do not compare even one sixteenth part the listening to the glory of the lord. 

My father has asked me to seek the divine knowledge from you. After reaching the ocean of nectar who will seek the ordinary water. 

Sri Narayana said- О purifier of the race, you are quite graceful, meritorious and quite an intelligent one. I am do realise this for purifying the universe you move around here and there on earth.

With the speaking of a few words, the mind of a person becomes clear. One knows the mind through the pupil, the wife, the daughter, the son of the daughter brother, son, grandson, speaking, influenced wife, misery, elevation, enemy and learnings. 

You are free from birth and death, are quite spotless and are the devout follower of lord Vishnu, the holder of gada. You are purifying this earth with the dust of your feet. 

You remove all the miseries the people by appearing before them. Because of this you are getting interested in listening to the story of the lord which provides prosperity. 

Whosoever listens to the story of lord Krishna or recites it all the gods, sages, ascetics and all the holy places reside there. 

After listening to the sacred story of the lord and after his completion, the noble people achieve the infallible place of the lord. Wherever the story of lord Krishna is recited the place is turned as the sacred one. The one who recites the story of lord Krishna he redeems a hundred generations. 

The one who puts a question about the same purifies his race with the putting of the question and the listener purifies his entire race together with the brothers and other relatives. After performing tapas for a hundred births one is born in the land of Bharata to enable him to be successful in his births after listening to the story of the lord. 

Performing the adoration of the lord and the reciting of his mantra, performing puja reciting of his name always, performing kirtana, listening to his virtues with complete surrender serving as a slave or performing the nine types of adoration of the lord. О Narada, performing all these acts, a person becomes successful in life. 

Such a person never has to face obstructions and his life span never gets waisted and the god of death gets terrified from him like the serpent getting testified from Garuda. 

The lord never leaves him alone and all the siddhis like anima and others, automatically reach him. 

At the command of the lord, his Sudarsana-chakra always hovers round his devotees and as such no one can do any harm toys. 

As the fire-flies do not approach the place were the fire bums in flame, similarly the messengers of Yama never approach such a person even in dream. О sage, the diseases, misfortune, grief, obstructions never approach, him and because of the fear of destruction even the death avoids him. 

The sages, the ascetics, siddhas and the gods remain always pleased with him. Because of the grace of lord Krishna, he moves about fearlessly with comfort. 

You have always been far attracted to the listening of story of lord Krishna. Truly the nature of the father is inherited by son. 

О Indra among the Brahmanas, how shall I praise you, you are mind-born son of Brahma. The race from which one is born, he inherits the intelligence of similar type. 

Your father became the creator of the universe by the grace of lotus-like feet of lord Krishna and he always remains devoted his lotus-like feet. 

The intelligent people call only such a person as the true devotee of lord Krishna who remains attracted towards the listening to the story of lord Krishna with tears flowing from his eyes in emotion and he remains engrossed in the same position always. 

He treats with action, thought and behaviour, his son, wife and the entire family as having blessed by the lord. Such a person is considered to be a true devotee of the lord. 

The one who devote himself at the lotus-like feet of lord Krishna at the lonely places as well as the sacred places, he is called the true Vaishnava. 

Those who are merciful on all the creatures, visualise the entire universe like Krishna himself. Such great intellectuals are known as a Vaishnava devotee of the lord. 

One who recites the name of the lord besides his virtues, reciting of the mantras performing japam and listens to the sacred story of the lord, he. is indeed considered as great Vaishnava. The one who offers the things desired by him to the lord with pleasure, such a devotee is considered to be best of the intellectuals. 

The one whose mind is always engrossed in the lotus-like feet of the lord throughout the day and night whether in sleeps or awake and who places the reward of the deeds performed by him in earlier births outwardly in an attached manner, he is called the tme Vaishnava. 

The one in whose ear the mantra of the lord enters through mouth of his preceptor, he is called the great Vaishnava. 

He redeems the earlier as well as the future seven generations of his parents and the maternal parents beside the relatives, the mother and mother of the maternal grandmother. 

Such a Vaishnavas redeems his wife, the daughter, brothers, pupils, son of the daughter beside the male and female servants. 

All the holy places remain anxious in order to have a look at the true Vaishnavas and with their contact all the sins of the sinners of those places get vanished. 

At which ever place a Vaishnava remains up to the time of the milking of the cows all the holy places reached that place. 

The people who die at such places are redeemed instantaneously and proceed to the abode of the lord, in the same way as a person at the time of death recites the name of the lord Krishna or a person reciting the name of the Ganga, meets with his death and achieves the abode of the lord. 

The forest of Tulasi plants, abodes of the cows, the temples of lord Krishna, Vrudavana, Haridvara and other sacred places are considered to be quite auspicious and whose dies at such places surely reaches the abode of the lord. 

The sinners are relieved of the sins after taking a bath at the sacred places. Their sins vanish with the touching of the air with the bodies of the Vaishnava. The sins cannot sustain like the dry leaves, are sure to bum in the fire flames. 

Such of the people who have a look at the devotees walking on the road, the sins accumulated by them in the past seven births get destroyed with the casting of the glance at the devotee of the lord. 

Such of the people who denounce the meritorious devotees of the lord, the merits earned by them during the past hundred births get destroyed. 

Ultimately they fall into the terrific kumbhipaka hell and remain there till the time of the sun and the moon and the insects eat them up. 

All the merits disappear at the sight of such people, such a person is purified after bowing in reverence to the sun taking bath in the Ganga. 

But the sinner is purified at the very sight of a Vaishnava because such a Vaishnava is always devoted to lord Madhusudana and all his sins get destroyed. О Brahman, a thus I have narrated to you the virtues of Vishnu and Vaishnavas now I am going to speak to you about the birth of lord Hari which you please listen.