78 - Discourse to Nanda on Spiritualism 

Nanda said- О Krishna, О lord of the universe, I have listened to your discourse on good dreams quite carefully which is the gist of the Vedas and is a part of worldly practices. 

O son, by witnessing dreams and by performing deeds, one earns sins. I would like to listen to them from you at present; you kindly tell me about the same. 

Thus, the followers of the Vedas listen to the provisions of the Vedas and other scriptures, with devotion. Similarly, the people of the world remain anxious to listen to your nectar-like words because you happen to be the creator of the Vedas. The Vedic people, the intellectuals, Brahma and other gods besides the sages also preserve them. 

Therefore, О son, whatever nectar-like words I have listened to from your lotus-like mouth, have made my body burning with the fire of separation, quite cool and calm, your lotus-like feet fulfil all the desires and even Brahma and other gods are unable to have a look at your lotus-like feet even in dream. Fortunately, I am looking at them with my own eyes. 

After this where can sinners like me have a glance at your lotus-like feet? My body is filled with refuse and urine and is entangled and is bound with the fetters of my deeds. О son, when shall the day come when I would be able to talk again to a person like you, who are the lord of the Brahma and other gods. 

Therefore, О merciful one, О son, you kindly forgive me for the same. The gods Brahma, Shiva, Sesha, the sages, always meditate upon your lotus like feet and Sarasvati and shruti are unable to recite your glory becoming dumb before you. 

Thus, speaking Nanda who was deprived of pleasure and filled with grief, because of the separation from his son fainted while crying. Finding him in such a condition Vishnu felt panicky and started convincing him variously, bestowing the extremely spiritual knowledge on him.

Sri Krishna said- О Nanda, О best of the kings, best of the lord of Vraja, you regain consciousness and listen to my words which are beneficial and spiritual. This spiritual knowledge is even beyond the reach of the great yogis, quite secretive in the Vedas and other scriptures, which is being bestowed by me on you. 

О Nanda, you delightfully listen to it with apt attention and follow it, because by doing so one is relieved of birth, death, old age and ailments. Therefore, О lord of Vraja, О great king, be composed and receiving the divine knowledge be relieved of grief and illusion and blissfully move to Vraja. 

This entire movable and immovable universe is of no consequence like a water bubble, it is like a morning dream and leads only to illusion. The human body of five elements which is the cause of the building of the universe, also falls and is perishable. A human considers the illusion as truthful and in all his actions he is overpowered by desire anger, greed and illusion. He is over-powered by sleep, drowsiness, hunger, thirst, forgiveness, devotion, mercy, shyness, peace, belief, support, satisfaction and other elements. He’s involved in the worldly affairs with his mind, intelligence, consciousness, breathing, knowledge, soul, the lord of all and the supreme knowledge. Brahma is my mind, the eternal Prakruti is the wisdom, Vishnu is the breathing and consciousness is the great goddess Lakshmi. Till such time as I remain in the body everything moves. When I leave the body, the same is deserted by everyone; without me the body falls in no time. All the five elements of the body that is earth, water, fire, wind and sky are merged in the five elements. 

О father, that is why the whole universe is the cause of illusion alone, in which the wise people do not attract grief and the intellectuals never indulge in the same. All the shaktis like sleep, etc., are the rays of Prakruti. Desire, anger, greed, illusion and arrogance are the amsha of adharma or sin. 

The amshas of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are reflected with sattva, tamas and rajas. The all knowledgeable Shiva and myself whom the form of the soul, when I enter into the Prakruti then I become saguna. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are all saguna, in other words in these forms, I take up the task of reconstruction. Dharma, Sesha, Surya, the moon are all my amshas similarly all the sages, the ascetics are also part of my amshas. I pervade in all the bodies in the worlds but I never get involved in any one of them. My devotee always gets relieved of birth, death and old age. 

He becomes the great Siddha, virtuous, glorious, intellectual, poetic, achieves such four types of siddhis and can destroy the deeds. I always remain present in my devotees; my devotees do not want anything else. He is engaged in achieving siddhis which are known to have twenty-two types. 

О Nanda, you listen to me about them from my mouth and receive the Siddhamantra. The names of the siddhis are anima, Laghima, Prapti, Prakamya, Mahima, Ishitva, Vashitva, Kamavasayita, Dura-shravana, Parakaya-pravesha, Manoyayitva, Sarvajnatva, Agnistambhana, Jalastambhana, Ciranjivitva, Vayustambha, controlling of hunger, thirst and sleep, a Vaksiddhi, bringing up the dead body, the creation, pranayama. The relevant siddha mantra is

This mantra is quite secretive and is like kalpavruksha which has been prescribed in the Samaveda and provides all success to the siddhas. 

All these yogis, the ascetics and the gods achieve success by reciting the mantras, by consuming the havisya food in the Narayana-kshetra; by reciting this mantra for a hundred lakhs of times, the intellectuals meet with success. О father, you go to Kasi and recite this mantra over the Manikarnika ghata. 

I am now talking to you about Narayana-kshetra which you may please listen to. Up to the width of four hands of the flowing water in the river, the place has been described as Narayana-kshetra, only Narayana happens to be the lord of this place and none else. 

A person who dies at that place, achieves salvation and divine knowledge. If anyone recites the mantras even without performing vrata, he is relieved of the cycle of birth and death; there is no doubt about it. 

О lord of Vraja, you go to Vraja and purify the place. О father, now I am telling you about the person by looking at whom one earns a sin. You please listen to me. The bad dream is the result of sinful ways and is the result of many of our actions. One earns sins by looking at the killer of a cow, the killer of a Brahmana, an ungrateful person, a wicked person, a destroyer of the images of the gods, the killer of the parents, a betrayer of the faith, a giver of false witness, those who extend ill treatment to beggars, those who performed yajnas in villages, the one who snatches away the livelihood of the gods and the Brahmanas, the one who cuts the pipala tree, the one who denounces Shiva and Vishnu, a person without Diksha, the Brahmana who falls in evil ways and those who are deprived of the Sandhya’s thrice a day. By looking at the pujari of a temple, the driver of the bulls, the store-keeper of the Shudras, the one who bums the dead bodies of the Shudras and takes the food of shraddha with them, a woman having no son or a husband, women with severed nose, those who denounce Brahmanas and the gods, a lady who is not devoted to Vishnu or her husband, a widow Shudra woman, a Chandala woman, a loose-woman and those who always remain in anger, the wicked person, the in debtors, varnashankaras, the thieves, those who always speak untruth, these who come to take refuge, the thieves of meat, a Brahmana having a Shudra as his wife, a Shudra cohabiting with a Brahmana woman, the money lender, the wicked person who cohabits with a Brahmana woman and a person who is denounced by all the varnas. 

The eighteen types of women have been described as inaccessible. They include the mother, the step-mother, the mother-in-law, wife of the teacher, wife of son, wife of the brother, sister of the mother, sister of the father, wife of the nephew, brother's wife, newly wedded wife of others, aunt, the women in period, mother of the father and the mother of the mother. О lord of Vraja, the list of these has been provided in the Samaveda which is fully supported by the people of wisdom. If anyone looks at them with side glances or touches them with evil intentions, he earns the sin of Brahmahatya. 

In case one accidentally looks at them with an evil eye, he should at once worship Hari. Whosoever looks at them with passionate intentions, always earns denouncement. 

О lord of Vraja, therefore, the wise people never cast an evil eye on them. The intellectuals never look at the sun and the moon when they are eclipsed by Rahu. 

In case the son is in the house of the birth, the eighth house, the seventh house, the twelfth house, ninth house and tenth house and in that case one should not look at the sun. In case the moon is in the constellation of birth and the fourth and eighth house, then one should not look at the moon. The moon rising in the bright fort-night in the month of Bhadrapada is known as Nastachandra. The intellectuals should not look at it.

О Nanda, in case someone intentionally looks at the moon, he earns a blemish like the kidnapping of Tara by moon; in case anyone looks at it, unconsciously then one should drink the sanctified water. 

By doing so, a person is purified and is relieved of all sins on earth. The mantra which purifies the water is like this: 

О prince, don't cry, you take this Syamantaka gem because of which a lion had killed Prasena and the lion was killed by Jambavan. The water sanctified by this mantra should always be consumed. I have thus spoken all the essential things to you. What more shall I speak.