135 - Expiation for eating goose etc.

Varaha said:

1. O fair one, listen to the expiation that is to be done for approaching me wearing red garment.

2. The red garment is equivalent to menstrual flow.

3. The man who wears red garment becomes this for fifteen years.

4. I shall tell you about the expiation by which he gets purified.

5. He should take food daily once alone for seventeen days, live on air alone for three days and on water alone for one day.

6. By doing this he gets freed of the sin of this offence and then becomes dear to me.

7. I have thus told you, O Earth adorned with red garment, the expiation in this matter.

8. He who touches me in darkness without a lamp, being hasty and stupefied, courts his own downfall.

9. Such a base man brings upon himself great misery.

10. One whole life he spends as a blind man eating every- thing he comes across.

11. I shall tell you the expiation for this by which he becomes enabled to reach my world.

12.  He should blindfold his eyes for fifteen days, eat once, a lone a day for twenty days.

13. On the Dvadashi day in any one month, he should eat only once and then take water alone.

14. Then he should eat barley cooked in cow’s urine. By this expiation, he gets free from the sin.

15. Now listen to what downfall one brings for oneself by dioing me service wearing black garment.

16. For five years he remains a worm in parched grain.

17. For five years an ichneumon and for ten years a tortoise.

18. Then for fourteen years he will be a pigeon and remain near where I am installed.

19. I shall tell you about the expiation for a person for the offence of wearing black garment.

20. He should take gruel for seven days and flour balls for three days, and three such balls alone for three days.

21. He who performs like t is gets purified.

22. He never gets into samsara again but reaches my world.

23. O Earth, I shall tell you the offence a devotee does if he wears unwashed cloth, although he may be otherwise pure.

24. The person clad in such a cloth returns to samsara.

25. Such a person is born as an elephant in one life, then as a camel and afterwards as a wolf.

26. Then he is born as a jackal and then as horse.  He becomes an antelope and then an ordinary deer.

27. After seven such successive lives, he is born as a man again as my devotee, clever and offenceless and free from ego.

Earth said:

28. O lord, I have now known what befalls a person who wears unwashed cloth.

29. Be pleased to tell m the expiation to get rid ·of this offence.

Varaha said:

30. O goddess, I shall tell you about the expiation you ask for.

31. He should live on barley for three days, oil cake for three days, leaves for three days and milk for three days.

32. Rice cooked in milk for three days and air for three days.

33. In this way he can get freed from the sin of offence.

34. I shall tell you about theserious sin resulting from offering the food that is touched by dog.

35. He becomes a dog for seven lives, a jackal for seven lives, an owl for seven lives and is then born a man.

36. He then takes birth in a family of devotees, learned in the Vedas and pure-hearted.

37. Now listen to the expiation by which one crosses the ocean of samsara.

38-39. He should live on roots for three days, fruits for three days, leaves for three days, mHk for three days, curd for three days, rice cooked in milk for three d·aysand air for three days and then take the holy bath.

40. By spending twentyone days like this, he gets freed from the offence and reaches my world.

41. O fair one, I shall tell you about what befalls a person who approaches me after eating pork.

42. He wanders in the forest as a pig for ten years and becomes a hunter for fourteen years.

43. He then becomesa rat for fourteen years and a demon for nineteen years,

44. A porcupine for eight years and a carnivorous tiger for thirty years.

45. Then he enters into samsara and is born in a family of devotees.

46. Hearing these words of the Lord in detail, Earth said with folded hands:

47. I have now known thissecret by which an eater of pork. gets punfied. Whatshall one do in order not to become an animal by offence?

Varaha said:

48. He should live on cowdung for five days, small grains for seven days and liquids for seven days.

49. Food which is not caustic or saline for seven days and flour for three days.

50. Sesamum for seven days and milk for seven days.

51. With great forbearance and fortitude and free from ego, he should spend fortynine days in this manner.

52. He then becomes cleansed of all sins and doing service to me, goes to my world.

53. He who comes to me after eating goose-flesh, becomes a goose for fifteen years.

54. He becomes a shark for ten years and a pig for five years. Thus does one roll in samsara after giving offence.

55. By performing this expiation, he becomes a pure devotee free from all sins and, crossing all actions, reaches my world.

56. I shall tell you the expiation for eating goose-flesh in order to get free from the sin.

57. He should live on barley for three days, air for three years, fruit for three days.

58. Sesamum for three days, and food neither caustic nor saline for three days.

59. For fifteen days in this way expiation is to be done. The offence of eating gooseAesh gets removed and he gets the liberation he desires.