O Chaste One! Without serving the Gods, the Karma ties can never be severed. The pure acts are the seeds of purities and the impure acts lead to impure seeds. If any Brāhmaṇa goes to any unchaste woman and eats her food, he will have to go ultimately to the Kālasūtra hell. There he lives for one hundred years when

O Bhagavān! What is the size of the several Kuṇḍas or hells that Thou hast just now enumerated? How do the sinners dwell there? When a man departs, his body is reduced to ashes. Then of what sort is that other body by which the sinners enjoy the effects of their Karmas and why do not those bodies get destroyed

Next follows the Tapta Kuṇḍa. It is filled with hot water and full of rapacious animals. The sinners there are severely beaten by My messengers and they are always crying out very loudly, which is being echoed and re-echoed all around terribly. It extends for one mile. This Kuṇḍa is filled with hot salt water and the abode of many

Sāvitrī said: “O Lord! Give me devotion to the Devī to that Ādya Śaktī Bhagavatī Mahā Māye, Parameśvarī Mayī that is the Essence of all essences, the Door of final liberation to human beings, and the Cause of delivering them from hells, that is the Root of all Dharmas that lead to Mukti, that destroys all inauspiciousness, that takes away

In the beginning of the Prākriti Creation, from the left side of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Spirit, appeared in the Rāsa Maṇḍalam (the Figure Dance) a Devī. She looked exceedingly handsome, of a dark blue colour, of spacious hips, of thin waist, and with high breast, looking twelve years old, of steady youth, of a colour of white Champaka flower and

The Devas, then with the Daityas churned the Kṣīroda Ocean and, out of that, Mahā Lakṣmī appeared. Viṣṇu looked on Her. Her joy knew no bounds. She smiling, granted boons to the Devas and then offered a garland of flowers on the neck of Nārāyaṇa (as a symbol of marriage celebrated).

Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa, resides in this great holy temple of our this physical body controlling the hearts of all. At whatever moment, Śrī Nārāyaṇa quits this temple-body, at that moment this body becomes dead. I myself am the mind; Śankara is the Knowledge, Viṣṇu is the vital breaths, Bhagavatī Durgā is the intelligence (Buddhi), sleep, etc., the powers of Prakriti;

When Indra attained success in this Mantra, there appeared before him Mahā Lakṣmī, seated in the celestial car, decked with excellent gems and jewels. The Great Halo, coming out of Her body made manifest the earth with seven islands. Her colour was white like the white champaka flower and Her whole body was decked with ornaments.

Brahmā then, by the command of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, began to meditate on Prakriti, worship Her and chant hymns to Her. Then from the part of Prakriti, an all- powerful Devī appeared. She was very beautiful, Śyāma (of a blue colour) and very lovely. She looked always gracious with smile in Her face; it seemed that She was always ready to