Narada Purana — Uttara Bhaga — Chapter 4
NarP 2 4.1
यम उवाच शृणु मे वचनं नाथ पितामह पितामह । मरणादधिकं देव यत्प्रतापस्य खण्डनम्
yama uvāca śṛṇu me vacanaṃ nātha pitāmaha pitāmaha / maraṇādadhikaṃ deva yatpratāpasya khaṇḍanam
Yama said: Hear my words, O lord, Grandfather, Grandfather: worse than death, O god, is the shattering of one's dignity.
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NarP 2 4.2
निस्पृहो नाचरेद्यस्तु नियोगं पद्मसंभव । अन्धकूपे निपतति स चाशु नरके ध्रुवम्
nispṛho nācaredyastu niyogaṃ padmasaṃbhava / andhakūpe nipatati sa cāśu narake dhruvam
But he who, being without desire (for reward), does not carry out the commission, O lotus-born one — he swiftly falls into a blind well, and certainly into hell.
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NarP 2 4.3
नियोगी न नियोगं यः करोति कमलासन । प्रभोर्वित्तं समश्नाति स भवेत्काष्ठकीटकः
niyogī na niyogaṃ yaḥ karoti kamalāsana / prabhorvittaṃ samaśnāti sa bhavetkāṣṭhakīṭakaḥ
The officer who does not do the duty assigned, O lotus-seated one, and (yet) consumes his master's wealth — he becomes a wood-worm.
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NarP 2 4.4
यो ऽश्नाति लोभाद्वित्तानि प्रजाभ्यो वा महीपतेः । नियोगी नरकं याति यावत्कल्पशतत्रयम्
yo 'śnāti lobhādvittāni prajābhyo vā mahīpateḥ / niyogī narakaṃ yāti yāvatkalpaśatatrayam
The officer who out of greed devours wealth (taken) from the subjects or from the king goes to hell for as long as three hundred kalpas.
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NarP 2 4.5
आत्मकार्यपरो यस्तु स्वामिनं च विलुंपति । भवेद्वेश्मनि मन्दात्मा आखुः कल्पशतत्रयम्
ātmakāryaparo yastu svāminaṃ ca viluṃpati / bhavedveśmani mandātmā ākhuḥ kalpaśatatrayam
But he who is intent on his own business and plunders his master — that dull-minded one becomes a mouse in the house for three hundred kalpas.
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NarP 2 4.6
नियोगी यस्तु वै भूत्वा आत्मवेश्मनि भोक्ष्यति । भृत्यान्वै कर्मकरणे राज्ञो मार्जारतां व्रजेत्
niyogī yastu vai bhūtvā ātmaveśmani bhokṣyati / bhṛtyānvai karmakaraṇe rājño mārjāratāṃ vrajet
And he who, having become an officer, will consume (the revenue) in his own house, (and uses) the king's servants for doing his own work, goes to the state of a cat.
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NarP 2 4.7
सो ऽहं देव तवादेशात् प्रजा धर्मेण शासयन् । पुण्येन पुण्यकर्तारं पापं पापेन कर्मणा
so 'haṃ deva tavādeśāt prajā dharmeṇa śāsayan / puṇyena puṇyakartāraṃ pāpaṃ pāpena karmaṇā
Such am I, O god: by your command, ruling the subjects according to dharma — (rewarding) the doer of merit with merit, and the sinner with a sinful deed('s fruit).
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NarP 2 4.8
सम्यग्विचार्य मुनिभिर्घर्मशास्त्रादिभिर्विभो । कल्पादौ वर्तमानस्य यावद्यावद्दिनं तव
samyagvicārya munibhirgharmaśāstrādibhirvibho / kalpādau vartamānasya yāvadyāvaddinaṃ tava
having judged rightly, O lord, by means of the sages and the treatises on dharma and the rest, from the beginning of the kalpa, as long as your day lasts.
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NarP 2 4.9
सो ऽहं त्वदीयेन विभो नियोगेनैव शक्नुयाम् । कर्तुं रुक्माङ्गदेनाद्य पराभूतो हि भूभुजा
so 'haṃ tvadīyena vibho niyogenaiva śaknuyām / kartuṃ rukmāṅgadenādya parābhūto hi bhūbhujā
Such am I, O lord: by your own commission alone would I be able to act — (yet) today I have been overcome by King Rukmāṅgada.
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NarP 2 4.10
भयाद्यस्य जगन्नाथ पृथिवी सागरांबरा । न भुङ्क्ते वासरे विष्णोः सर्वपापप्रणाशने
bhayādyasya jagannātha pṛthivī sāgarāṃbarā / na bhuṅkte vāsare viṣṇoḥ sarvapāpapraṇāśane
Through fear of him, O Lord of the world, the earth with the ocean for its garment does not eat on Viṣṇu's day, the destroyer of all sins.
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NarP 2 4.11
विहाय सर्वधर्मांस्तु विहाय पितृपूजनम् । विहाय देवपूजां च तीर्थस्नानादिकस्त्रियाम्
vihāya sarvadharmāṃstu vihāya pitṛpūjanam / vihāya devapūjāṃ ca tīrthasnānādikastriyām
Abandoning all religious duties, abandoning the worship of the fathers, abandoning also the worship of the gods, and (abandoning) bathing at holy places and the rest, and women —
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NarP 2 4.12
योगसांख्यावुभौ त्यक्त्वा ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं च मानद । त्यक्त्वा स्वाध्यायहोमांश्च कृत्वा पापानि भूरिशः
yogasāṃkhyāvubhau tyaktvā jñānaṃ jñeyaṃ ca mānada / tyaktvā svādhyāyahomāṃśca kṛtvā pāpāni bhūriśaḥ
having given up both Yoga and Sāṃkhya, and knowledge and the knowable, O giver of honour, having given up private recitation and oblations, and having committed sins in abundance —
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NarP 2 4.13
प्रयान्ति वैष्णवं लोकमुपोष्य हरिवासरम् । मनुजाः पितृभिः सार्द्धं तथैव च पितामहैः
prayānti vaiṣṇavaṃ lokamupoṣya harivāsaram / manujāḥ pitṛbhiḥ sārddhaṃ tathaiva ca pitāmahaiḥ
men go to Viṣṇu's world by fasting on Hari's day, together with their fathers and likewise with their grandfathers.
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NarP 2 4.14
तेषामपीह पितरः पितॄणां पितरस्तथा । तथा मातामहा यान्ति मातुर्ये जनकादयः
teṣāmapīha pitaraḥ pitṝṇāṃ pitarastathā / tathā mātāmahā yānti māturye janakādayaḥ
And the fathers of these too, and likewise the fathers of those fathers, and so the maternal grandfathers go, and on the mother's side the begetters and the rest.
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NarP 2 4.15
तेषामपि जनेतारो जनितॄणां हि पूर्वजाः । एतद्दुःखं पुनर्देव मम मर्मविभेदनम्
teṣāmapi janetāro janitṝṇāṃ hi pūrvajāḥ / etadduḥkhaṃ punardeva mama marmavibhedanam
And the begetters of those too, and indeed the ancestors of the begetters — this again, O god, is a grief that splits my vitals.
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NarP 2 4.16
प्रियायाः पितरो यान्ति मार्जयित्वा लिपिं मम । पितॄणां बीजतो यस्माद्धात्र्या कुक्षौ धृतो यतः
priyāyāḥ pitaro yānti mārjayitvā lipiṃ mama / pitṝṇāṃ bījato yasmāddhātryā kukṣau dhṛto yataḥ
The fathers of the wife go (there too), wiping out my record — whereas (a man belongs) to the fathers by the seed, since he was carried in the womb by the mother.
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NarP 2 4.17
यदेकः कुरुते कर्म तदेकेनैव भुज्यते । ततो ऽन्यस्य कृतं ब्रह्मन्बीजं धात्रीसमुद्भवम्
yadekaḥ kurute karma tadekenaiva bhujyate / tato 'nyasya kṛtaṃ brahmanbījaṃ dhātrīsamudbhavam
Whatever deed one person does is enjoyed by that one alone; therefore, O Brahmā, what has been done (belongs) to another — the seed and what arises from the mother.
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NarP 2 4.18
तारयेत्स उभौ पक्षौ यत्पिण्डो यस्य विग्रहः । न भार्याया भवेद्वीजं न भार्या कुक्षिधारिणी
tārayetsa ubhau pakṣau yatpiṇḍo yasya vigrahaḥ / na bhāryāyā bhavedvījaṃ na bhāryā kukṣidhāriṇī
He would rescue both lines (paternal and maternal), whose the piṇḍa is, whose the body is. The seed would not be the wife's, nor is the wife the bearer of the womb.
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NarP 2 4.19
कथं तस्या जगन्नाथ पक्षो याति परं पदम् । जामातुः पुण्यमाहात्म्यत्तिन मे शिरसो रुजा
kathaṃ tasyā jagannātha pakṣo yāti paraṃ padam / jāmātuḥ puṇyamāhātmyattina me śiraso rujā
How, O Lord of the world, does her line go to the highest state? By the power of the son-in-law's merit — is there not an aching in my head at that!
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NarP 2 4.20
न मे प्रयोजनं देव नियोगेनेदृशेन वै । एकादश्युपवासी यः स मां त्यक्त्वा व्रजेद्धरिम्
na me prayojanaṃ deva niyogenedṛśena vai / ekādaśyupavāsī yaḥ sa māṃ tyaktvā vrajeddharim
I have no use, O god, for a commission of this kind: he who fasts on the eleventh day, abandoning me, goes to Hari.
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NarP 2 4.21
कुलत्रयं समुद्धृत्य आत्मना सह पद्मज । त्यक्त्वा तु मामकं मार्गं प्रयाति हरिमन्दिरम्
kulatrayaṃ samuddhṛtya ātmanā saha padmaja / tyaktvā tu māmakaṃ mārgaṃ prayāti harimandiram
Having raised up three generations of his family along with himself, O lotus-born one, and forsaking my road, he goes to Hari's abode.
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NarP 2 4.22
न यज्ञैस्तादृशैर्देव गतिं प्राप्नोति मानवः । न तीर्थैर्नापि दानैर्वा न व्रतैर्विष्णुवर्जितैः
na yajñaistādṛśairdeva gatiṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ / na tīrthairnāpi dānairvā na vratairviṣṇuvarjitaiḥ
Not by such sacrifices, O god, does a man attain that state, nor by pilgrimage places, nor by gifts, nor by vows in which Viṣṇu is left out.
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NarP 2 4.23
न जले पावके वापि मृतः प्राप्नोति तां गतिम् । योगेन संप्रणष्टो वा भृगुपातेन वा विधे
na jale pāvake vāpi mṛtaḥ prāpnoti tāṃ gatim / yogena saṃpraṇaṣṭo vā bhṛgupātena vā vidhe
Nor does one who has died in water or in fire attain that state, nor one who has made an end of himself by yoga or by casting himself from a cliff, O Vidhi.
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NarP 2 4.24
तादृशीं न गतिं याति यादृशीं वैष्णवव्रती । गतिं मतिमतां श्रेष्ठ सत्यमेतदुदीरितम्
tādṛśīṃ na gatiṃ yāti yādṛśīṃ vaiṣṇavavratī / gatiṃ matimatāṃ śreṣṭha satyametadudīritam
He does not go to such a state as the one who keeps the Vaiṣṇava vow goes to, O best of the wise; this that has been declared is the truth.
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NarP 2 4.25
हरेर्दिने धातृफलाङ्गलिप्तो विमुक्तवाञ्छारसभोजनो नरः । प्रयाति लोके धरणीधरस्य विदुष्टकर्मापि मनुष्यजन्मा
harerdine dhātṛphalāṅgalipto vimuktavāñchārasabhojano naraḥ / prayāti loke dharaṇīdharasya viduṣṭakarmāpi manuṣyajanmā
A man who on Hari's day is smeared on his limbs with āmalaka fruit and eats food free of any craving for flavours goes to the world of the upholder of the earth, even if born human and of corrupt deeds.
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NarP 2 4.26
सो ऽहं निराशो भुवि हीनकर्मा तवागतः पादसरोजयुग्मम् । विज्ञप्ति मात्राभयदाप्तिकालं कुरुष्व सर्गस्थितिनासहेतोः
so 'haṃ nirāśo bhuvi hīnakarmā tavāgataḥ pādasarojayugmam / vijñapti mātrābhayadāptikālaṃ kuruṣva sargasthitināsahetoḥ
Such am I, hopeless, poor in deeds upon the earth, come to the pair of your lotus feet: make it a time when fearlessness is obtained by petition alone, for the sake of creation, maintenance and destruction.
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NarP 2 4.27
मास्युस्तदा पापकृतो विहीना यन्मामकैर्भूतगणैर्मनुष्याः । नियन्त्रिताः शृङ्खलरज्जुबन्धनैः समीपगा मे वशगा भवेयुः
māsyustadā pāpakṛto vihīnā yanmāmakairbhūtagaṇairmanuṣyāḥ / niyantritāḥ śṛṅkhalarajjubandhanaiḥ samīpagā me vaśagā bhaveyuḥ
Then there would be no evildoers left — those men who, bound and held fast by my hosts of spirits with fetters of chain and rope, used to come into my presence and fall under my power.
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NarP 2 4.28
भग्नस्तु मार्गो रवितापयुक्तो यद्विष्णुसंघैरतितीव्रहस्तैः । विमुच्य कुंभीं सकलो जनौघः प्रयाति तद्धाम परात्परस्य
bhagnastu mārgo ravitāpayukto yadviṣṇusaṃghairatitīvrahastaiḥ / vimucya kuṃbhīṃ sakalo janaughaḥ prayāti taddhāma parātparasya
Broken is the road that lies under the sun's heat, since by the hosts of Viṣṇu with their exceedingly swift hands the whole flood of people, released from the cauldron (of hell), goes to that abode of the highest of the high.
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