Kriyāyogasāra-khaṇḍa · Chapter 16
Sourceव्यास उवाच- भूय एव द्विजश्रेष्ठ महाविष्णोः परात्मनः । ब्रवीमि शृणु माहात्म्यं सर्वदुःखविनाशनम् १। ब्राह्मणाः क्षत्त्रिया वैश्याः शूद्राश्चान्येन्त्यजास्तथा । हरिभक्तिं प्रपन्ना ये ते कृतार्था न संशयः २। हरेरभक्तो विप्रोऽपि विज्ञेयः श्वपचाधिकः । हरिभक्तः श्वपाकोऽपि विज्ञेयो ब्राह्मणाधिकः ३। स कथं ब्राह्मणो यस्तु हरिभक्तिविवर्जितः । स कथं श्वपचो यस्तु भगवद्भक्तिमानसः ४। अव्याजेन यदा विष्णुः श्वपाकेनापि पूज्यते । तदा पश्येत्तमप्येवं चतुर्वेदद्विजाधिकम् ५। पुरासीच्चक्रिको नाम शबरो लोककर्षकृत् । सुजातिवृत्तिहीनश्च युगे द्वापरसंज्ञके ६। विप्रवादी जितक्रोधः परहिंसाविवर्जितः । दयालुर्द्दम्भहीनश्च पितृमातृपरायणः ७। न कृतो वैष्णवोलापो मोक्षशास्त्रं न च श्रुतम् । तथापि जाता तच्चित्ते हरिभक्तिरचञ्चला ८। हरे केशव गोविन्द वासुदेव जनार्दन । इत्यादीनि स्मरन्नित्यं स च नामानिचक्रिणः ९। वन्यं फलं च यत्किञ्चित्प्राप्नोति द्विजसत्तम । आदौ ददाति तद्वक्त्रे निजे शबरवंशजः १०। तन्माधुर्यं ततो ज्ञात्वा वक्त्रान्निष्कास्य तत्पुनः । ददाति हरये भक्त्या सुप्रीतः प्रतिवासरम् ११। उच्छिष्टं वाप्यनुच्छिष्टं द्वयमेव न वेत्ति सः । निजजातिस्वभावो हि सततं मूर्घ्नि वर्तते १२। कदाचित्स द्विजश्रेष्ठ काननाभ्यंतरे भ्रमन् । फलमेकं प्राप्य पक्वं प्रियालस्येति शाखिनः १३। अथासौ हर्षितस्तस्य फलमप्राप्य चक्रिकः । स संरंभेण ज्ञात्वा वै निजवक्त्रांतरे ददौ १४। स ददौ तत्फलं यावन्निजवक्त्रांतरे द्विज । प्रविवेश गलं तावत्तत्फलं शृणु जैमिने १५। तावत्सव्येन हस्तेन गलरन्ध्रं बबंध सः । यत्नाद्विधृत्य सव्येन पाणिना सकलं द्विज १६। चक्रिकश्चिन्तयामास हरिभक्तिपरायणः । फलमेतद्यदा तस्मै न ददामि मुरारये १७। न जातः कोऽपि संसारे तदाहमिव पातकी । हरिं संचिंत्य बहुधा स चकार मतिं ततः १८। तथापि तत्फलं तस्य न निष्क्रांतं गलाद्द्विज । हरेरेकांतभक्तोऽसौ छित्त्वा परशुना गलम् १९। आनीय तत्फलं पक्वं ददौ देवाय विष्णवे । तत्सन्निधिं समायातस्तमेव हृदि चिंतयन् २०। रुधिरोक्षितसर्वाङ्गः पतितः क्षितिमण्डले । तं दृष्ट्वा भगवान्विष्णुर्गतासुं व्यथितोऽभवत् २१। एतस्य सदृशो भक्तो मम कोऽपि न विद्यते । यतो निजगलं छित्त्वा मम संतोषणं कृतम् २२। यथा भक्तिमताऽनेन सात्विकं कर्म वै कृतम् । यद्दत्वानृण्यमाप्नोति तथा वस्तुकिमस्ति मे २३। धन्योऽयमतिधन्योऽयं धन्योऽयं नात्र संशयः । प्राणानपि परित्यज्य ममसंतोषणं कृतम् २४। ब्रह्मत्वं वा शिवत्वं वा चक्रित्वं वापि दीयते । तदाप्यानृण्यमेतस्य भक्तस्य न हि गम्यते २५। इत्युक्त्वात्यंत संतुष्टो भगवान्गरुडध्वजः । स्वहस्तकमलेनास्य ततो मस्तकमस्पृशत् २६। तद्धस्तकमलस्पर्शाच्छबरोऽसौ गतव्यथः । समुत्तस्थौ महासत्वो नारायणपरायणः २७। व्यास उवाच- ततोऽस्य भक्तश्रेष्ठस्य निजवस्त्रेण केशवः । पुत्रस्येव पिता गात्ररजः प्रोक्षितवान्द्विज २८। चक्रिकस्तं समालोक्य मूर्तिमंतं जनार्दनम् । वाचा मधुरयाऽस्तौषीत्प्रह्वमस्तः कृताञ्जलिः २९। चक्रिक उवाच- गोविन्द केशव हरे जगदीश विष्णो जानामि यद्यपि न ते स्तुतियोगवाक्यम् । स्तोतुं तथापि रसना मम वांछति त्वां स्वामिन्प्रसीद हर दोषमिमं प्रवृद्धम् ३०। त्यक्त्वा भवंतमखिलेश्वरचक्रपाणे अन्यं यजंति मनुजा जगतीह ये वै । मूढास्त एव दुरितप्रकरैकधाम सानुग्रहस्त्वमसि मय्यपि देव यस्मात् ३१। जानाति देव भवतो भवनैकनाथ भक्त्यैव यद्यपि नृणांभवबंधहर्त्रीम् । एकांतपापशबरान्वयलब्धजन्मा विष्णोस्तथापि भगवान्मयि सुप्रसन्नः ३२। यस्य प्रभो तव मनोज्ञ करारविंदं स्पर्शं चतुर्मुखमुखा अपि देववृन्दाः । न प्राप्नुवंति विदितस्य मयाद्य लब्धं त्वत्तो न कोऽपि सदयो निजसेवकेषु ३३। येन त्वया भगवता त्रिदशाद्यवैरी कंसासुरो निमिसुतः कृतसर्वपापः । सेन्द्रामरप्रकरमर्त्यहिताय पूर्वं तस्मै नमः परममंगलदाय तुभ्यम् ३४। येन त्वयातिबलिना यमलार्जुनौ तौ देवोत्तमेन निहतौ वसुदेवजेन । दुष्टश्च कालयवनो युधि धेनुकश्च तस्मै नमोऽस्तु नवमेघनिभाय तुभ्यम् ३५। श्रीकृष्णदामोदरभो ह्यनंत येन त्वयामरपतेरचला विभूतिः । पूर्वं कृता भगवता परमेश्वरेण तस्मै नमोऽस्तु यदुवंशपराय तुभ्यम् ३६। पारिजातो हृतो येन विजितोऽखंडलस्त्वया । लीलाजित महेशाय तस्मै तुभ्यं नमोनमः ३७। कृत्वा वृकोदरं हेतुं जरासंधो निपातितः । बाणासुरस्य निहता बाहवो ये त्वया हताः ३८। शिशुपालो हतो येन तस्मै नित्यं नमोनमः । भूमेरपहृतो भारस्त्वया येन महात्मना ३९। क्षत्त्रियान्मायया हत्वा तस्मै नित्यं नमोनमः । व्यास उवाच- इति तेन स्तुतो विष्णुश्चक्रिकेन महात्मना ४०। उवाच परमप्रीतो वरं वृण्विति जैमिने । चक्रिक उवाच- परं ब्रह्म परं धाम परमात्मन्कृपामय ४१। पश्यामि त्वामहं साक्षाद्वरैः किमपरैर्द्विज । न ध्याता भवतो मूर्तिः पूजा च न कृता तव ४२। नैवेद्यैर्दिव्यपुष्पैश्च दिव्यधूपैः प्रदीपकैः । न ते स्मृतानि नामानि कदाचिद्भवतो मया ४३। त्वत्पादसलिलं स्वामिन्विधृतं न हि मूर्द्धनि । न भुक्तं तव नैवेद्यं त्वद्व्रतं न मया कृतम् ४४। तथाप्यहमपश्यं त्वां किं करोम्यपरैर्वरैः । शबरान्वयजन्मास्मि सर्वधर्मबहिष्कृतः ४५। तथापि पादपद्मं ते दैवतैरपि दुर्ल्लभम् । तदेवाद्य मया प्राप्तं वरैः किमपरैर्मम ४६। तथापि कमलाकांत वरदित्सुर्यदा भवान् । त्वयि तिष्ठतु मे चित्तं न मज्जेत्त्वदनुग्रहात् ४७। श्रीभगवानुवाच- वचनाऽमृतवर्षेण त्वदीयेन महाशय । संप्राप्य महतीं तुष्टिं मया सेवकपापिना ४८। यदिदं वत्स मे दत्तं त्वया कमलमुत्तमम् । अनेनात्यंततुष्टोऽस्मि भक्तिं गृह्णामि हर्षितः ४९। व्यास उवाच- इत्युक्त्वा भगवान्विष्णुर्भक्तिग्राही दयामयः । तमालिंगितवान्भक्तं चतुर्भिर्दीर्घबाहुभिः ५० 7.16.50। श्रीभगवानुवाच- तुष्टोऽस्मि भवतो भक्त्या वत्स चक्रिकसत्तम । यदिदं वत्स मे दत्तं क्षिप्रं भवति निश्चितम् ५१। भूयोऽपि तं महाभक्तमालिङ्ग्य परमेश्वरः । तत्रैवांतर्द्दधे विप्र विश्वात्मा विश्वपालकः ५२। स चक्रिकोऽतिसंतुष्टो हरिभक्तिपरायणः । पुत्रदारादिकं त्यक्त्वा जगाम द्वारकां पुरीम् ५३। तत्र चैवं समासाद्य कृपया कमलापतेः । आयुषोऽन्ते ययौ मोक्षं देवानामपि दुर्ल्लभम् ५४। तस्माद्भक्तवशो देवो भक्तिमात्रेण तुष्यति । न च स्तोत्रैर्न वित्तैश्च न तपोभिर्जपेन च ५५। फलं यद्यपि चोच्छिष्टं दत्तं तेन द्विजोत्तम । तथापि तुष्टवान्विष्णुर्ज्ञात्वा भक्तिमचञ्चलाम् ५६। तस्मान्नारायणो देवः संसारेऽस्मिन्मुमुक्षुभिः ५७। ये यजंति दृढया किल भक्त्या वासुदेवचरणांबुजयुग्मम् । वासवादिविबुधप्रवरेज्यं ते व्रजन्ति मनुजाः किल मोक्षम् ५८। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे क्रियायोगसारे षोडशोऽध्यायः १६ ।
vyāsa uvāca- bhūya eva dvijaśreṣṭha mahāviṣṇoḥ parātmanaḥ | bravīmi śṛṇu māhātmyaṃ sarvaduḥkhavināśanam 1| brāhmaṇāḥ kṣattriyā vaiśyāḥ śūdrāścānyentyajāstathā | haribhaktiṃ prapannā ye te kṛtārthā na saṃśayaḥ 2| harerabhakto vipro'pi vijñeyaḥ śvapacādhikaḥ | haribhaktaḥ śvapāko'pi vijñeyo brāhmaṇādhikaḥ 3| sa kathaṃ brāhmaṇo yastu haribhaktivivarjitaḥ | sa kathaṃ śvapaco yastu bhagavadbhaktimānasaḥ 4| avyājena yadā viṣṇuḥ śvapākenāpi pūjyate | tadā paśyettamapyevaṃ caturvedadvijādhikam 5| purāsīccakriko nāma śabaro lokakarṣakṛt | sujātivṛttihīnaśca yuge dvāparasaṃjñake 6| vipravādī jitakrodhaḥ parahiṃsāvivarjitaḥ | dayālurddambhahīnaśca pitṛmātṛparāyaṇaḥ 7| na kṛto vaiṣṇavolāpo mokṣaśāstraṃ na ca śrutam | tathāpi jātā taccitte haribhaktiracañcalā 8| hare keśava govinda vāsudeva janārdana | ityādīni smarannityaṃ sa ca nāmānicakriṇaḥ 9| vanyaṃ phalaṃ ca yatkiñcitprāpnoti dvijasattama | ādau dadāti tadvaktre nije śabaravaṃśajaḥ 10| tanmādhuryaṃ tato jñātvā vaktrānniṣkāsya tatpunaḥ | dadāti haraye bhaktyā suprītaḥ prativāsaram 11| ucchiṣṭaṃ vāpyanucchiṣṭaṃ dvayameva na vetti saḥ | nijajātisvabhāvo hi satataṃ mūrghni vartate 12| kadācitsa dvijaśreṣṭha kānanābhyaṃtare bhraman | phalamekaṃ prāpya pakvaṃ priyālasyeti śākhinaḥ 13| athāsau harṣitastasya phalamaprāpya cakrikaḥ | sa saṃraṃbheṇa jñātvā vai nijavaktrāṃtare dadau 14| sa dadau tatphalaṃ yāvannijavaktrāṃtare dvija | praviveśa galaṃ tāvattatphalaṃ śṛṇu jaimine 15| tāvatsavyena hastena galarandhraṃ babaṃdha saḥ | yatnādvidhṛtya savyena pāṇinā sakalaṃ dvija 16| cakrikaścintayāmāsa haribhaktiparāyaṇaḥ | phalametadyadā tasmai na dadāmi murāraye 17| na jātaḥ ko'pi saṃsāre tadāhamiva pātakī | hariṃ saṃciṃtya bahudhā sa cakāra matiṃ tataḥ 18| tathāpi tatphalaṃ tasya na niṣkrāṃtaṃ galāddvija | harerekāṃtabhakto'sau chittvā paraśunā galam 19| ānīya tatphalaṃ pakvaṃ dadau devāya viṣṇave | tatsannidhiṃ samāyātastameva hṛdi ciṃtayan 20| rudhirokṣitasarvāṅgaḥ patitaḥ kṣitimaṇḍale | taṃ dṛṣṭvā bhagavānviṣṇurgatāsuṃ vyathito'bhavat 21| etasya sadṛśo bhakto mama ko'pi na vidyate | yato nijagalaṃ chittvā mama saṃtoṣaṇaṃ kṛtam 22| yathā bhaktimatā'nena sātvikaṃ karma vai kṛtam | yaddatvānṛṇyamāpnoti tathā vastukimasti me 23| dhanyo'yamatidhanyo'yaṃ dhanyo'yaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ | prāṇānapi parityajya mamasaṃtoṣaṇaṃ kṛtam 24| brahmatvaṃ vā śivatvaṃ vā cakritvaṃ vāpi dīyate | tadāpyānṛṇyametasya bhaktasya na hi gamyate 25| ityuktvātyaṃta saṃtuṣṭo bhagavāngaruḍadhvajaḥ | svahastakamalenāsya tato mastakamaspṛśat 26| taddhastakamalasparśācchabaro'sau gatavyathaḥ | samuttasthau mahāsatvo nārāyaṇaparāyaṇaḥ 27| vyāsa uvāca- tato'sya bhaktaśreṣṭhasya nijavastreṇa keśavaḥ | putrasyeva pitā gātrarajaḥ prokṣitavāndvija 28| cakrikastaṃ samālokya mūrtimaṃtaṃ janārdanam | vācā madhurayā'stauṣītprahvamastaḥ kṛtāñjaliḥ 29| cakrika uvāca- govinda keśava hare jagadīśa viṣṇo jānāmi yadyapi na te stutiyogavākyam | stotuṃ tathāpi rasanā mama vāṃchati tvāṃ svāminprasīda hara doṣamimaṃ pravṛddham 30| tyaktvā bhavaṃtamakhileśvaracakrapāṇe anyaṃ yajaṃti manujā jagatīha ye vai | mūḍhāsta eva duritaprakaraikadhāma sānugrahastvamasi mayyapi deva yasmāt 31| jānāti deva bhavato bhavanaikanātha bhaktyaiva yadyapi nṛṇāṃbhavabaṃdhahartrīm | ekāṃtapāpaśabarānvayalabdhajanmā viṣṇostathāpi bhagavānmayi suprasannaḥ 32| yasya prabho tava manojña karāraviṃdaṃ sparśaṃ caturmukhamukhā api devavṛndāḥ | na prāpnuvaṃti viditasya mayādya labdhaṃ tvatto na ko'pi sadayo nijasevakeṣu 33| yena tvayā bhagavatā tridaśādyavairī kaṃsāsuro nimisutaḥ kṛtasarvapāpaḥ | sendrāmaraprakaramartyahitāya pūrvaṃ tasmai namaḥ paramamaṃgaladāya tubhyam 34| yena tvayātibalinā yamalārjunau tau devottamena nihatau vasudevajena | duṣṭaśca kālayavano yudhi dhenukaśca tasmai namo'stu navameghanibhāya tubhyam 35| śrīkṛṣṇadāmodarabho hyanaṃta yena tvayāmarapateracalā vibhūtiḥ | pūrvaṃ kṛtā bhagavatā parameśvareṇa tasmai namo'stu yaduvaṃśaparāya tubhyam 36| pārijāto hṛto yena vijito'khaṃḍalastvayā | līlājita maheśāya tasmai tubhyaṃ namonamaḥ 37| kṛtvā vṛkodaraṃ hetuṃ jarāsaṃdho nipātitaḥ | bāṇāsurasya nihatā bāhavo ye tvayā hatāḥ 38| śiśupālo hato yena tasmai nityaṃ namonamaḥ | bhūmerapahṛto bhārastvayā yena mahātmanā 39| kṣattriyānmāyayā hatvā tasmai nityaṃ namonamaḥ | vyāsa uvāca- iti tena stuto viṣṇuścakrikena mahātmanā 40| uvāca paramaprīto varaṃ vṛṇviti jaimine | cakrika uvāca- paraṃ brahma paraṃ dhāma paramātmankṛpāmaya 41| paśyāmi tvāmahaṃ sākṣādvaraiḥ kimaparairdvija | na dhyātā bhavato mūrtiḥ pūjā ca na kṛtā tava 42| naivedyairdivyapuṣpaiśca divyadhūpaiḥ pradīpakaiḥ | na te smṛtāni nāmāni kadācidbhavato mayā 43| tvatpādasalilaṃ svāminvidhṛtaṃ na hi mūrddhani | na bhuktaṃ tava naivedyaṃ tvadvrataṃ na mayā kṛtam 44| tathāpyahamapaśyaṃ tvāṃ kiṃ karomyaparairvaraiḥ | śabarānvayajanmāsmi sarvadharmabahiṣkṛtaḥ 45| tathāpi pādapadmaṃ te daivatairapi durllabham | tadevādya mayā prāptaṃ varaiḥ kimaparairmama 46| tathāpi kamalākāṃta varaditsuryadā bhavān | tvayi tiṣṭhatu me cittaṃ na majjettvadanugrahāt 47| śrībhagavānuvāca- vacanā'mṛtavarṣeṇa tvadīyena mahāśaya | saṃprāpya mahatīṃ tuṣṭiṃ mayā sevakapāpinā 48| yadidaṃ vatsa me dattaṃ tvayā kamalamuttamam | anenātyaṃtatuṣṭo'smi bhaktiṃ gṛhṇāmi harṣitaḥ 49| vyāsa uvāca- ityuktvā bhagavānviṣṇurbhaktigrāhī dayāmayaḥ | tamāliṃgitavānbhaktaṃ caturbhirdīrghabāhubhiḥ 50 7.16.50| śrībhagavānuvāca- tuṣṭo'smi bhavato bhaktyā vatsa cakrikasattama | yadidaṃ vatsa me dattaṃ kṣipraṃ bhavati niścitam 51| bhūyo'pi taṃ mahābhaktamāliṅgya parameśvaraḥ | tatraivāṃtarddadhe vipra viśvātmā viśvapālakaḥ 52| sa cakriko'tisaṃtuṣṭo haribhaktiparāyaṇaḥ | putradārādikaṃ tyaktvā jagāma dvārakāṃ purīm 53| tatra caivaṃ samāsādya kṛpayā kamalāpateḥ | āyuṣo'nte yayau mokṣaṃ devānāmapi durllabham 54| tasmādbhaktavaśo devo bhaktimātreṇa tuṣyati | na ca stotrairna vittaiśca na tapobhirjapena ca 55| phalaṃ yadyapi cocchiṣṭaṃ dattaṃ tena dvijottama | tathāpi tuṣṭavānviṣṇurjñātvā bhaktimacañcalām 56| tasmānnārāyaṇo devaḥ saṃsāre'sminmumukṣubhiḥ 57| ye yajaṃti dṛḍhayā kila bhaktyā vāsudevacaraṇāṃbujayugmam | vāsavādivibudhapravarejyaṃ te vrajanti manujāḥ kila mokṣam 58| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe kriyāyogasāre ṣoḍaśo'dhyāyaḥ 16 |
English translation
Vyāsa said :
1. O greatest brāhmaṇa , I am again describing the greatness of Viṣṇu , the highest soul, which destroys all unhappiness. (Please) listen.
2-3. Those brāhmaṇas , kṣatriyas , vaiśyas , śūdras and. others belonging to the lowest castes, who resort to Viṣṇu’s devotion, are fortunate. There is no doubt about this. A brāhmaṇa who is not a devotee of Viṣṇu, should be known to be inferior to a cāṇḍāla , while a cāṇḍāla who is devoted to Viṣṇu, should be known to be superior to a brāhmaṇa.
4. How can he who is without devotion for Viṣṇu, be a brāhmaṇa? And how can he, in whose mind there is devotion for Viṣṇu, be a cāṇḍāla?
5. One should look upon that cāṇḍāla when he honestly worships Viṣṇu, to be superior to a brāhmaṇa knowing (all) the four Vedas .
6-16. Formerly in the yuga called Dvāpara , there was a mountaineer named Cakrika , who tilled (others’) land and who did not have a good birth (i.e. birth in a good family) but was without a good livelihood. He talked like brāhmaṇas, had curbed his anger, was free from harming others, kind, without hypocrisy, and highly devoted to his father and mother. He had not talked about Viṣṇu; he had not learnt the holy texts about liberation. Yet there arose in his mind steady devotion for Viṣṇu. Everyday he remembered names of the Disc-holder (Viṣṇu) like Hari , Keśava , Govinda , Vāsudeva , Janārdana . He, born in a mountaineer’s family, first put into his own mouth whatever wild fruit he had obtained. He then knowing its sweetness and taking it out of his mouth again and being very much pleased, everyday offered it to Viṣṇu. He did not discriminate between what is defiled (by being tasted by the mouth) and what is not. The habit of one’s own class always remains at the top (i.e. prevails). O greatest brāhmaṇa, once he, while roaming in a forest, found a ripe fruit of priyāla tree. He, not finding (such) a fruit (before), was delighted, and to know (its taste) he hastily put it into his mouth. O Jaimini , just when he put the fruit into his mouth, it got into his throat, O brāhmaṇa. O brāhmaṇa, holding (his throat) carefully with his left hand, he arrested (the downward movement of the fruit through) the entire cavity of his throat with his right hand.
17-20. Then Cakrika, solely absorbed in devotion for Viṣṇu, thought: ‘If I do not offer this fruit to that enemy of Mura , then no sinner like me is born in the worldly existence.’ Meditating on Viṣṇu in various ways he then decided. Yet that fruit did not come out of his throat, O brāhmaṇa. That exclusive devotee of Viṣṇu cut his throat with an axe. He brought (out) that fruit (from his throat) and offered it to Viṣṇu. He, thinking about him only in his heart, approached him.
21-22. And with his entire body wetted with blood, he fell on the ground. Seeing him dead, lord Viṣṇu was distressed. “There is no (other) devotee like him, since, he having cut his throat, pleased me.
23-25. Since this devoted one has done a good act, what object can there be, by giving which I can be free from his debt? He is blessed, he is very blessed. He is undoubtedly blessed. Even sacrificing his life, he has pleased me. I do not know whether I (should) give him the position of Brahmā , or of Śiva or an emperor and be free from his debt.”
26-27. Saying so, and being very much pleased, the Garuḍa -bannered god touched his head with the lotus in his own hand. Due to the touch of the lotus in his hand, that mountaineer, freed from the anguish, solely devoted to Viṣṇu, got up with great vigour.
Vyāsa said :
28-29. Then Viṣṇu cleaned the dust on the body of that greatest devotee with his own garment as a father (cleans the dust on the body of his son), O brāhmaṇa. Cakrika, seeing Viṣṇu in an embodied form, humbly bent down his head, and with the palms of his hands joined, praised him with sweet words.
Cakrika said :
30-32. O Govinda, Keśava, Hari, Jagadīśa , Viṣṇu, though I do not know (i.e. find) words proper for your praise, yet my tongue desires to praise you. O lord, be pleased; remove this enhanced blemish. O lord of everything, O you having the disc in your hand, those men who, leaving you, worship another god in the world are just fools, since you are favouring even me who am the abode of the heap of sins only. Though I who am extremely sinful and who have been born in a mountaineer’s family, know you (only) through devotion for you which removes the bond of the mundane existence of men, yet the lord is very much pleased with me, O you, the only lord of the world.
33-37. O lord, I have today gained the touch of your charming, lotus-like hands which even hosts of gods led by Brahmā do not obtain. There is no one (more) kind than you to his servants. Salutation to you, the most auspicious (god), who, the lord, for the good of the group of gods like Indra , formerly (killed) the demon Kaṃsa , the first enemy of gods, and Nimi ’s son who had committed all sins. Salutation to you resembling a fresh cloud, who, the very powerful son of Vasudeva and the best god killed the twin Arjuna trees, so also the wicked Kālayavana in a battle, so also Dhenuka . O Śrī Kṛṣṇa , O Dāmodara , O Ananta , salutation to you, the best in Yadu family, who, the lord, the highest god, formerly gave steady prosperity to the lord of gods (i.e. Indra). Repeated salutations to you who took away the pārijāta tree, who vanquished Indra and easily conquered Maheśa .
38-40a. Making Bhīma the instrument you knocked down Jarāsandha . The arms of Bāṇāsura struck by you, perished. I always salute him who killed Śiśupāla . Constant and repeated salutations to him who, the noble one, having killed the kṣatriyas through his Māyā , removed the burden of the earth.
Vyāsa said :
40b-4la. O Jaimini, Viṣṇu, thus praised by the magnanimous Cakrika, being very much pleased, said to him: “Choose a boon.”
Cakrika said :
41b-47. O highest Brahman , O highest abode, O highest soul, O you full of pity, I am actually seeing you. What is the use of other boons, O twice-born? I did not meditate upon your form. I did not worship you with offerings of eatables, divine flowers, divine incenses or lamps. I never recollected your names. O lord, I never held on my head the water (flowing) from your feet. I did not eat the offerings of eatables made to you, nor did I observe any vow (in honour) of you. Yet I (am able to) see you. What shall I do with other boons? I am born in a mountaineer’s family and am excluded from all religious rites. Yet I have today secured your lotus-like feet difficult to be secured even by deities. What (then) is the use of other boons to me? Yet, O lord of Lakṣmī , when you desire to grant a boon, (then) let my heart remain on you; let it not sink from (want of) your favour.
The lord said :
48-49. I, a sinful servant, have got great satisfaction by this shower of nectar that you have offered, O large-hearted one. O dear, I am very much pleased with this excellent lotus that you offered me. Being delighted (i.e. gladly) I accept your devotion.
Vyāsa said :
50. Speaking like this, Viṣṇu who accepted devotion and who was full of pity, embraced the devotee with his four long arms.
The lord said :
51-52. O dear, O Cakrika, O best one, I am pleased with your devotion. O dear, whatever I have given will certainly come off.
The universal soul, the protector of the universe, the highest lord, having again embraced that great devotee, vanished there only.
53-54. That Cakrika, highly intent upon devotion for Viṣṇu was very much pleased, and abandoning his sons, wife etc. went to the city of Dvārakā . Having, due to the favour of Lakṣmī’s lord, thus gone there, he, at the end of his life, attained liberation, difficult to be had even by gods.
55-56. Therefore, god is dependent upon his devotees. He is pleased merely by means of devotion, and not by means of hymns of praise, wealth, austerities or muttering (a deity’s names). O best brāhmaṇa, though he gave (Viṣṇu) the fruit that had been defiled by him (by tasting), yet Viṣṇu, knowing his steady devotion, was pleased with him.
57-58. Therefore, in this world those who desire liberation, (should worship) god Viṣṇu. Those men, who worship with a firm devotion the pair of Viṣṇu’s lotus-like feet, fit to be worshipped by great deities like Indra, go to (i.e. obtain) liberation.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 45201, revision 336764 (2022-04-27T03:45:29Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365857.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.