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Chapter 28

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।। श्रीनारायण उवाच ।। आचम्य प्राणानायम्य ततोसौ स्वस्थमानसः ।। नमस्कृत्येष्टदेवादीन्देशकालौ च कीर्तयेत् ।। १ ।। एकान्तधर्मसिद्यर्थं वासुदेवस्य पूजनम् ।। करिष्य इति संकल्प्य कुर्यान्न्यासविधिं ततः ।। २ ।। न्यासे मन्त्रा द्वादशार्णो गायत्री वैष्णवी तथा।। नारायणाष्टाक्षरश्च ज्ञेया विष्णुषडक्षरः ।। ३ ।। एते द्विजानां विहितास्तदन्येषां त्विह त्रयः ।। वासुदेवाष्टाक्षरश्च हरिपञ्चाक्षरस्तथा ।। षडर्णः केशवस्येति न्यासे होमे च संमताः ।। ४ ।। श्रीविष्णुप्रतिमांगेषु स्वांगेष्विव ततोऽखिलान् ।। कुर्यान्यासांश्च तैर्मन्त्रैस्ततोर्चां वाससाऽऽमृजेत्।।५।। कलशं वामभागे स्वे संस्थाप्यावाह्य तत्र च।। तीर्थानि गन्धपुष्पाद्यैरुपचारैस्तमर्चयेत्।।६।। पूजाद्रव्याणि चात्मानं प्रोक्षयित्वा तदम्बुना।। शंखं घण्टां च संपूज्य भूतशुद्धिं समाचरेत्।।७।। आभ्यन्तराग्निवायुभ्यां दग्ध्वा पापात्मकं वपुः ।। शुद्धस्य स्वात्मनस्त्वैक्यं भावयेद्ब्रह्मणा स्थिरः।।८।। ततोऽक्षरब्रह्मरूपो राधाकृष्णं हृदि प्रभुम् ।। ध्यायेदव्यग्रमनसा प्राणायामं समाचरन्।।९।। अधोमुखं नाभिपद्मं कदलीपुष्पवत्स्थितम्।। विभाव्यापानपवनं प्राणेनैक्यमुपानयेत्।।2.9.28.१०।। पद्मनाले तमानीय सह तेन तदम्बुजम्।। आकर्षेदूर्ध्वमथ तन्नदत्तीव्रमुपैति हृत् ।। प्रफुल्लति च तत्रैतद्धृदयाकाश उल्लसत् ।। ११ ।। तेजोराशिमये तत्र ततोप्यधिकतेजसा ।। दर्शनीयतमं शान्तं ध्यायेच्छ्रीराधिकापतिम् ।। १२ ।। उपविष्टं स्थितं वा तं दिव्यचिन्मयविग्रहम् ।। ध्यायेत्किशोरवयसं कोटिकन्दर्पसुन्दरम् ।। १३ ।। रूपानुरूपसंपूर्णदिव्यावयवलक्षितम् ।। शरच्चन्द्रावदातांगं दीर्घचारुभुजद्वयम् ।। १४ ।। आरक्तकोमलतलरम्यांगुलिपदाम्बुजम् ।। तुंगारुणस्निग्धनखद्युतिलज्जायितोडुपम् ।। १५ ।। शिञ्जत्किंकिणिमञ्जीरहंसकांघ्रियुगश्रियम् ।। सुवृत्तजंघायुगलं समजानूरुशोभनम् ।। १६ ।। सद्रत्नरशनाबद्धपीताम्बरकटिश्रियम् ।। उत्तुंगकुक्षिनाभ्यन्तर्निम्ननाभिवलित्रयम् ।। १७।। विततोत्तुंगहृदयं श्रीवत्सावर्त्तशोभितम् ।। ललन्तीगुच्छगुच्छार्द्धदेवच्छन्दादिभूषितम् ।। १८ ।। नानासुगन्धिपुष्पस्रक्स्वर्णयज्ञोपवीतिनम् ।। उन्निद्रशोणपद्माभकरकंकणभूषणम् ।। १९ ।। सूक्ष्मपर्वांगुलिद्योतन्नैकसद्रत्नमुद्रिकम् ।। निनादयन्तं मधुरं वेणुं सर्वमनोहरम् ।। 2.9.28.२० ।। विपुलांसं गूढजत्रुं महाबाह्वंगदद्युतिम् ।। भ्रमत्सुगन्धलुब्धालिझंकारितवनस्रजम् ।। २१ ।। कम्बूपमगलभ्राजत्सद्ग्रैवेयककौस्तुभम् ।। शोभमानहनुं बिम्बीफलशोणाधरद्युतिम् ।। २२ ।। सितस्मितकलाराजत्पूर्णचन्द्रनिभाननम् ।। तिलपुष्पसमाकारदर्शनीयसुनासिकम् ।। २३ ।। समानकर्णविभ्राजन्मकराकृतिकुण्डलम् ।। कर्णोपरिलसच्चित्रपुष्पगुच्छावतंसकम् ।। २४ ।। समसूक्ष्मरदज्योत्स्नोल्लसद्गण्डस्थलश्रियम् ।। पद्मपत्रायतारक्तप्रान्तरम्यविलोचनम् ।। २५ ।। पृथुतुंगललाटं च कामचापायितभ्रुवम् ।। वक्रसूक्ष्मासितस्निग्धमनोहरशिरोरुहम् ।। २६ ।। नानासद्रत्नखचितकिरीटधृतशेखरम् ।। प्रेम्णा निजं वीक्षमाणं प्रसन्नं स्निग्धया दृशा ।। २७ ।। ध्यात्वेत्थं कृष्णमथ तद्वामे राधां विचिन्तयेत् ।। द्विभुजां स्वर्णगौरांगीं कौसुम्भामलवाससम् ।। २८ ।। समकर्णोल्लसद्रत्नभूषणांशुकनासिकाम् ।। किशोरीं मृगशावाक्षीं पीनोन्नतघनस्तनीम् ।। २९ ।। कृशमध्यां पृथुश्रोणिं रत्नकाञ्चीविभूषिताम् ।। अनेकदिव्याभरणां विकचाब्जाननस्मिताम् ।। 2.9.28.३० ।। रत्नांगुलीयकेयूरकङ्कणादिलसत्कराम् ।। शिञ्जद्धंसकमञ्जीरशोभमानांघ्रिपङ्कजाम् ।। ३१ ।। विशालभालविलसत्सत्काश्मीरललाटिकाम् ।। बिम्बोष्ठीं सुकपोलां च वेणीग्रथितमालतीम् ।। ३२ ।। प्रेक्षमाणां प्रभुं प्रेम्णा दधानामम्बुजं करे ।। ध्यात्वैवं राधिकां तत्र प्रभुमर्चेत्तया सह ।। ३३ ।। इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां द्वितीये वैष्णवखण्डे श्रीवासुदेवमाहात्म्ये क्रियायोगे श्रीराधाकृष्णस्वरूपध्याननिरूपणं नामाऽष्टाविंशोऽध्यायः ।। २८ ।।

|| śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca || ācamya prāṇānāyamya tatosau svasthamānasaḥ || namaskṛtyeṣṭadevādīndeśakālau ca kīrtayet || 1 || ekāntadharmasidyarthaṃ vāsudevasya pūjanam || kariṣya iti saṃkalpya kuryānnyāsavidhiṃ tataḥ || 2 || nyāse mantrā dvādaśārṇo gāyatrī vaiṣṇavī tathā|| nārāyaṇāṣṭākṣaraśca jñeyā viṣṇuṣaḍakṣaraḥ || 3 || ete dvijānāṃ vihitāstadanyeṣāṃ tviha trayaḥ || vāsudevāṣṭākṣaraśca haripañcākṣarastathā || ṣaḍarṇaḥ keśavasyeti nyāse home ca saṃmatāḥ || 4 || śrīviṣṇupratimāṃgeṣu svāṃgeṣviva tato'khilān || kuryānyāsāṃśca tairmantraistatorcāṃ vāsasā''mṛjet||5|| kalaśaṃ vāmabhāge sve saṃsthāpyāvāhya tatra ca|| tīrthāni gandhapuṣpādyairupacāraistamarcayet||6|| pūjādravyāṇi cātmānaṃ prokṣayitvā tadambunā|| śaṃkhaṃ ghaṇṭāṃ ca saṃpūjya bhūtaśuddhiṃ samācaret||7|| ābhyantarāgnivāyubhyāṃ dagdhvā pāpātmakaṃ vapuḥ || śuddhasya svātmanastvaikyaṃ bhāvayedbrahmaṇā sthiraḥ||8|| tato'kṣarabrahmarūpo rādhākṛṣṇaṃ hṛdi prabhum || dhyāyedavyagramanasā prāṇāyāmaṃ samācaran||9|| adhomukhaṃ nābhipadmaṃ kadalīpuṣpavatsthitam|| vibhāvyāpānapavanaṃ prāṇenaikyamupānayet||2.9.28.10|| padmanāle tamānīya saha tena tadambujam|| ākarṣedūrdhvamatha tannadattīvramupaiti hṛt || praphullati ca tatraitaddhṛdayākāśa ullasat || 11 || tejorāśimaye tatra tatopyadhikatejasā || darśanīyatamaṃ śāntaṃ dhyāyecchrīrādhikāpatim || 12 || upaviṣṭaṃ sthitaṃ vā taṃ divyacinmayavigraham || dhyāyetkiśoravayasaṃ koṭikandarpasundaram || 13 || rūpānurūpasaṃpūrṇadivyāvayavalakṣitam || śaraccandrāvadātāṃgaṃ dīrghacārubhujadvayam || 14 || āraktakomalatalaramyāṃgulipadāmbujam || tuṃgāruṇasnigdhanakhadyutilajjāyitoḍupam || 15 || śiñjatkiṃkiṇimañjīrahaṃsakāṃghriyugaśriyam || suvṛttajaṃghāyugalaṃ samajānūruśobhanam || 16 || sadratnaraśanābaddhapītāmbarakaṭiśriyam || uttuṃgakukṣinābhyantarnimnanābhivalitrayam || 17|| vitatottuṃgahṛdayaṃ śrīvatsāvarttaśobhitam || lalantīgucchagucchārddhadevacchandādibhūṣitam || 18 || nānāsugandhipuṣpasraksvarṇayajñopavītinam || unnidraśoṇapadmābhakarakaṃkaṇabhūṣaṇam || 19 || sūkṣmaparvāṃgulidyotannaikasadratnamudrikam || ninādayantaṃ madhuraṃ veṇuṃ sarvamanoharam || 2.9.28.20 || vipulāṃsaṃ gūḍhajatruṃ mahābāhvaṃgadadyutim || bhramatsugandhalubdhālijhaṃkāritavanasrajam || 21 || kambūpamagalabhrājatsadgraiveyakakaustubham || śobhamānahanuṃ bimbīphalaśoṇādharadyutim || 22 || sitasmitakalārājatpūrṇacandranibhānanam || tilapuṣpasamākāradarśanīyasunāsikam || 23 || samānakarṇavibhrājanmakarākṛtikuṇḍalam || karṇoparilasaccitrapuṣpagucchāvataṃsakam || 24 || samasūkṣmaradajyotsnollasadgaṇḍasthalaśriyam || padmapatrāyatāraktaprāntaramyavilocanam || 25 || pṛthutuṃgalalāṭaṃ ca kāmacāpāyitabhruvam || vakrasūkṣmāsitasnigdhamanoharaśiroruham || 26 || nānāsadratnakhacitakirīṭadhṛtaśekharam || premṇā nijaṃ vīkṣamāṇaṃ prasannaṃ snigdhayā dṛśā || 27 || dhyātvetthaṃ kṛṣṇamatha tadvāme rādhāṃ vicintayet || dvibhujāṃ svarṇagaurāṃgīṃ kausumbhāmalavāsasam || 28 || samakarṇollasadratnabhūṣaṇāṃśukanāsikām || kiśorīṃ mṛgaśāvākṣīṃ pīnonnataghanastanīm || 29 || kṛśamadhyāṃ pṛthuśroṇiṃ ratnakāñcīvibhūṣitām || anekadivyābharaṇāṃ vikacābjānanasmitām || 2.9.28.30 || ratnāṃgulīyakeyūrakaṅkaṇādilasatkarām || śiñjaddhaṃsakamañjīraśobhamānāṃghripaṅkajām || 31 || viśālabhālavilasatsatkāśmīralalāṭikām || bimboṣṭhīṃ sukapolāṃ ca veṇīgrathitamālatīm || 32 || prekṣamāṇāṃ prabhuṃ premṇā dadhānāmambujaṃ kare || dhyātvaivaṃ rādhikāṃ tatra prabhumarcettayā saha || 33 || iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvitīye vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍe śrīvāsudevamāhātmye kriyāyoge śrīrādhākṛṣṇasvarūpadhyānanirūpaṇaṃ nāmā'ṣṭāviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ || 28 ||

English translation

Note: The actual procedure of the worship of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa is described in this chapter.

Śrī Nārāyaṇa said :

1. After sipping water and practising breath-control (with Oṃ bhūr etc.) and then with a composed mind, one should pay obeisance to one’s desired deities, and proclaim the time ( tithi etc.) and place (of worship).

2. After taking the solemn vow (the formal Saṅkalpa ), “I shall perform the worship of Vāsudeva for the accomplishment of Ekānta Dharma ,” one should then perform the procedural Nyāsa (i.e. assignment of the various parts of the body to deities accompanied with prayers or Mantras and corresponding gesticulations).

3. In Nyāsa , the following are the Mantras:

4. These are prescribed for twice-born castes. For others three are given here:

These are approved for Nyāsa as well as for Homa (oblations to fire).

5. Just as one performs Nyāsa on various parts of his own body (uttering specific mantras), the same way all the Nyāsas should be performed on the various parts of the idol of Śrī Viṣṇu while uttering the specified Mantras. Then one should wipe off the idol with a clean cloth.

6. Placing the pitcher (of water) to one’s left side and invoking all the Tīrthas (sacred places, rivers) there, one should worship it with the articles of worship such as sandal-paste, flowers etc.

7. After sprinkling the articles of worship and one’s own person with the water from the (worshipped) pitcher and after worshipping the conch and the bell, one should perform the purification of the bhūtas (i.e. elements constituting the body).

8. After burning the (internal) sinful body with internal fire and wind, one remaining stable (in one’s posture), should reflect upon the identity of one’s pure self with Brahman .

9. Then performing breath-control, one should, with concentrated mind, meditate upon Lord Rādhākṛṣṇa of the form of imperishable Brahman in one’s heart.

10. The lotus (i.e. the Yogic plexus) at the navel is in a drooping position like the flower of Kadalī (plantain tree). Reflecting upon the vital wind called Apāna , one should bring about its union with the vital wind called Prāṇa .

11. After bringing it in the hollow stalk of the lotus (the internal paṃ through which life breath proceeds upwards, the path of Kuṇḍalinī ?), one should pull in the upward direction that ‘lotus’ along with that (breath). Making a loud sound it goes to the ‘heart’ (known as hṛtkamala ). It fully blossoms there shiningly expanding in the cavity of the heart.

12. In the mass of light (permeating that ‘sky’) one should meditate upon quiescent Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of Rādhikā who is the most beautiful and outstanding, by his surpassing superior refulgence.

13-27. One should meditate upon that divine personality constituted of cit (the animating principle), as being in the sitting or standing posture. (He should be contemplated as) a lad (below the age of fifteen), beautiful like ten million gods of love (their accumulated beauty); characterised by divine limbs full of suitable beauty; his body, pure and charming like the autumnal moon; his pair of arms long and lovely; his lotus-feet with reddish, tender soles and beautiful toes; the prominent, red, resplendent brilliance of his nails having put to shame the moon (the crescent of the moon); with a beautiful pair of feet wearing tinkling anklets and Haṃsakas (swan-foot-shaped foot ornament) with well-rounded pair of calves; beautiful with symmetrical knees and thighs; with beautiful waist, the yellow garment over which is tied with a girdle of excellent jewels; with the three folds (of skin on the upper part of the belly) hidden between his bulging belly and the deep navel, having a broad and high (well-developed) chest beautified by the circular line of hair of Śrīvatsa ; adorned with ornaments like the lolling bunch of flowers and pearl-necklaces of twenty-four strings ( Gucchārdha ) and of a hundred strings ( Devacchanda ) and others; wearing a gold sacred ṃread and various kinds of garlands of fragrant flowers; adorned with bracelets on the wrists having the beauty of bloomed red lotus; having many (lit. more than one) rings set with excellent gems, illuminating the tiny joints of his fingers; playing upon a sweet-sounding flute fascinating the minds of all; having broad shoulders with concealed collar-bones; shining with armlets round his mighty arms; wearing a garland of sylvan flowers with the humming sound of hovering black-bees (madly) desirous of its fragrance; with the refulgent Kaustubha gem in the ornament round his neck, which was like a conch; with a shapely chin and shining with lips red like the Biṃbī fruit; with a full-moon-like face beaming with a slight white smile; having an excellent beautiful nose shapely like sesamum flower; having crocodile-shaped ear-rings illuminating his symmetrical ears; adorned with ear-ornaments like a bunch of variegated flowers shining above his ears; the beauty of whose cheeks is enhanced by the moon-ligḥt-like lustre of even-shaped tiny teeth; whose eyes are beautiful with reddish comers and longish like the petals of a lotus; his forehead broad and high and eyebrows (curved) like the bow of the god of love; with hair on the head curly, fine, black, glossy and hence attractive (to the mind); who is wearing on his head a crown richly set with excellent jewels of various kinds; looking at his delighted people (devotees) with affectionate glance and with love.

28-33a. One should meditate upon Kṛṣṇa of the above description and contemplate Rādhā on his left side—Rādhā with two hands, complexion fair like gold, wearing a clean garment of reddish-yellow colour; with refulgent ornaments, (ear-rings) set with excellent jewels adorn

ing her symmetrical ears; having a nose like (the beak of) a parrot; young in age (below fifteen years); with eyes like the young one of a deer; with plump, protruding thick breasts; with a slender waist and big buttocks; adorned with a girdle set with jewels; beautified with various heavenly (or brilliant) ornaments; with her face like a full-blown lotus, beaming with smile; whose excellent hands are shining by gem-set rings, armlets and bangles etc. (all set with jewels); whose lotus-feet are adorned with tingling anklets and Haṃsūkas (an ornament for the ankles shaped like a goose’s foot); on whose broad forehead are shining a Tilaka mark of saffron and an ornament of the forehead; with lips (red) like a Bimba fruit; with excellent cheeks; with her braids of hair decorated with jasmine flowers; gazing with love at the Lord; holding a lotus in her hand.

33b. After having meditated upon Rādhikā of the above description, one should worship the Lord along with her.

[1]: [1] : nārāyāṇāya vidmahe, vāsudevāya dhīmahi / tanno viṣṇuḥ pracodayāt //

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