Chapter 7: Further questions by Vidura
(14) For those who feel
attracted to serve in the dust of His lotusfeet it thus goes without
saying that all misery
finds its end by repeatedly speaking about and hearing of the qualities
of Murâri, Krishna the slayer of Mura.'
Chapter 8: Manifestation of Brahmâ from
Garbhodakasâyî Vishnu
(18) 'Who am I, seated on
top of this lotus? Wherefrom has it originated? There must be something
in the water below. Being present here implies the existence of that
from which it sprouted!'
Chapter 9: Brahmâ's Prayers for Creative Energy
(12)
You're never that much pleased by pompous arrangements with a lot of
paraphernalia of high-class servants who are of worship with hearts
full of all kinds of desires. For You, the variously percieved Unique
and Only Wellwisher, the Supersoul within the living entities, are
there to show all living entities Your causeless mercy and cannot be
achieved by those who settle for what is man-made and temporal [asat].
Chapter 10: Divisions of the Creation
(14) The conditioning [or creation] that took place
because of it is divided in nine according to its material
modifications [or modes: passion, goodness and ignorance],
according to the material qualities of eternal time [movement,
knowledge and inertia], and depending its three types of dissolution
[with time: the ending of humans, of animals and of the inertial realm
of plants and the rest of the universe].
Chapter 11: Division of Time Expanding from the
Atom
(15)
The One [Lord of Time] who differing from all that was created moves by
the name of Eternal Time, who by means of His energy in different ways
brings to life the seeds of creation and who during the day dissipates
the darkness of the living entities, should be offered respect with
attention for all His five different types of years, so that one thus
with one's offerings brings about quality in one's material existence.'
Chapter 12: Creation of the Kumâras and Others
(4) The great self-born
one then created Sanaka, Sananda, Sanâtana and Sanat-kumâra
[the four Kumâras]
who are free from all fruitive action and lifelong celibates ['they
whose seed goes upwards'].
