Agnipurana 172
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172.1
Puṣkara said: / When people's minds turn toward adultery, taking others' wealth, harming living beings, and the like, / then praise [of God] is the expiation:
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'To Viṣṇu, to Viṣṇu, ever to Viṣṇu, to Viṣṇu, salutations! / I bow to Viṣṇu, who dwells in the heart, the destination of ego, Hari;
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the Lord residing in the heart, unmanifest, infinite, unconquered, / Viṣṇu, praised by all without remainder, without beginning or end, the all-pervading.
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Because Viṣṇu is present in my heart, because Viṣṇu is present in my intellect, / because Viṣṇu is within my ego, and because Viṣṇu dwells within me,
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and manifests as the action of the immovable and the moving, / may that sin come to destruction when he is merely meditated upon!
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Meditation upon whom takes away sin, and who is seen in a dream through deep contemplation— / to that Upendra, Viṣṇu, the remover of the distress of those who bow, to Hari;
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in this unsupported world sinking down into darkness, / to Viṣṇu, the supporting hand, higher than the highest, I bow.
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O Sovereign of all lords, O omnipresent one, O Supreme Self, O Adhokṣaja, / O Hṛṣīkeśa, O Hṛṣīkeśa, O Hṛṣīkeśa, salutations to you!
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O Nṛsiṃha, O Infinite One, O Govinda, O source of all beings, O Keśava!
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1 'viṣṇave viṣṇave iti' in ja and ña.
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pacify what was wrongly spoken, wrongly done, or thought, O destroyer of sin! Salutations to you!
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Whatever evil was conceived by me, acting under the control of my own mind— / that terrible, great deed that should not be done—bring it to peace, O Keśava!
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O Deity of the brāhmaṇas, O Govinda, devoted to the ultimate truth, / O Lord of the world, O sustainer of the world, pacify my sin, O Acyuta!
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Whatever sin has been committed unknowingly by body, mind, or speech / in the afternoon, in the evening, at midday, or at night,
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or knowingly, O Hṛṣīkeśa, O lotus-eyed one, O Mādhava— / by the utterance of these three names, even in a dream, may it go to its destruction!
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O Hṛṣīkeśa, O lotus-eyed one, O Mādhava, / pacify today my bodily sin, and my sin committed by speech, O Mādhava!
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Whatever sin I have committed today through body, mind, or speech, / while eating, sleeping, standing, walking, awake, or sitting,
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whether very minor or gross, leading to evil wombs or to hell— / may all that go to pacification through the recitation of Vāsudeva's names!
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The Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode, that which is supremely pure— / when that Viṣṇu is proclaimed, may whatever sin there is perish!
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Having attained which the wise never return, devoid of smell, touch, and the rest— / may that state of Viṣṇu pacify all sin!'
172.19
Whoever recites or even listens to this hymn that destroys sin
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1 'praśamātyarthamiti' in kha, gha, and ja.
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2 'asminniti' in gha.
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[Variant reading:] 3 ‘sarvaṃ gamayatvagham’ in manuscript jha.
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[Variant reading:] 4 ‘yaḥ paṭecchraddhayā naraḥ’ in manuscripts ja and jha; ‘yaḥ paṭhecchṛṇuyānnaraḥ’ in manuscript ña.
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he is liberated from sins committed—bodily, mental, or produced by speech.
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From all sins, planetary afflictions, and the like, he goes to the supreme abode of Viṣṇu. / Therefore, when a sin is committed, this praise, which destroys all sin, is to be recited.
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For hosts of sins, expiation by means of praise is best for one performing votive observances. / Through expiations, recitations of praise, and votive observances, a grave sin is destroyed.
172.22
Then those rites should be performed for complete success, indeed for worldly enjoyment and liberation. //22
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Thus ends the hundred and seventy-second chapter, titled ‘The Praise That Destroys Sins’, in the context of expiation for all sins, in the Mahāpurāṇa spoken by Agni.
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Now begins the hundred and seventy-third chapter.
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[Topic:] Expiation.
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