Skandapurana 2.2.5.28

2.2.5.28

.. jaimini ruvāca .. ..
nirviṇṇacetasau tau tu tyaktvā veśyādisaṃgatim ..
dhyāyaṃtau manasā viṣṇuṃ śuddhāhāravratāvubhau .. 1 ..
kālena kiyatā prāptau nīlādrinilayaṃ hareḥ ..
tīrtharājajale snātvā yathāvadvidhicoditam .. 2 ..
prāsādadvāri tiṣṭhaṃtau sāṣṭāṃgaṃ praṇipatya ca ..
bhagavaṃtaṃ nirīkṣaṃtau nāpaśyatāṃ tadā dvijā .. 3 ..
vivarṇavadanau devamadṛṣṭvā ciṃtayākulau ..
ārabhete hyanaśanaṃ bhagavaddarśanāvadhi .. 4 ..
kīrtayaṃte bhagavato nāma kalmaṣanāśanam ..
tṛtīyasyāṃ triyāmāyāṃ jyotirekamapaśyatām .. 5 ..
trīṇyahāni punastau ca tadopāvasatāṃ sthirau ..
madhye saptamarātrestu bhagavaṃtamapaśyatām .. 6 ..
tridaśānāṃ stutīḥ śrutvā divyajñānau babhūvatuḥ ..
apāstapāpanirmokau sākṣāddevamapaśyatām .. 7 ..
śaṃkhacakragadāpāṇi divyālaṃkārabhūṣitam ..
ratnapādukayoḥ pṛṣṭhe vinyastacaraṇāṃbujam .. 8 ..
vyākośapuṃḍarīkākṣaṃ prasannavadanaṃ vibhum ..
vāmapārśve sthitāṃ lakṣmīṃ vāmenāliṃgya bāhunā .. 9 ..
nāgavallīdalaṃ baddhamādadānaṃ śriyā hṛtam ..
ratnavetrakarāḥ kāścitkāściccāmarapāṇayaḥ .. 2.2.5.10 ..
gaṃdhatailapradīpāstu ratnavartipradīpikāḥ ..
kāściddadhānāḥ svakarairyovanāḍhyāḥ subhūṣitāḥ ..11..
paścādratnamayaṃ chatraṃ bibhratī kācidujjvalā..
dhūpapātraṃ mukhābhyāśe kṛṣṇāgurusudhūpitam .. 12 ..
kāciddadhānā pramlocāṃ hasaṃtī vigrahaśriyā ..
līlālakadṛśā devānanugṛhṇaṃtamagrataḥ .. 13 ..
baddhāṃjalipuṭānnamrakandharānstuvataḥ pṛthak ..
siddhānmunigaṇāndivyānsanakādīnsmitena ca .. 14 ..
nāradādīṃśca gaṃdharvāndivyagānamanoharān ..
dattāvadhānaṃ śravaṇe līlayaivānukampinam..15..
prahlādādīnvaiṣṇavāgryānsvarūpaṃ dhyāyato'grataḥ ..
cittākarṣaṇasaṃlīnāṃ vidadhānaṃ svavigrahe .. 16 ..
vakṣaḥsthalapravilasatkaustubhapratibiṃbitaiḥ ..
devādibhirviśvarūpamūrtteḥ svasyāḥ prakāśakam .. 17 ..
uparyupari divyāyāḥ puṣpavṛṣṭeradhaḥ sthitam ..
śrīsannidhānavigataśriyamapsarasāṃ gaṇam .. .. 18 ..
paśyaṃtaṃ vividhaṃ nityamaṅgahāramanoharam ..
divyalīlāvilāsaṃ taṃ dṛṣṭvā tau dvijabāhujau .. 19 ..
babhūvatuḥ kṣaṇātsarvavidyānāṃ pāragau dvijāḥ ..
triḥ parikramya deveśaṃ kṛtāṃjalipuṭāvubhau ..
sāṣṭāṃgapātapraṇatau tuṣṭuvāte mudānvitau .. 2.2.5.20 ..
.. puṇḍarīka uvāca .. ..
namaste jagadādhāra sargasthityaṃtakāraṇa ..
nārāyaṇa namaste'stu paramātmanparāyaṇa .. 21 ..
paramārthastvamevaiko bhavāpyayavivarjitaḥ ..
nityānandasvarūpaṃ tvāṃ vidanti dhyānacakṣuṣaḥ .. 22 ..
cinmātraṃ jagatāmīśamadhiṣṭhānaṃ parātparam ..
kathaṃ nu mūḍhahṛdayāstvāṃ jānaṃti sunirmalam .. 23 ..
kāmārthalipsāsaṃbhrātacetaso'tyaṃtaduḥkhinaḥ ..
gatāgatapathe śrāṃtāḥ sukhabhājaḥ kadācana .. 24 ..
anukaṃpaya māṃ nātha sudīnaṃ śaraṇāgatam ..
mūḍhaṃ duṣkṛtakarmāṇaṃ patitaṃ bhavasāgare .. 25 ..
ko'nyastvatsadṛśo bandhurbrahmāṃḍe nātha varttate ..
svakarttavyānapekṣo yo dīnānāthadayālukaḥ .. 26 ..
uccāvacabhramādduḥkhaṃ jalayaṃtraghaṭīmiva ..
ajasramadhikarttāraṃ paritrāhi kṛpāṃbudhe .. 27 ..
yogakṣemābhisaṃdhānā ye mūḍhāstvāmupāsate ..
līlāvimuktidaṃ te vai tvanmāyāparimohitāḥ .. 28 .

Jaimini said:
With hearts dispassionate, the two, having abandoned the company of courtesans and the like, / meditating on Viṣṇu with their minds, both observing the vow of pure food, / 1
reached in a short time the abode of Hari on the Blue Mountain. / Having bathed in the waters of the king of sacred fords as prescribed by rule, / 2
standing at the temple gateway and bowing down with all eight limbs, / looking for the Lord, O brahmins, they did not see [him] then. / 3
With pale faces, not seeing the God, distressed with anxiety, / they undertook a fast until they should receive darśana of the Lord. / 4
Praising the sin-destroying name of the Lord, / in the third watch of the night they saw a single light. / 5
Then the two of them, steadfast, fasted for three more days; / in the middle of the seventh night, they saw the Lord. / 6
Hearing the praises of the gods, they acquired divine knowledge; / their slough of sins cast off, they saw the God face to face, / 7
holding conch, discus, and mace in hand, adorned with divine ornaments, / with lotus feet placed on the back of jewel-encrusted sandals, / 8
with eyes like blooming white lotuses, a serene countenance, all-pervading, / embracing with his left arm Lakṣmī who stood at his left side, / 9
taking the prepared betel leaf offered by Śrī. / Some [maidens] held jewelled canes in their hands, others had chowries in hand; / 10
some, rich in youth and well adorned, held with their own hands / lamps of fragrant oil and small lamps with jewelled wicks; / 11
behind [him], a radiant [maiden] held an umbrella made of jewels; / another, holding near his face an incense burner well-perfumed with black aloe, / mocked Pramlocā with the beauty of her form. / Bestowing grace with his playful, curly-haired glance upon the gods before him / 13
who, with hands folded in reverent salutation and necks bowed, praised him individually; / and with a smile upon the divine hosts of perfected ones and sages, Sanaka and the rest; / 14
and upon Nārada and other gandharvas enchanting with divine songs, / lending his ear in listening, compassionate in mere sport; / 15
and upon the foremost Vaiṣṇavas such as Prahlāda meditating upon his true form before him, / absorbing their minds in his own form; / 16
manifesting his universal cosmic form by means of the gods and others / reflected in the Kaustubha jewel gleaming on his chest; / 17
standing beneath a shower of divine flowers raining down from above; / beholding the multitude of apsarases, whose beauty had faded in the presence of Śrī, / 18
[performing] various, ever-alluring movements of the limbs; / having seen him of divine playful sports, the two, the brahmin and the kṣatriya, / 19
became in an instant masters of all branches of learning, O brahmins. / Having circumambulated the Lord of gods three times, both with folded hands, / bowing with prostration of all eight limbs, they praised him, filled with joy. / 20
Puṇḍarīka said:
Salutations to you, support of the universe, cause of creation, maintenance, and destruction! / O Nārāyaṇa, salutations to you, Supreme Self, supreme refuge! / 21
You alone are the ultimate reality, free from arising and passing away; / those endowed with the eye of meditation know you to be the embodiment of eternal bliss. / 22
You are pure consciousness, Lord of the worlds, the foundation, higher than the highest; / how indeed can those of foolish heart know you, the utterly pure? / 23
Their minds bewildered by the craving for desires and wealth, intensely miserable, / weary on the path of coming and going—when do they ever partake of happiness? / 24
Take pity on me, O Lord, who am wretched, who have sought refuge, / foolish, a performer of evil deeds, fallen into the ocean of worldly existence. / 25
What other kinsman like you exists in the cosmic egg, O Lord, / who, regardless of his own obligations, is compassionate toward the wretched and shelterless? / 26
Save [me], O ocean of mercy, who am continually caused / to experience suffering due to wandering through high and low, like a bucket on a waterwheel! / 27
Those fools who worship you with an eye to acquisition and preservation, / though you bestow effortless liberation, are utterly deluded by your māyā. / 28