Skandapurana 2.2.47
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The sages said:
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“O Blessed One, knower of all scriptures, the supreme marvel has been heard:
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The sin-destroying greatness of the Blessed One consisting of festival processions.
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Tell us, then, how the god is worshipped by seekers of desires as the bestower of all desires,
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And how he bestows prosperity through the worship of prosperity.”
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Jaimini said:
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“All manifestations in this moving and unmoving world belong to Viṣṇu;
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He alone is the Supreme Lord, both the giver of prosperity and prosperity itself.
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In whatever manner a man serves him, he becomes accordingly;
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The extent of his majesty cannot be measured.
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In whatever manner one worships him, accordingly indeed one obtains the fruit.
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That wooden [form] is indeed the single path to the four [aims of life], dharma and the rest.
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The path of dharma is dense, obstructed by numerous scriptures;
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no one at all is capable of determining its truth, O best of brahmins.
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Wealth and pleasure, having their root in it, thus always have coarse courses.
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The Lord effortlessly causes these three to prosper.
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For dharma is the Lord Viṣṇu, and this world is rooted in dharma;
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and Janārdana is the sovereign lord of both dharma and the world.
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He whose devotion is firmly established in him who consists of the aims of life,
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his soul contented with all desires, neither grieves nor craves.
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When worshipped in the form of Indra, he gives sovereignty over the three worlds;
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meditated upon in the form of Dhātṛ, Hari increases one's lineage.
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In the form of Sanatkumāra, he bestows a long life;
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meditated upon in the form of Pṛthu, he indeed grants abundance of livelihood.
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Worshipped as Bṛhaspati, he grants the fruit of the Gaṅgā and other sacred fords;
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meditated upon in the form of the Sun, he dispels inner darkness.
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Worshipped as the Moon, he would grant incomparable good fortune;
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[one becomes] a knower of the truth of the eighteen sciences, meditating [on him] as the Lord of Speech.
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He, the eternal one, gives the fruit of the horse sacrifice and other rites;
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this deity composed of the universe, meditated upon in the form of the Lord of Sacrifice,
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[and] contemplated in the form of Kubera, would grant matchless prosperity.
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Thus this ocean of compassion, dwelling on that Nīlācala,
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has an illusory wooden body in order to show grace to the wretched and the helpless.
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Go there, O brahmins, and dwell [there] with concentrated minds!
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Take refuge in that pair of lotus feet of the Lord of Śrī!
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If you desire eternal enjoyments of this world and the next,
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and liberation [consisting of] absolute solitude at the end, obtain it there as you wish!
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Thus ends the forty-seventh chapter in the Puruṣottamakṣetramāhātmya of the second [section], the Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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