Skandapurana 5.235

English (machine translation) 5.235

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Brahmā said: / Viṣṇu is the giver of desired objects, and people always take pleasure in what is desired. / Therefore, with all effort, one should abandon that during Cāturmāsya.

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For the pleasure of Nārāyaṇa, that very [gift] is obtained imperishably. / If a mortal gives it up with faith, he becomes the enjoyer of endless fruit.

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From renouncing bronze vessels, one becomes a king on earth. / Eating from a palāśa leaf, one attains the state of Brahman.

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A householder should never eat from a copper vessel. / Especially during Cāturmāsya, he should avoid a copper vessel.

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Eating on arka leaves, one attains incomparable fruit. / One should eat on banyan leaves, especially during Cāturmāsya.

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The use of aśvattha leaves should always be practiced by wise people. / One who eats once a day becomes a king over the entire circle of the earth.

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Likewise, from giving up salt, a man becomes charming. / From renouncing food made of wheat, he becomes beloved by the people.

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During Cāturmāsya, one who eats no vegetables attains a long life. / From renouncing flavours, one has great vitality; from renouncing honey, one has beautiful eyes.

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From giving up mudga beans comes the death of enemies; from cowpeas, great wealth. / From renouncing polished rice, obtaining horses comes to pass during Cāturmāsya.

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From giving up fruit, many sons; from giving up oil, handsome appearance. / From renouncing pigeon peas, one becomes wise, possessing strength and vigour at all times.

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From renouncing venison, one does not see hell. / From giving up wild boar meat, one obtains residence in the world of Brahmā.

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Knowledge comes from renouncing quail meat; from giving up ghee, great happiness. / Having completely given up liquor, liberation is not hard for him to attain.

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A man becomes powerful by giving up gold, and by giving up silver.

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One who completely gives up curd and milk becomes an enjoyer of happiness in Goloka.

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One becomes Brahmā from giving up rice pudding, and Maheśvara from giving up thin gruel; / one becomes Kāmadeva from giving up cakes, and happy from giving up modakas.

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One who gives up the householder's stage of life and observes an outer hermitage / during Cāturmāsya for the pleasure of Hari, does not become an infant in a mother's womb.

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A king comes from giving up black pepper; from giving up dry ginger, a good poet; / from giving up sugar, one becomes honoured by kings.

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From giving up jaggery, great prosperity; likewise from avoiding pomegranate; / from giving up red cloth, one becomes beloved by the people.

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From giving up silk cloth, one attains imperishable heaven. / From giving up food made of black gram and chickpeas, there is no rebirth.

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Black cloth should always be avoided, especially during Cāturmāsya. / Purification from sighting blue cloth comes from seeing the sun.

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From renouncing sandalwood, one attains the realm of the Gandharvas. / From renouncing camphor, one becomes exceedingly wealthy as long as one lives.

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From giving up safflower, one will never see the abode of Yama. / From giving up saffron, a man becomes beloved of kings.

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From renouncing yakṣakardama perfume, one is honoured in the world of Brahmā. / One becomes wise from giving up flowers; from giving up a bed, great happiness.

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He does not suffer separation from his wife during Cāturmāsya, without doubt. / From renouncing falsehood, the door to liberation is opened wide.

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Revealing the secrets of others brings an immediate accumulation of sin. / During Cāturmāsya, while Hari is asleep, one must avoid slandering others.

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Slandering others is a great sin; slandering others is a great danger; / slandering others is a great sorrow; there is no higher sin than it.

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Merely by slandering, one incurs that grave sin; / even one merely hearing it becomes a sinner—none is greater than that.

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From renouncing the grooming of hair, one is freed from the threefold misery. / But he who keeps his nails and hair, especially while Hari is asleep,

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Attains day by day the fruit of bathing in the Gaṅgā.

By all means Viṣṇu alone must be propitiated, who is to be meditated upon by yogins, by the best of all castes; / by Viṣṇu's name one is freed from terrible bondage, and he is especially to be remembered in Cāturmāsya.

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Thus ends the two hundred and thirty-sixth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of Renouncing Desired Objects,' in the dialogue between Brahmā and Nārada, in the Glory of Cāturmāsya, in the episode of Him Who Sleeps upon Śeṣa, in the Glory of the sacred field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses] of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit