{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk09ch31.htm","path":"hin/db/bk09ch31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk09ch31.htm","text":"THE NINTH BOOK\nChapter XXXI\nOn the Yama's giving S\u2019akti Mantra to S\u00e2vitr\u00ee\n1-2. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- O N\u00e2rada! Hearing thus the supreme nature of M\u00fbla Prakriti from Dharmar\u00e2ja Yama, the two eyes of S\u00e2vitr\u00ee were filled with tears of joy and her whole body was filled with a thrill of rapture, joy and ecstacy. She again addressed Yama :-- \u201cO Dharmar\u00e2ja! To sing the glories of M\u00fbla Prakriti is the only means of saving all. This takes away the old age and death of both the speaker and the hearer.\n3-12. This is the Supreme Place of the D\u00e2navas, the Siddhas, the ascetics. This is the Yoga of the Yogins and this is studying the Vedas of the Vaidiks. Nothing can compare even to one sixteenth of the sixteenth parts of the (full) merits of those who are in S\u2019akti\u2019s Service; call it Mukti, immortality, or attaining endless Siddhis, nothing can come to it. O Thou, the foremost of the Knowers of the Vedas! I have heard by and by everything from Thee. Now describe to me how to worship M\u00fbla Prakriti and what are the ends of karmas, auspicious and inauspicious.\u201d Thus saying, the chaste S\u00e2vitr\u00ee bowed down her head and began to praise Yama in stotras according to the Vedas. She said :-- \u201cO Dharmar\u00e2jan! The Sun practised of yore very hard austerities at Puskara and worshipped Dharma. On this, Dharma Himself became born of S\u00fbrya as his son. And Thou art that son of S\u00fbrya, the incarnation of Dharma. So I bow down to Thee. Thou art the Witness of all the J\u00eevas; Thou seest them equally; hence Thy name is Samana. I bow down to Thee. Sometimes Thou by Thy own will takest away the lives of beings. Hence Thy name is Krit\u00e2nta. Obeisance to Thee! Thou holdest the rod to distribute justice and pronounce sentence on them and to destroy the sins of the J\u00eevas; hence Thy name is Dandadhara; so I bow down to Thee. (Note :-- Any J\u00eeva, in course of his travelling towards Mukti, can expect to pass through the stage Yamaship; and if he pleases, he can become a Yama.) At all times Thou destroyest the universe. None can resist Thee. Hence Thou art named K\u00e2la; so obeisance to Thee! Thou art an ascetic, devoted to Brahm\u00e2, self-controlled, and the distributor of the fruits of Karmas to the J\u00eevas; Thou restrainest Thy senses. Hence Thou art called Yama. Therefore I bow down to Thee.\n13-17. Thou art delighted with Thy Own Self; Thou art omniscient; Thou art the Tormentor of the sinners and the Friend of the Virtuous. Hence Thy name is Punya Mitra; so I bow down to Thee. Thou art born as a part of Brahm\u00e2; the fire of Brahm\u00e2 is shining through Thy body. Thou dost meditate on Para Brahm\u00e2, Thou art the Lord. Obeisance to Thee!\u201d O Muni! Thus praising Yama, She bowed down at the feet of Him. Yama gave her the mantra of M\u00fbla Prakriti. How to worship Her and He began to recite the fruition of good Karmas. O N\u00e2rada! He who recites these eight hymns to Yama early in the morning, getting up from his bed, is freed of the fear of death. Rather he becomes freed of all his sins. So much so, that even if he be a veritable awful sinner and if he recites daily with devotion this Yam\u00e2stakam, Yama purifies him thoroughly.\nHere ends the Thirty-first Chapter of the Ninth Book on the Yama\u2019s giving S\u2019akti Mantra to S\u00e2vitr\u00ee in the Mah\u00e2pur\u00e2nam S\u2019r\u00ee Mad Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vy\u00e2sa.","title":"The Devi Bhagavatam: The Ninth Book: Chapter 31","type":"page"}