{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk09ch45.htm","path":"hin/db/bk09ch45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk09ch45.htm","text":"THE NINTH BOOK\nChapter XLV\nOn the anecdote of Daksin\u00e2\n1-63. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- The excellent, most sweet stories of Sv\u00e2h\u00e2 and Svadh\u00e2 are told; now I will tell you the story of Daksin\u00e2; hear attentively. In early days, in the region of Goloka, there was a good-natured Gop\u00ee named Sus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2, beautiful, R\u00e2dh\u00e2\u2019s companion and very dear to S\u2019r\u00ee Hari. She was fortunate, respected, beautiful, lovely, prosperous, with good teeth, learned, well qualified and of exquisitely handsome form. Her whole body was tender and lovely like Kal\u00e2vat\u00ee (one versed in 64 arts; moon). She was beautiful and her eyes were like water lilies. Her hips were good and spacious; Her breasts were full; she was Shy\u00e2m\u00e2 (a kind of women having colour like melted gold; body being hot in cold and cool in summer; of youthful beauty); as well She was of the Nyagrodha class of women (an excellent woman. Stanau Sukathinau Yasy\u00e2 Nitambe cha Vis\u2019\u00e2lat\u00e2. Madhye Ks\u00een\u00e2 bhavedy\u00e2 S\u00e2nyagrodha parimandal\u00e2). Always a smile sweetened Her face; and that looked always gracious. Her whole body was covered with jewel ornaments. Her colour was white like the white champakas. Her lips were red like the Bimba fruits; Her eyes were like those of a deer.\nSus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2 was very clever in amorous sciences. Her gait was like a swan. She was specially versed in what is called Prema Bhakti (love towards God). So She was the dearest lady of S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna. And She was of intense emotional feelings. She knows all the sentiments of love; she was witty, humorous, and ardent for the love of S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna, the Lord of the R\u00e2sa circle. She sat by the left side of S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna in the presence of R\u00e2dh\u00e2. S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna, then cast His glance on R\u00e2dh\u00e2, the Chief of the Gop\u00ees and hung down His head through fear. R\u00e2dh\u00e2\u2019s face turned red; the two eyes looked like red lilies; all Her bodies began to quiver out of anger and Her lips began to shake. Seeing that state of R\u00e2dh\u00e2, Bhagav\u00e2n S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna disappeared, fearing that a quarrel might ensue. Sus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2 and other Gop\u00ees seeing that the peaceful Krisna of Sattv\u00e2 Guna and of lovely form had disappeared, began to tremble with fear. Then one lakh Koti\nGop\u00ees seeing Krisna absent and R\u00e2dh\u00e2 angry, became very much afraid and bowing their heads down with devotion and with folded palms began to say frequently, \u201cR\u00e2dhe! Protect us, protect us,\u201d and they took shelter at Her feet. O N\u00e2rada! Three lakh Gopas also including Sud\u00e2m\u00e2 and others took shelter at the lotus feet of S\u2019r\u00ee R\u00e2dh\u00e2 out of fear. Seeing, then, Krisna absent and Her companion Sus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2 running away, R\u00e2dh\u00e2 cursed her thus :-- \u201cIf Sus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2 comes again to this Goloka, she will be reduced to ashes.\u201d Thus cursing Her companion Sus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2 out of anger, R\u00e2dh\u00e2, the Darling of the Deva of the Devas, and the Lady of the R\u00e2sa circle went to the R\u00e2sa circle and called on Krisna, the Lord of the same. Not being able to find out S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna, a minute appeared a yuga to Her and she began to say :-- \u201cO Lord of Pr\u00e2nas! O Dearer than My life! O Presiding Deity of my life! O Krisna! My life seems to depart from Thy absence! Come quickly and show Thyself to me. O Lord! It is through the favour of one\u2019s husband that the pride of women gets increased day by day. Women\u2019s safeguards of happiness are their husbands. Therefore women, who are helpless creatures, ought always to serve their husbands according to Dharma. The husband is the wife\u2019s friend, presiding deity and the sole refuge and the chief wealth. It is through husbands that women derive their pleasures, enjoyments, Dharma, happiness, peace and contentment. If husbands are respected, wives are respected and if husbands are dishonoured, women are dishonoured too. The husband is the highest thing to a woman. He is the highest friend. There is no better friend than him. The husband is called Bhart\u00e2 because he supports his wife; he is called Pati, because he preserves her; he is called S\u2019v\u00e2m\u00ee, because he is the master of her body; he is called K\u00e2nt\u00e2 because he bestows the desired things to her; he is called Bandhu, because he increases her happiness; he is called Priya, because he gives pleasure to her; he is called Is\u2019a, because he bestows prosperity on her; he is called Pr\u00e2nes\u2019vara, because he is the lord of her Pr\u00e2na; and he is called Ramana, because he gives enjoyment to her. There is no other thing dearer than husband. The son is born of the husband; hence the son is so dear. The husband is dearer to a family woman than one hundred sons. Those who are born in impure families, cannot know what substance a husband is made up of. Taking Baths in all the T\u00eerthas, giving Daksin\u00e2s in all the Yaj\u00f1as (sacrifice), circumambulating round the whole earth, performing all austerities, observing all vows, making all great gifts, holy fastings, all that are dictated in the S\u2019\u00e2stras, serving the Guru, the Br\u00e2hmanas and the Devas all cannot compare to even one sixteenth part with serving faithfully the feet of the husband. The husband is the highest; higher than the Spiritual Teacher (Guru),\nhigher than the Br\u00e2hmanas, higher than all the Devas. As to man, the Spiritual Teacher who imparts the Spiritual Knowledge is the Best and Supreme, so to the women their husbands are the best of all. Oh! I am not able to realise the glory of my Dearest, by Whose favour I am the Sole Ruler of one lakh Koti Gop\u00ees, one lakh Koti Gopas, innumerable Br\u00e2hmandas, and all the things thereof, and all the lokas (regions) from Bhu (earth) to Goloka. Oh! The womanly nature is insurmountable.\u201d Thus saying, R\u00e2dhik\u00e2 began to meditate with devotion on S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna. Tears began to flow incessantly from Her eyes. She exclaimed, \u201cO Lord! O Lord! O Ramana! Shew Thyself to me. I am very much weak and distressed from Thy bereavement.\u201d Now the Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee, driven out from Goloka; practised Tapasy\u00e2 for a long time when She entered into the body of Kamal\u00e2. The Devas, on the other hand, performed a very difficult Yaj\u00f1a; but they could not derive any fruit therefrom. So they went to Brahm\u00e2, becoming very sad. Hearing them, Brahm\u00e2 meditated on Visnu for a long time with devotion. At last Visnu gave Him a reply. Visnu got out of the body of Mah\u00e2 Laksm\u00ee a Martya Laksm\u00ee (Laksm\u00ee of the earth) and gave Her Daksin\u00e2 to Brahm\u00e2.Then with a view to yield to the Devas the as a fruits of their Karmas, Brahm\u00e2 made over to the Yaj\u00f1a Deva (the Deva presiding the sacrifice) the Dev\u00ee Daksin\u00e2, offered by N\u00e2r\u00e2yana. Yaj\u00f1a Deva, then, worshipped Her duly and recited hymns to Her with great joy. Her colour was like melted gold; her lustre equalled koti Moons; very lovely, beautiful, fascinating; face resembling water lilies, of a gentle body; with eyes like Padm\u00e2 Pal\u00e2sa, born of the body of Laksm\u00ee, worshipped by Brahm\u00e2, wearing celestial silken garments, her lips resembling like Bimba fruits, chaste, handsome; her braid of hair surrounded by M\u00e2lat\u00ee garlands; with a sweet smiling face, ornamented with jewel ornaments, well dressed, bathed, enchanting the minds of the Munis, below the hair of her forehead the dot of musk and Sind\u00fbra scented with sandalpaste, of spacious hips, with full breasts, smitten by the arrows of K\u00e2ma Deva (the God of Love). Such was the Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee. Seeing Her, the Yaj\u00f1a Deva fainted. At last he married her according to due rites and ceremonies. Taking her to a solitary place, he enjoyed her for full divine one hundred years with great joy like Laksm\u00ee N\u00e2r\u00e2yana. Gradually then Daksin\u00e2 became pregnant. She remained so for twelve divine years. Then she duly delivered a nice son as the fruit of Karma. When any Karma becomes complete, this son delivers the fruits of that Karma. Yaj\u00f1a Deva with His wife Daksin\u00e2 and the above named Karmaphala, the bestower of the fruits of actions, gives the desired fruits to\nall their sacrificial acts and Karmas. So the Pundits, the knowers of the Vedas, say. Really he, henceforth, began to give fruits to all the persons of their acts, with his wife Daksin\u00e2 and son, the bestower of the fruits of the actions. The Devas were all satisfied at this and went away respectively to their own abodes. Therefore, the man who performs Karmas, generally known as Karma Kartas, should pay the Daksin\u00e2 (the Sacrificial fee) and so he completes at once his actions. It is stated in the Vedas, that no sooner the Karma Karta pays the Daksin\u00e2, than he obtains the fruits of his Karmas at once. In case the Karma Karta, after he has completed his acts, does not pay either through bad luck or through ignorance, any Daksin\u00e2 to the Br\u00e2hmanas, its amount is doubled if a Muh\u00fbrta passes away and if one night elapses, its amount is increased, to one hundred times. If three nights pass away, and the Daksin\u00e2 not paid, the amount last brought forward, is increased again to hundred times; if a week passes, the last amount is doubled, and if one month passes away, the Daksin\u00e2 is multiplied to one lakh times. If one year passes away, that is increased to ten millions of times and the Karma, also, bears no fruit. Such a Karma Karta is known as taking away unfairly a Br\u00e2hmana\u2019s property and is regarded as impure. He has no right to any further actions. For that sin, he becomes a pauper and diseased. Laksm\u00ee Dev\u00ee goes away from his house, leaves him, cursing him severely. So much so that the Pitris do not accept the S\u2019r\u00e2dh, Tarpanam offered by that wretched fellow. So the Devas do not accept his worship, nor the Fire accepts the oblations poured by him. If the person that performs sacrifices does not pay the sacrificial fee that he resolves to pay and he who accepts the offer does not demand the sum, both of them go to hell. But if the performer of the sacrifices does not pay when the priests demand the fee, then the Yajam\u00e2na (the performer of the sacrifices) only falls down to hell as the jar, severed from the rope, falls down. The Yajam\u00e2na (pupil) is denominated as a Brahm\u00e2svapah\u00e2r\u00ee (one who robs a Br\u00e2hmana\u2019s property); he goes ultimately to the Kumbh\u00eep\u00e2ka hell. There he remains for one lakh years punished and threatened by Yama\u2019s messengers. He is then reborn as a Ch\u00e2nd\u00e2la, poor and diseased. So much so that his seven generations above and his seven\ngenerations below go to hell.\n64-65. O N\u00e2rada! Thus I have narrated to you the story of Daksin\u00e2. What more do you want to hear? Say. N\u00e2rada said :-- \u201cO Best of Munis! Who bears the fruits of that Karma where no Daksin\u00e2 is paid. Describe the method of worship that was offered to Daksin\u00e2 by Yaj\u00f1a Deva.\u201d N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- Where do you find the fruit of any sacrifice without Daksin\u00e2? (i.e., nowhere.) That Karma only gets\nfruits where Daksin\u00e2s are paid. And the fruits of the acts void of any Daksin\u00e2, Bali who lives in the P\u00e2t\u00e2la only enjoys; and no one else.\n66-71. For, in olden times, it was ordained by V\u00e2mana Deva that those fruits would go to the king Vali. All those that pertain to S\u2019r\u00e2dh not sanctioned by the Vedas, the charities made without any regard or faith, the worship offered by a Br\u00e2hmin who is the husband of a Vrisala (an unmarried girl twelve years in whom menstruation has commenced), the fruits of sacrifices done by an impure Br\u00e2hmana (a Br\u00e2hmana who fails in his duties), the worship offered by impure persons, and the acts of a man devoid of any devotion to his Guru, all these are reserved for the king Bali. He enjoys the fruits of all these. O Child! I am now telling you the Dhy\u00e2n Stotra, and the method of worship as per Kanva S\u2019\u00e2kh\u00e2 of Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee. Hear. When Yaj\u00f1a Deva, in ancient times got Daksin\u00e2, skillful in action, he was very much fascinated by her appearance and being love-stricken, began to praise her :-- \u201cO Beautiful One! You were before the chief of the Gop\u00ees in Goloka. You were like R\u00e2dh\u00e2; you were Her companion; and you were loved by Sr\u00ee R\u00e2dh\u00e2, the beloved of S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna.\n72-97. In the R\u00e2sa circle, on the Full Moon night in the month of K\u00e2rtik, in the great festival of R\u00e2dh\u00e2, you appeared from the right shoulder of Laksm\u00ee; hence you were named Daksin\u00e2. O Beautiful One! You were of good nature before; hence your name was Sus\u2019\u00eel\u00e2. Next you turned due to R\u00e2dh\u00e2's curse, into Daksin\u00e2. It is to my great good luck that you were dislodged from Goloka and have come here. O highly fortunate One! Now have mercy on me and accept me as your husband. O Dev\u00ee! You give to all the doers of actions, the fruits of their works. Without you, their Karmas bear no fruit. So much so, if you be not present in their action the works never shine forth in brilliant glory. Without Thee, neither Brahm\u00e2, nor Visnu nor Mahes\u2019a nor the Regents of the quarters, the ten Dikp\u00e2las, can award the fruits of actions. Brahm\u00e2 is the incarnate of Karma. Mahes\u2019vara is the incarnate of the fruits of Karmas; and I Visnu myself is the incarnate of Yaj\u00f1as. But Thou art the Essence of all. Thou art the Par\u00e2 Prakriti, without any attributes, the Par\u00e2 Brahm\u00e2 incarnate, the bestower of the fruits of action. Bhagav\u00e2n S\u2019r\u00ee Krisna cannot award the fruits of actions without Thee. O Beloved! In every birth let Thou be my S\u2019akti. O Thou with excellent face! Without Thee, I am unable to finish well any Karma.\u201d O N\u00e2rada! Thus praising Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee, Yaj\u00f1a Deva stood before Her. She, born from the shoulder of Laksm\u00ee, became pleased with His Stotra and accepted Him for Her bridegroom. If anybody recites this Daksin\u00e2 stotra during sacrifice, he gets all the results thereof.\nIf anybody recites this stotra in the R\u00e2jas\u00fbya sacrifice, V\u00e2japaya, Gomedha (cow sacrifice) Naramedha (man sacrifice), As\u2019vamedha (horse sacrifice), L\u00e2ngala Sacrifice, Visnu Yaj\u00f1a tending to increase one\u2019s fame, in the act of giving over wealth or pieces of lands, digging tanks or wells, or giving fruits, in Gaja medha (elephant sacrifice), in Loha Yaj\u00f1a (iron sacrifice), Svarna Yaj\u00f1a (gold sacrifice), Ratna Yaj\u00f1a (making over jewels in sacrifices), T\u00e2mra Yaj\u00f1a (copper), S\u2019iva Yaj\u00f1a, Rudra Yaj\u00f1a, S\u2019akra Yaj\u00f1a, Bandhuka Yaj\u00f1a, Varuna Yaj\u00f1a (for rains), Kandaka Yaj\u00f1a, for crushing the enemies, S\u2019uchi Yaj\u00f1a, Dharma Yaj\u00f1a, P\u00e2pa mochana Yaj\u00f1a, Brahm\u00e2n\u00ee Karma Yaj\u00f1a, the auspicious Prakriti Y\u00e2ga, sacrifices, his work is achieved then without any hitch or obstacle. There is no doubt in this. The stotra, thus, is mentioned now; hear about the Dhy\u00e2nam and the method of worship. First of all, one should worship in the S\u2019\u00e2lagr\u00e2ma stone, or in an earthen jar (Ghata) Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee. The Dhy\u00e2nam runs thus :-- \u201cO Daksin\u00e2! Thou art sprung from the right shoulder of Laksm\u00ee; Thou art a part of Kamal\u00e2; Thou art clever (Daksa) in all the actions and Thou bestowest the fruits of all the actions. Thou art the S\u2019akti of Visnu, Thou art revered, worshipped. Thou bestowest all that is auspicious; Thou art purity; Thou bestowest purity, Thou art good natured. So I meditate on Thee.\u201d Thus meditating, the intelligent one should worship Daksin\u00e2 with the principal mantra. Then with the Vedic Mantras, p\u00e2dyas, etc. (offerings of various sorts) are to be offered. Now the mantra as stated in the Vedas, runs thus :-- \u201cOm S\u2019r\u00eem Kl\u00eem Hr\u00eem Daksin\u00e2yai Sv\u00e2h\u00e2.\u201d With this mantra, all the offerings, such as p\u00e2dyas, arghyas, etc., are to be given, and one should worship, as per rules, Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee with devotion. O N\u00e2rada! Thus I have stated to you the anecdote of Daksin\u00e2. Happiness, pleasure, and the fruits of all karmas are obtained by this. Being engaged in sacrificial acts, in this Bh\u00e2ratavarsa, if one hears attentively this Dhy\u00e2nam of Daksin\u00e2, his sacrifice becomes defectless. So much so that the man who has got no sons gets undoubtedly good and qualified sons; if he has no wife, he gets a best wife, good natured, beautiful, of slender waist, capable to give many sons, sweet speaking, humble, chaste, pure, and Kul\u00eena; if he be void of learning, he gets learning; if he be poor he gets wealth; if he be without any land, he gets land and if he has no attendants, he gets attendants. If a man hears for one month this stotra of Daksin\u00e2 Dev\u00ee, he gets over all difficulties and dangers, bereavements from friends, troubles, inprisonments, and all other calamities.\nHere ends the Forty-fifth Chapter of the Ninth Book on the anecdote of Daksin\u00e2 in the Mah\u00e2 Pur\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 45","type":"page"}