Chapter 9 - Narration of the mention of the pilgrimage

[Note: This page represents a summary English translation of the Dvisāhasrī by Ṭembesvāmī, chapter 9.—In this 9^th chapter he describes (how) He goes to His birth-place, releases the Brahmins—one from the stomach pain as well as the other one afraid of the Yavana and then the holy places.]

09/01-02: Nāmadhāraka spoke: Why does he go to His village? Who are His disciples? What does He then do?

09/03-11 Siddha: As per His commitment^[1] He goes to meet His mother. He has many disciples.(04-06). He reveals His Universal Form to His family (07). His mother is reminded of His being Śrīpāda (in previous incarnation) (08). There is no son like Him and hence He should uplift her (09-10). The mother prays Him to release her from Time, Fate, Action, Lord, Individual Soul, entity and body are the modifications of the Self (11).

09/12-14: Holy Master spoke: The family of a monk crosses the worldly Existence (13). After enjoying prosperity and progeny, she would attain liberation in Vārāṇasī (14).

09/15-16: The Sister spoke: He should uplift her.

09/17-24: Holy Master spoke: The service to the husband is saviour of the women (18). Her husband will become a monk. Because of her previous deeds, she will suffer from Encoderma till she meets Him (19-20). He and his disciple go to river Gautami (21). He frees devotee named Mādhava and goes further. (22) On seeing a Brahmin about to die He asks his disciple to call him (23). The Lord asks him the reason (24).

09/25-30: Brahmin spoke: He suffers from the stomach-pain (26). He can not live without food (27). He believes that this condition may be due to not offering food, snatching morsel of a cow or a Brahmin, blaming parents or the teacher, not worshipping the Lord, kicking out or censuring the Brahmins or eating sweet with the wife avoiding the parents (28-29). He is the burden on the earth (30).

09/31-32AB: Holy Master: He gives him divine medicine (). 09/32CD-34 Meanwhile a Brahmin named Sāyandeva comes from Kānchi to whom He asks to offer him beneficial yet tasty food.

09/35-36: Sāyandeva spoke: The food may cause his death.

09/37-38: Holy Master spoke: He forces him to give him sweet cake (apūpa) and beans.

09/39-53: Sāyandeva spoke: He does as He says and requests Him to accept food at his place (40). The request is granted (41). He and his wife worship the Holy Master in the sequence of the steps of veneration such as, waving the lighted lamps round Him (42-43), washing the lotus-feet (44) and offering food (45). The disease vanishes (46). He worships Lord Viṣṇu (47). Sāyandeva expresses his blessedness (48-49). River Gaṅgā and others removes sins and others, but His vision removes all the three^[2] (50). He has incarnated to protect the righteous ones (51). Sāyandeva informs his problem of serving a Yavan King who kills Brahmins and has called him (52- 53).

09/54-68: Holy Master spoke: The Yavan king would not harm and He will stay there till he comes (55). He goes to Yavana king, but he is frightened to see that a Brahmin kills him. The king presents gifts to him who returns to Him (56-57). The god of death can not hurt a devotee of the Holy Master. What to talk about the Yavan king? (58). The Holy Master assures him to meet after sixteen years and goes to Parlī Vaidyanātha (59). The purpose of His Divine Sports is to provoke the devotion (60-61). His worship washes off the impurities of devotees who attain the favour by meditating on Him and get knowledge of the Self (62-64). The Holy Master moves like a stubborn, a mad and a goblin (65). The glory of the Holy Master makes the mind stable (66). Men can attain Him through easy means (67). One should search for Him with intelligence, etc. but never by inferences (68).

09/69-70: Nāmadhāraka spoke: Why does He disappear? Where do His disciples stay?

09/71-72: Siddha spoke: He stays in the solitude and instructs his disciples.

09/73-75: Duties of celibate: (01) Learn the Vedas after the sacred thread, a girdle and a staff, (02) Performing daily twilight rites, (03) begging alms, (03) Avoiding sleep during the day and (04) Offering sacred gift after the graduation.

09/76: Duties of a house holder: (01) Marrying a girl, (02) Performing houdsehold rites, (03) Feeding dependants, (04) Performing sacrifices and (05) Engaging in the study of the Vedas as well as the Scriptures.

09/77: Duties of a hermit (01) Passing on the wealth to the children, (02) Staying in the forest (with or without the wife), (03) Abandoning the worldly pleasures, (04) Controlling the mind and (05) Eating the unploughed food.

09/78-92: Duties of a monk: (01) Taking permission of the wife for the renunciation, (02) Removing the tuft of hair as well as the sacred thread, (03) Meditating on as well as worshipping the gods, Begging alms, (05) Avoiding to talk with women, etc., (06) Taking bath thrice a day and (07) Wandering in holy places.^[3]

09/93-94AB: While going to Śrīśaila the Holy Master inspires His disciples to go on pilgrimage.

09/94CD-96:^[4] Siddha becomes the disciple of Nṛsiṃhasarasvaī who instructs him the knowledge which he imparts to Nāmadhāraka.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

kṣamāsvārbhabuddhyā mayājāparāddhamiti vyāharantīṃ satīṃ traśatābdaiḥ|
punardarśanaṃ me'stu sānnidhyamamba smṛtāvittha muktvā yayau tāṃ nivartya|| 08/54||

[2]:

gaṅgā pāpaṃ vidhustāpaṃ dainyaṃ kalpatarurharet|
vāyustūlamivaitatte darśanaṃ harati trayam|| 9/50||

[3]:

The text enlists 00 holy places and 00 holy rives in 09/84-90. The rivers are in menstruation period at the end of the summer (92).

[4]:

The verses 09/95-96 are noted by H.H. Ṭembesvāmī himself as interpolated ones.