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For the advancement of the supernatural faculty where an awakening as ‘All this is One Supreme Siva’(all this is not different from Siva) arises. On reaching ‘Bodheswara Giri’ (Bodheswara mountain) in the course of the pilgrimage.
O Dear! the prime awakening arises only from the plunge in the sacred lake. It is established in the scriptures that one attains emancipation from the sacred dip in the Tirthas (sacred places). |
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The sacred practice of bath and charity on the Mukuta Tirtha of Hara is auspicious and that visit to ‘Bodheswara’ is special from the other sacred places. On the foot of ‘Bodheswara Giri’ are present thousands of gods, demons and ‘Gandharvas’ (demigods regarded as the singers of gods) who along with seven sages and great serpents here worship me always for the complete attainment of the knowledge of Sivatva (the Supreme Reality). After gratifying Bodheswara, one should move from there very slowly. After that one should take resort to the lotus feet of Narayana. There, after performing the bath, worship and the eulogy, a worthy Brahmana should abandon the club and the slippers after consecrating them with the ‘mantras’ (sacred prayers) for the successful accomplishment of the journey. After listening to the boon, “Attain that every position to which have gone the gods, the lords of the three worlds, thousand times” and after attaining the boon from Narayana, one should move to one’s resort. After seeing Bodheswar Giri, one should go to the hermitage of Vasistha. |
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All the sins vanish and the infirmity of the world (mundane life) also disappears, wisdom increases and the speech gets pace (eloquence) from the ‘darsana’ of the hermitage of Vasistha. Because of the practising of penance by the sage Vasistha, that place from where pace of speech, wisdom and the efficacy of speech arises, is even today famous as ‘Vacsiddhi’ due to its glory. All that, the bath, charity and the prayers in the vicinity of ‘Vaygatigrama’ undoubtedly becomes eternal. The state of supernatural qualities which accrues due to coming out of ‘Hansadwara’ and also due to alighting from the Bodheswara Giri, the firmness of that for the enlightened results from going to Vaggati also.
In Kali, the descent from ‘Bodheswara’ and the passing through the ‘Hansadwara’ grants the path to salvation due to the knowledge of Supreme Siva. After worshipping the hermitage of Vasistha, famous by the name ‘Vaggati’, then going to the region of ‘Kaksyasara’, one should gratify the Lord Ganapati with various eatables and the bites of meat etc. Thereafter propitiating one’s own favourite deity (goddess) and thinking of going according to one’s desire, one should proceed in the desired manner according to the prescribed method(rites). I have told you about ‘Mukuta Tirtha’ of ‘Hara’, the divine lake of Uttaramanasa, which grants the way to salvation, |
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