Prescribed Duties for Mankind

1. The History of the Life of Ajāmila
2. Ajāmila Delivered by the Viṣṇudūtas
3. Yamarāja Instructs His Messengers
4. The Haṁsa-guhya Prayers
5. Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa
6. The Progeny of the Daughters of Dakṣa
7. Indra Offends His Spiritual Master, Bṛhaspati
8. The Nārāyaṇa-kavaca Shield
9. Appearance of the Demon Vṛtrāsura
10. The Battle Between the Demigods and Vṛtrāsura
11. The Transcendental Qualities of Vṛtrāsura
12. Vṛtrāsura's Glorious Death
13. King Indra Afflicted by Sinful Reaction
14. King Citraketu's Lamentation
15. The Saints Nārada and Aṅgirā Instruct King Citraketu
16. King Citraketu Meets the Supreme Lord
17. Mother Pārvatī Curses Citraketu
18. Diti Vows to Kill King Indra
19. Performing the Puṁsavana Ritualistic Ceremony

<title h4>The History of the Life of Ajāmila</title>

• The Path Beyond the Highest Planet
• Devotees Want to Save Their Fellow Men
• Proper Atonement Counteracts Impious Deeds
• Atonement is Compared to the Bathing of an Elephant
• A Cure for the Material Disease
• How One Can Uproot Sinful Desires
• Bhakti: The Best Thing in This World
• Devotees Never Even Dream of Death
• The Story of the Fallen Ajāmila
• Ajāmila’s Tenth and Special Son
• Ajāmila Chants at the Time of Death
• The Servants of Death Surprised
• God’s Messengers Intervene
• Real Religion Exists Eternally
• How the Supreme Lord Controls the Universe
• Nature and God Witness Our Activities
• Karma in Past and Future Lives
• Yamarāja, the Lord of Death
• The Lonely Struggle for Existence
• The Living Entity Traps Himself
• The Roots of Reincarnation
• A Prostitute Corrupts Ajāmila
• Servants of Death Give Their Verdict

<title h4>Ajāmila Delivered by the Viṣṇudūtas</title>

• Needless Punishment of Sinless Persons
• The Duty of Government
• Millions of Lifetimes Can Be Purified by Chanting
• Chanting Delivers Even Thieves, Murderers and Fornicators
• Chanting Absolves One from Hell
• The Lord’s Name Burns to Ashes All Sinful Reaction
• Death’s Ropes Are Cut
• Ajāmila Regrets His Past Sinful Life
• Why He Was Saved from Hellish Worlds
• We Must All Have His Determination
• Ajāmila Goes to Hardwar
• Ajāmila Regains His Spiritual Body
• How to Get Free from Material Bondage

<title h4>Yamarāja Instructs His Messengers</title>

• The Messengers of Death Had Never Been Defeated
• Justice in the Universe
• Viṣṇu’s Mysterious Messengers
• Creation Has Only One Master
• How God Controls Men
• Only the Devotees Know the Lord
• The Lord’s Servants Are Almost as Qualified as He is
• Surrender to Kṛṣṇa is the Real Religion
• Chanting is Always Beneficial
• The Secret Religion of the Twelve Mahājanas
• Yamarāja Punishes Materialists
• The Lord of Death Begs Pardon
• Chanting Completes All Purification the Servants of Death Fear Devotees

<title h4>The Hamsa-Guhya Prayers Offered to the Lord by Prajāpati Dakṣa</title>

• The Anger of the Pracetās After Long Austerities
• Soma Pleads for the Life of the Trees
• The Lord of Lords Provides Food for Everyone
• A Good King Protects All Forms of Life
• The Body is a Temple
• Dakṣa is Born to Populate the Universe
• Dakṣa Retires for Austerities
• The Lord is Invisible to Material Eyes
• The Trance of God Realization
• How Yogīs Find the Supersoul
• The Person Behind Everything
• Learned Men Forget Their Souls for Philosophy
• The Common Basis for All Philosophies
• The Lord Descends to Favor the Devotees
• Only Kṛṣṇa is to Be Worshiped
• The Lord, Riding on Garuda, Appears to Dakṣa
• Dakṣa Congratulated
• How to See God's Impersonal Form
• Before the Creation
• A Wife for Dakṣa

<title h4>Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa</title>

• The Haryasvas Perform Austerities
• Nārada Muni’s Allegory
• “The Earth”
• “The One Male”
• “The Hole”
• “The Prostitute”
• “The Husband”
• “The River”
• “The House”
• “The Swan”
• “The Razors and Thunderbolts”
• “The Father”
• The Haryasvas Are Convinced by Nārada
• The Goodness of Nārada Muni
• The Savalāsvas Perform Austerities
• Nārada Preaches Again
• The Savalāsvas Follow Their Brothers
• Dakṣa’s Shortsightedness in Anger
• A Brahmāna's Debts
• Nārada is Accused by Dakṣa
• Renunciation Requires Knowledge
• Dakṣa’s False Arguments
• How Nārada Was Both Cursed and Favored by Dakṣa

<title h4>The Progeny of the Daughters of Dakṣa</title>

• Dakṣa Begets Sixty Daughters
• Upendra Born of Marutvati
• Viśvakarmā Born of Āṅgirasī
• Dakṣa Curses the Moon-god
• Description of the Descendants of Aditi

<title h4>Indra Offends His Spiritual Master, Bṛhaspati</title>

• Bṛhaspati Rejects the Demigods
• Indra Condemns His Own Opulence
• Those Who Mislead People Go to Hell
• The Demons Declare War Against the Demigods
• The Demigods Approach Visvarūpa
• The Spiritual Master Personifies the Vedas
• Visvarūpa Becomes the Priest of the Demigods
• Visvarūpa Composes a Protective Prayer

<title h4>The Nārāyana-kavaca Shield</title>

• Explanation of the Viṣṇu Mantra Armor
• Prayers to Vāmana and Nṛsṁhadeva
• Prayers to Hayagrīva, Nārada and Kūrma
• Prayers to Vyāsa, Buddha and Kalki
• Prayer to the Sudarśana Cakra
• Advanced Souls See Unity in Diversity
• Nārāyana-kavaca Protects One from Danger

<title h4>Appearance of the Demon Vṛtrāsura</title>

• Visvarūpa Offers Oblations to the Demons
• Indra Accepts Sinful Reactions
• Description of Vṛtrāsura
• Prayers of the Demigods to Nārāyana
• The Lord Accepts Various Transcendental Bodies
• Lord Hari Appears Before the Demigods
• All Contradictions Are Reconciled in the Lord
• Devotees Are the Real Friends of Everyone
• The Demigods Take Shelter at the Lord’s Lotus Feet
• The Lord Replies to the Demigods
• A Pure Devotee is Like an Expert Physician

<title h4>The Battle Between the Demigods and Vṛtrāsura</title>

• The Demigods Ask Dadhīci for His Body
• The Body Must Be Engaged for the Benefit of Others
• Indra Rides Off to Kill Vṛtrāsura
• The Demons Resist the Armies of Indra
• Vṛtrāsura Addresses the Heroes of the Demons

<title h4>The Transcendental Qualities of Vṛtrāsura</title>

• Vṛtrāsura Rebukes the Demigods
• The Demigods Trampled by Vṛtrāsura
• Vṛtrāsura Condemns Indra
• Vṛtrāsura Desires the Mercy of Great Devotees
• Material Opulences Increase Anxiety and Pride
• Vṛtrāsura Yearns to Serve the Lord

<title h4>Vṛtrāsura’s Glorious Death</title>

• Vṛtrāsura Attacks Lord Indra
• Lord Indra is Encouraged by Vṛtrāsura
• Everyone Dances to the Desire of the Lord
• Indra Replies to Vṛtrāsura
• Vṛtrāsura Swallows Indra
• The Demigods Praise the Victory of Indra

<title h4>King Indra Afflicted by Sinful Reaction</title>

• The Unhappiness of Indra
• The Demigods Reassure Lord Indra
• Personified Sin Chases Indra
• Indra Returns to the Heavenly Planets
• The Value of Hearing this Narration

<title h4>King Citraketu’s Lamentation</title>

• The Mystery of Vṛtrāsura: Sinful Demon or Great Saint
• A Real Devotee of God is Extremely Rare
• King Citraketu’s Ten Million Barren Wives
• The Sage Angirā Visits the King
• The King’s Deep Anxiety
• Citraketu’s Empire Means Nothing Without a Son
• A Son is Born to the King
• The Sonless Queens Condemn Themselves
• The Queens Poison the Baby
• Grief Devastates King Citraketu
• The Queen Blames the Supreme Lord for Her Son’s Death
• The Kingdom Becomes an Ocean of Lamentation

<title h4>The Saints Nārada and Angirā Instruct King Citraketu</title>

• Conditioned Souls Are Joined and Separated by Time
• The Supreme Lord Controls Everything
• King Citraketu’s Enlightenment
• Great Souls Wander the Earth to Instruct the People
• Wife, Children and Home Are Mental Concoctions
• The Body is the Source of All Miseries

<title h4>King Citraketu Meets the Supreme Lord</title>

• King Citraketu’s Dead Son Speaks
• Traveling from Womb to Womb
• The Living Entity is Equal in Quality to God
• Citraketu Leaves the Dark Well of Family Life
• Nārada Gives a Mantra to Citraketu
• Material Words and Minds Cannot Approach the Lord
• Ahgirā and Nārada Depart for the Topmost Planet
• Citraketu Attains the Shelter of Anantadeva
• Prayers of Citraketu to Lord Sesa
• The Beginning, Middle and End of Everything
• Escaping the Repetition of Birth and Death
• Low-Class Religious Systems Are Full of Envy
• Aryans Worship the Supreme Lord
• Hearing the Holy Names Purifies One
• Anantadeva Addresses Citraketu
• The Dreaming Condition of the Living Entities
• The Perfection of Human Life

<title h4>Mother Pārvati Curses Citraketu</title>

• Citraketu Travels in Outer Space
• Citraketu Laughs at Lord Śiva's Embracing His Wife
• Pārvati is Furious with Citraketu
• Pārvati Curses Him to Be Born in a Family of Demons
• Citraketu Calmly Accepts the Curse
• Happiness and Distress Flow like the Waves of a River
• Lord Śiva Praises the Glories of Devotees
• The Devotee is Detached from this World
• King Citraketu Takes Birth as a Demon

<title h4>Diti Vows to Kill King Indra</title>

• The Descendants of Aditi
• Diti’s Demoniac Children
• Diti Won’t Rest until Indra is Dead
• Sweet Words and Smiles Control Kaśyapa’s Mind
• A Woman Should Worship Her Husband as Lord
• Diti Begs for a Son who Can Kill Indra
• A Woman’s Heart is like a Razor Blade
• Kaśyapa Muni Instructs His Wife
• Indra Observes Diti’s Progress
• Indra Cuts Diti’s Embryo into Forty-Nine Pieces
• Diti’s Heart is Purified by Devotional Service
• Indra Satisfies Diti

<title h4>Performing the Puṁsavana Ritualistic Ceremony</title>

• Description of the Puṁsavana Vow
• Prayers to Lord Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī
• The Duty of Everyone is to Worship Lakṣmī-Nārāyana
• A Wife Should Worship Her Husband
• Results of Observing the Puṁsavana Vow