p104 _
-chap- _
toc-1 _
p105w _
toc-2 _
+chap+ _
p106
----- bhagap105.html
Bharata became king, it was named after him Bh.arata Varsha. King
Bharata performed the Vedic Yajnas and made offerings to the
Devas. But he knew the Devas as manifestations only of Vasudeva.
His mind became pure and filled with Satva. He lost himself in
devotion to Vasudeva. At last he divided his kingdom amongst his
sons and himself went for Tapas to the hermitage of Pulaha in the
kshetra of Hari on the Sacred Gandaki. He meditated in his heart on
the lotus feet of Bhagavan and became suffused with ecstacy.
Bharata invoked the golden Purusha in the rising sun by a
special Rik (Vedic Mantra) and addressed Him thus, " Let us attain
the spiritual rays of luminous Savitri that are beyond Rajas and that
are the generators of Karmic effects. By His Manas He created
this universe. He preserves the Jiva again by permeating this
universe."
SKANDHA V. CHAP. 8.
Once upon a time king Bharata had bathed in the Gandaka and
after performing the daily practices was meditating on Pranava on
the river-side. A deer came to drink water at the time. While the
animal was quenching her thirst a lion roared not far off and she in
terror jumped into the river. As she happened to be big with child,
she was delivered of it at the time. Exhausted, the deer got back
to the river side only to die. The new born fawn was being wash-
ed away, having no one to take care of it. Bharata took pity on the
little fawn. He took it up and brought it to his hermitage. He
brought it up as his own child and became deeply attached to it. He
constantly thought of the deer-child, even so much so that when death
approached he could not forget it and became re-born in another
birth as a deer.
But though born as a deer, Bharata did not lose the memory of
his 4 former birth. He reflected that the mind that had been trained
and controlled in the worship of Vasudeva went astray only for the
sake of one deer-child. He left the Kalanjara hills where he was
born as a deer and sought for Salagram, sacred with the Asramas of
Pulastya and Pulaha. He waited calmly for the exhauastion of
Karma that had given rise to his deer life. He then gave up his body
in the sacred waters of the Gandaka.
SKANDHA V. CHAP. 9.
A Brahmana of the line of Angiras had nine sons by one wife.
They were all well versed in the Vedas, He had one son by another
14
[[105]]
p104 _
-chap- _
toc-1 _
p105w _
toc-2 _
+chap+ _
p106
v?