# 6. Prescribed Duties for Mankind 1. [[sb/6/1|The Story of the Fallen Ajamila]] 2. [[sb/6/2|Ajāmila Delivered by the Viṣṇudūtas]] 3. [[sb/6/3|Yamarāja Instructs His Messengers]] 4. [[sb/6/4|The Haṁsa-guhya Prayers]] 5. [[sb/6/5|Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa]] 6. [[sb/6/6|The Progeny of the Daughters of Dakṣa]] 7. [[sb/6/7|Indra Offends His Spiritual Master, Bṛhaspati]] 8. [[sb/6/8|The Nārāyaṇa-kavaca Shield]] 9. [[sb/6/9|Appearance of the Demon Vṛtrāsura]] 10. [[sb/6/10|The Battle Between the Demigods and Vṛtrāsura]] 11. [[sb/6/11|The Transcendental Qualities of Vṛtrāsura]] 12. [[sb/6/12|Vṛtrāsura's Glorious Death]] 13. [[sb/6/13|King Indra Afflicted by Sinful Reaction]] 14. [[sb/6/14|King Citraketu's Lamentation]] 15. [[sb/6/15|The Saints Nārada and Aṅgirā Instruct King Citraketu]] 16. [[sb/6/16|King Citraketu Meets the Supreme Lord]] 17. [[sb/6/17|Mother Pārvatī Curses Citraketu]] 18. [[sb/6/18|Diti Vows to Kill King Indra]] 19. [[sb/6/19|Performing the Puṁsavana Ritualistic Ceremony]] *** ## 1. [[sb/6/1|The Story of the Fallen Ajamila]] * [[sb/6/1/1|The Path Beyond the Highest Planet]] * [[sb/6/1/7|Devotees Want to Save Their Fellow Men]] * [[sb/6/1/7|Proper Atonement Counteracts Impious Deeds]] * [[sb/6/1/11|Atonement is Compared to the Bathing of an Elephant]] * [[sb/6/1/13-14|A Cure for the Material Disease]] * [[sb/6/1/15|How One Can Uproot Sinful Desires]] * [[sb/6/1/19|Bhakti: The Best Thing in This World]] * [[sb/6/1/1|Devotees Never Even Dream of Death]] * [[sb/6/1/2|The Story of the Fallen Ajamila]] * [[sb/6/1/6|Ajamila's Tenth and Special Son]] * [[sb/6/1/10|Ajamila Chants at the Time of Death]] * [[sb/6/1/11|The Servants of Death Surprised]] * [[sb/6/1/15|God's Messengers Intervene]] * [[sb/6/1/16|Real Religion Exists Eternally]] * [[sb/6/1/18|How the Supreme Lord Controls the Universe]] * [[sb/6/1/19|Nature and God Witness Our Activities]] * [[sb/6/1/20|Karma in Past and Future Lives]] * [[sb/6/1/22|Yamarāja, the Lord of Death]] * [[sb/6/1/26|The Lonely Struggle for Existence]] * [[sb/6/1/30|The Living Entity Traps Himself]] * [[sb/6/1/31|The Roots of Reincarnation]] * [[sb/6/1/34-36|A Prostitute Corrupts Ajamila]] * [[sb/6/1/40|Servants of Death Give Their Verdict]] ## 2. [[sb/6/2|Ajāmila Delivered by the Viṣṇudūtas]] * [[sb/6/2/42|Needless Punishment of Sinless Persons]] * [[sb/6/2/45|The Duty of Government]] * [[sb/6/2/49|Millions of Lifetimes Can Be Purified by Chanting]] * [[sb/6/2/51|Chanting Delivers Even Thieves, Murderers and Fornicators]] * [[sb/6/2/56|Chanting Absolves One from Hell]] * [[sb/6/2/1|The Lord’s Name Burns to Ashes All Sinful Reaction]] * [[sb/6/2/1|Death’s Ropes Are Cut]] * [[sb/6/2/68|Ajāmila Regrets His Past Sinful Life]] * [[sb/6/2/2|Why He Was Saved from Hellish Worlds]] * [[sb/6/2/7|We Must All Have His Determination]] * [[sb/6/2/9-10|Ajāmila Goes to Hardwar]] * [[sb/6/2/13|Ajāmila Regains His Spiritual Body]] * [[sb/6/2/16|How to Get Free from Material Bondage]] ## 3. [[sb/6/3|Yamarāja Instructs His Messengers]] * [[sb/6/3/22|The Messengers of Death Had Never Been Defeated]] * [[sb/6/3/24|Justice in the Universe]] * [[sb/6/3/2|Viṣṇu’s Mysterious Messengers]] * [[sb/6/3/33|Creation Has Only One Master]] * [[sb/6/3/36|How God Controls Men]] * [[sb/6/3/39|Only the Devotees Know the Lord]] * [[sb/6/3/2|The Lord’s Servants Are Almost as Qualified as He is]] * [[sb/6/3/49|Surrender to Kṛṣṇa is the Real Religion]] * [[sb/6/3/49|Chanting is Always Beneficial]] * [[sb/6/3/49|The Secret Religion of the Twelve Mahājanas]] * [[sb/6/3/9|Yamarāja Punishes Materialists]] * [[sb/6/3/12|The Lord of Death Begs Pardon]] * [[sb/6/3/13|Chanting Completes All Purification the Servants of Death Fear Devotees]] ## 4. [[sb/6/4|The Hamsa-Guhya Prayers Offered to the Lord by Prajāpati Dakṣa]] * [[sb/6/4/18|The Anger of the Pracetās After Long Austerities]] * [[sb/6/4/21|Soma Pleads for the Life of the Trees]] * [[sb/6/4/24|The Lord of Lords Provides Food for Everyone]] * [[sb/6/4/24|A Good King Protects All Forms of Life]] * [[sb/6/4/25|The Body is a Temple]] * [[sb/6/4/27-28|Dakṣa is Born to Populate the Universe]] * [[sb/6/4/29|Dakṣa Retires for Austerities]] * [[sb/6/4/30|The Lord is Invisible to Material Eyes]] * [[sb/6/4/33|The Trance of God Realization]] * [[sb/6/4/35-39|How Yogīs Find the Supersoul]] * [[sb/6/4/6|The Person Behind Everything]] * [[sb/6/4/8|Learned Men Forget Their Souls for Philosophy]] * [[sb/6/4/12|The Common Basis for All Philosophies]] * [[sb/6/4/15|The Lord Descends to Favor the Devotees]] * [[sb/6/4/19|Only J<r�I).a Is to Be Worshiped]] * [[sb/6/4/24|The Lord, Riding on Garw�a, Appears to Dak�a]] * [[sb/6/4/26|Dak�a Congratulated]] * [[sb/6/4/29|How to See God's Impersonal Form]] * [[sb/6/4/30|Before the Creation]] * [[sb/6/4/32|A Wife for Dak�a]] ## 5. [[sb/6/5|Nārada Muni Cursed by Prajāpati Dakṣa]] * [[sb/6/5/33|The Haryasvas Perform Austerities]] * [[sb/6/5/1|Nārada Muni’s Allegory]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Earth”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The One Male”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Hole”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Prostitute”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Husband”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The River”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The House”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Swan”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Razors and Thunderbolts”]] * [[sb/6/5/1|“The Father”]] * [[sb/6/5/53|The Haryasvas Are Convinced by Nārada]] * [[sb/6/5/54|The Goodness of Nārada Muni]] * [[sb/6/5/6-8|The Savalāsvas Perform Austerities]] * [[sb/6/5/12|Nārada Preaches Again]] * [[sb/6/5/14|The Savalāsvas Follow Their Brothers]] * [[sb/6/5/1|Dakṣa’s Shortsightedness in Anger]] * [[sb/6/5/16|A Brahmāna's Debts]] * [[sb/6/5/18|Nārada is Accused by Dakṣa]] * [[sb/6/5/20|Renunciation Requires Knowledge]] * [[sb/6/5/1|Dakṣa’s False Arguments]] * [[sb/6/5/22|How Nārada Was Both Cursed and Favored by Dakṣa]] ## 6. [[sb/6/6|The Progeny of the Daughters of Dakṣa]] * [[sb/6/6/3|Dakṣa Begets Sixty Daughters]] * [[sb/6/6/3|Upendra Born of Marutvati]] * [[sb/6/6/3|Viśvakarmā Born of Āṅgirasī]] * [[sb/6/6/3|Dakṣa Curses the Moon-god]] * [[sb/6/6/3|Description of the Descendants of Aditi]] ## 7. [[sb/6/7|Indra Offends His Spiritual Master, Bṛhaspati]] * [[sb/6/7/2-8|Bṛhaspati Rejects the Demigods]] * [[sb/6/7/1|Indra Condemns His Own Opulence]] * [[sb/6/7/2-8|Those Who Mislead People Go to Hell]] * [[sb/6/7/2-8|The Demons Declare War Against the Demigods]] * [[sb/6/7/2-8|The Demigods Approach Visvarūpa]] * [[sb/6/7/13|The Spiritual Master Personifies the Vedas]] * [[sb/6/7/15|Visvarūpa Becomes the Priest of the Demigods]] * [[sb/6/7/16|Visvarūpa Composes a Protective Prayer]] ## 8. [[sb/6/8|The Nārāyana-kavaca Shield]] * [[sb/6/8/20|Explanation of the Viṣṇu Mantra Armor]] * [[sb/6/8/23|Prayers to Vāmana and Nṛsṁhadeva]] * [[sb/6/8/27-28|Prayers to Hayagrīva, Nārada and Kūrma]] * [[sb/6/8/31|Prayers to Vyāsa, Buddha and Kalki]] * [[sb/6/8/32-33|Prayer to the Sudarśana Cakra]] * [[sb/6/8/38|Advanced Souls See Unity in Diversity]] * [[sb/6/8/42|Nārāyana-kavaca Protects One from Danger]] ## 9. [[sb/6/9|Appearance of the Demon Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/9/50|Visvarūpa Offers Oblations to the Demons]] * [[sb/6/9/53|Indra Accepts Sinful Reactions]] * [[sb/6/9/61|Description of Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/9/65|Prayers of the Demigods to Nārāyana]] * [[sb/6/9/1|The Lord Accepts Various Transcendental Bodies]] * [[sb/6/9/2|Lord Hari Appears Before the Demigods]] * [[sb/6/9/9|All Contradictions Are Reconciled in the Lord]] * [[sb/6/9/13-17|Devotees Are the Real Friends of Everyone]] * [[sb/6/9/1|The Demigods Take Shelter at the Lord’s Lotus Feet]] * [[sb/6/9/28|The Lord Replies to the Demigods]] * [[sb/6/9/33|A Pure Devotee is Like an Expert Physician]] ## 10. [[sb/6/10|The Battle Between the Demigods and Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/10/40|The Demigods Ask Dadhīci for His Body]] * [[sb/6/10/42|The Body Must Be Engaged for the Benefit of Others]] * [[sb/6/10/49|Indra Rides Off to Kill Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/10/4|The Demons Resist the Armies of Indra]] * [[sb/6/10/9|Vṛtrāsura Addresses the Heroes of the Demons]] ## 11. [[sb/6/11|The Transcendental Qualities of Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/11/15|Vṛtrāsura Rebukes the Demigods]] * [[sb/6/11/18|The Demigods Trampled by Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/11/20|Vṛtrāsura Condemns Indra]] * [[sb/6/11/24|Vṛtrāsura Desires the Mercy of Great Devotees]] * [[sb/6/11/25|Material Opulences Increase Anxiety and Pride]] * [[sb/6/11/28|Vṛtrāsura Yearns to Serve the Lord]] ## 12. [[sb/6/12|Vṛtrāsura’s Glorious Death]] * [[sb/6/12/35|Vṛtrāsura Attacks Lord Indra]] * [[sb/6/12/35|Lord Indra is Encouraged by Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/12/1|Everyone Dances to the Desire of the Lord]] * [[sb/6/12/6|Indra Replies to Vṛtrāsura]] * [[sb/6/12/17|Vṛtrāsura Swallows Indra]] * [[sb/6/12/26|The Demigods Praise the Victory of Indra]] ## 13. [[sb/6/13|King Indra Afflicted by Sinful Reaction]] * [[sb/6/13/28|The Unhappiness of Indra]] * [[sb/6/13/29|The Demigods Reassure Lord Indra]] * [[sb/6/13/31|Personified Sin Chases Indra]] * [[sb/6/13/33|Indra Returns to the Heavenly Planets]] * [[sb/6/13/35|The Value of Hearing this Narration]] ## 14. [[sb/6/14|King Citraketu’s Lamentation]] * [[sb/6/14|The Mystery of Vṛtrāsura: Sinful Demon or Great Saint]] * [[sb/6/14|A Real Devotee of God is Extremely Rare]] * [[sb/6/14|King Citraketu’s Ten Million Barren Wives]] * [[sb/6/14|The Sage Angirā Visits the King]] * [[sb/6/14|The King’s Deep Anxiety]] * [[sb/6/14|Citraketu’s Empire Means Nothing Without a Son]] * [[sb/6/14|A Son is Born to the King]] * [[sb/6/14|The Sonless Queens Condemn Themselves]] * [[sb/6/14/1|The Queens Poison the Baby]] * [[sb/6/14/4|Grief Devastates King Citraketu]] * [[sb/6/14|The Queen Blames the Supreme Lord for Her Son’s Death]] * [[sb/6/14/8|The Kingdom Becomes an Ocean of Lamentation]] ## 15. [[sb/6/15|The Saints Nārada and Angirā Instruct King Citraketu]] * [[sb/6/15/12-15|Conditioned Souls Are Joined and Separated by Time]] * [[sb/6/15/12-15|The Supreme Lord Controls Everything]] * [[sb/6/15|King Citraketu’s Enlightenment]] * [[sb/6/15/18-19|Great Souls Wander the Earth to Instruct the People]] * [[sb/6/15/20|Wife, Children and Home Are Mental Concoctions]] * [[sb/6/15/27|The Body is the Source of All Miseries]] ## 16. [[sb/6/16|King Citraketu Meets the Supreme Lord]] * [[sb/6/16|King Citraketu’s Dead Son Speaks]] * [[sb/6/16/38|Traveling from Womb to Womb]] * [[sb/6/16/40|The Living Entity is Equal in Quality to God]] * [[sb/6/16/42|Citraketu Leaves the Dark Well of Family Life]] * [[sb/6/16/49|Nārada Gives a Mantra to Citraketu]] * [[sb/6/16/52|Material Words and Minds Cannot Approach the Lord]] * [[sb/6/16/53-54|Ahgirā and Nārada Depart for the Topmost Planet]] * [[sb/6/16/58|Citraketu Attains the Shelter of Anantadeva]] * [[sb/6/16/61-62|Prayers of Citraketu to Lord Sesa]] * [[sb/6/16/68|The Beginning, Middle and End of Everything]] * [[sb/6/16/4|Escaping the Repetition of Birth and Death]] * [[sb/6/16/7|Low-Class Religious Systems Are Full of Envy]] * [[sb/6/16/12|Aryans Worship the Supreme Lord]] * [[sb/6/16/16|Hearing the Holy Names Purifies One]] * [[sb/6/16/21|Anantadeva Addresses Citraketu]] * [[sb/6/16/27|The Dreaming Condition of the Living Entities]] * [[sb/6/16/36|The Perfection of Human Life]] ## 17. [[sb/6/17|Mother Pārvati Curses Citraketu]] * [[sb/6/17/47|Citraketu Travels in Outer Space]] * [[sb/6/17/49|Citraketu Laughs at Lord Śiva's Embracing His Wife]] * [[sb/6/17/49|Pārvati is Furious with Citraketu]] * [[sb/6/17/4-5|Pārvati Curses Him to Be Born in a Family of Demons]] * [[sb/6/17/10|Citraketu Calmly Accepts the Curse]] * [[sb/6/17/12|Happiness and Distress Flow like the Waves of a River]] * [[sb/6/17/14|Lord Śiva Praises the Glories of Devotees]] * [[sb/6/17/19|The Devotee is Detached from this World]] * [[sb/6/17/24|King Citraketu Takes Birth as a Demon]] ## 18. [[sb/6/18|Diti Vows to Kill King Indra]] * [[sb/6/18/29|The Descendants of Aditi]] * [[sb/6/18|Diti’s Demoniac Children]] * [[sb/6/18|Diti Won’t Rest until Indra is Dead]] * [[sb/6/18|Sweet Words and Smiles Control Kaśyapa’s Mind]] * [[sb/6/18/11|A Woman Should Worship Her Husband as Lord]] * [[sb/6/18/15|Diti Begs for a Son who Can Kill Indra]] * [[sb/6/18|A Woman’s Heart is like a Razor Blade]] * [[sb/6/18/22|Kaśyapa Muni Instructs His Wife]] * [[sb/6/18|Indra Observes Diti’s Progress]] * [[sb/6/18|Indra Cuts Diti’s Embryo into Forty-Nine Pieces]] * [[sb/6/18|Diti’s Heart is Purified by Devotional Service]] * [[sb/6/18/33-34|Indra Satisfies Diti]] ## 19. [[sb/6/19|Performing the Puṁsavana Ritualistic Ceremony]] * [[sb/6/19/40|Description of the Puṁsavana Vow]] * [[sb/6/19/43|Prayers to Lord Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī]] * [[sb/6/19/43|The Duty of Everyone is to Worship Lakṣmī-Nārāyana]] * [[sb/6/19/46|A Wife Should Worship Her Husband]] * [[sb/6/19/51|Results of Observing the Puṁsavana Vow]]