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THE GODDESS OF PROSPERITY - Where does She reside? - from Mahabharata

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IN WHAT KIND OF MAN OR WOMAN,

DOES THE GODDESS OF PROSPERITY ALWAYS RESIDE?

 

This question was asked by king Yudhishthira, and the answer is given

by Bhishma in the Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva, Sec XI.

 

Bhishma said:

Sree (goddess of prosperity said): I always reside with him that is

eloquent, active, attentive to business, free from wrath, given to

the worship of the deities, endued with gratitude, has his passions

under complete control, and is high-minded in everything.

 

I never reside with one that is inattentive to business, that is an

unbeliever, that causes an intermixture of races in consequence of

his lustfulness, that is ungrateful, that is of impure practices,

that uses harsh and cruel words, that is a thief, that cherishes

malice towards his preceptors and other seniors, those persons that

are endued with little energy, strength, life, and honour, that are

distressed at every trifle, and that always indulge in wrath.

 

I never reside with these that think in one strain and act in a

different one. I never reside also with him who never desires any

acquisition for himself, of him who is so blinded as to rest content

with the lot in which he finds himself without any exertion or with

those that are contented with small acquisitions.

 

I reside with those that are observant with the duties of

righteousness, or those that are devoted to the service of the aged,

or those that have their passions under control, or those that are

endued with cleansed souls, or those that observe the virtue of

forgiveness, or those that are able and prompt in action, or with

such women as are forgiving and self-restrained.

 

I reside with those women also that are devoted to truth and

sincerity and that worship the deities.

I do not reside with those women that do not attend to household

furniture and provisions scattered all around the house, and that

always utter words contrary to the wishes of their husbands. I always

avoid those women that are fond of the houses of other people and

that have no modesty.

 

On the other hand, I reside with those women that are devoted to

their husbands, that are blessed in behaviour, and that are always

decked in ornaments and attired in good robes. I always reside with

those women that are truthful in speech, that are of handsome and

agreeable features, that are blessed and that are endued with all

accomplishments.

I always avoid such women as are sinful and unclean or impure, as

always lick the corners of their mouths, as have no patience or

fortitude, and as are fond of dispute and quarrelling, as are given

to much sleep, and as always lie down.

I always reside in conveyances and the animals that drag them, in

maidens, in ornaments and good vestments, in sacrifices, in clouds

charged with rain, in full blown lotuses, and in those stars that

bespangle the autumnal firmament. I reside in elephants, in the cow

pen, in good seats, and in lakes adorned with full-blown lotuses. I

live also in such rivers as babble sweetly in their course, melodious

with the music of cranes, having banks adorned with rows of diverse

trees, and resorted to by Brahmanas and ascetics and others crowned

with success. I always reside in those rivers also that have deep and

large volumes of rolling waters rendered turbid by lions and

elephants plunging into them for bathing or slaking their thirst. I

reside also in infuriate elephants, in bovine bulls, in kings, on the

throne, and good men.

 

LAKSHMI RESIDES IN THAT HOUSE IN WHICH....

 

I always reside in that house in which the inmate pours libation on

the sacrificial fire and worships kine (cow), Brahmans and the

deities.

 

I reside in that house where at the proper time offerings are made

unto the deities, in the course of worship.

 

I always reside in such Brahmanas as are devoted to the study of the

Vedas, in Kshatriyas devoted to the observance of righteousness, in

Vaisyas devoted to cultivation, and the Sudras devoted to the service

of the three upper classes.

I reside with a heart firm and unchangeable, in Narayana, in my

embodied self. In Him is righteousness in its perfection and full

measure, devotion to the Brahmanas, and the quality of agreeableness.

I do not reside in my embodied form in any of these places that I

have mentioned, except Narayana. That person in whom I reside in

spirit increases in righteousness and fame and wealth and objects of

desire.

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