Table of Contents
Preface   ix     Introduction   xiii
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Dynasties of the Sons of Purūravā    1         Chapter Summary  1        Dhanvantari, Inaugurator of Medical Science  3        Rajī's Sons Refuse to Return Indra's Heavenly Planet  9
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
King Yayāti Regains His Youth    12         Chapter Summary  12        Hearing  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  Destroys Material Bondage  15        The Quarrel Between Devayānī and Śarmiṣṭhā  20        Astrological Compatibility and Vedic Marriages  29        Yayāti Cursed to Suffer Premature Old Age  38        Yayāti Asks His Sons to Trade Youth for Old Age  40        Pūru Accepts His Father's Old Age and Invalidity  48        Happiness Depends on Mind and Sense Purification  52
CHAPTER NINETEEN
King Yayāti Achieves Liberation    55         Chapter Summary  55        The Allegory of the He-goat and She-goat  58        When Family Life Is a Dark Well  66        The Advanced Spiritualist Is Uninterested in Sex  71        Suffering in the Cycle of Repeated Birth and Death  76        Devayānī Attains Liberation by the Grace of Her Husband  82
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