Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction xt
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Dynasties of the Sons of Puritirava 1
Chapter Summary 1
Dhanvantari, Inaugurator of Medical Science 3
Raji’s Sons Refuse to Return Indra’s Heavenly Planet 9
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
King Yayati Regains His Youth 12
Chapter Summary 12
Hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam Destroys Material Bondage 15
The Quarrel Between Devayani and Sarmistha 20
Astrological Compatibility and Vedic Marriages 29
Yayati Cursed to Suffer Premature Old Age 38
Yayati Asks His Sons to Trade Youth for Old Age 40
Piru Accepts His Father’s Old Age and Invalidity 48
Happiness Depends on Mind and Sense Purification 52
CHAPTER NINETEEN
King Yayati 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
Devayani Attains Liberation by the Grace of Her Husband 82
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