Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 1:51-60

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Krsna-pada-padma-prapti-sopanam
The Stairway to Sri Krsna’s Lotus Feet
Chapter 1 : Verse 51-60

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 51.The wise say that a person into whose ear a Visnu-mantra has entered from his guru’s mouth, is a very pure devotee. 52.A devotee delivers his family. He delivers seven generations before and seven generations after, seven generations of grandparents, children, grandchildren, and other relatives. 53.A devotee always delivers his wife, daughter, friend, disciple, granddaughter, servant, maidservant and son. 54.The devotee always desire to visit holy pilgrimage places. By the devotee’s touch and glance the sins sinners leave there are at once destroyed. 55.A place where a devotee stays for as long as it takes to milk a cow becomes a holy place. All the holy places on the surface of the earth are present in that place. 56.-57.As if he were plunged in the Ganga of transcendental knowledge, as if he were rapt in the thought of Lord Krsna, as if he were in a forest of tulasi trees, a Krsna-temple, Vrndavana, Haridvara, or other holy places, a sinner who dies there attains the abode of Lord Hari. 58.When a sinner bathes in a holy place his sins flee. His sins are destroyed by a breeze that has touched a devotee. 59.As dry straw in a blazing fire, these sins cannot survive. 60.Seven lifetimes of sins are destroyed for whoever sees they who travel on the path of devotional service.