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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 1: Chapter 19: Verses 36-40
Pariksit takes a vow of fasting till death and Suka pays a visit to him
otherwise how could we, human beings much less those who are about to die, obtain the privilege of seeing you, whose movements are so obscure, and who have fully realized the object of human life and live in a lonely forest ? Therefore, l enquire of you, the greatest preceptor of the Yogis, the character and the means of the highest realization. Nay, what should be done under all circumstances by a man who is on the verge of death ? Again, tell me, my lord, what should be done by men in general-what should they hear, what should they repeat (with their tongue), what should they keep in their mind, what should they resort to and what should they avoid ? For, nowhere, O divine sage, are you seen to stay at the door of householders even for the brief space of time taken in milking a cow. Suta continued : Thus addressed and questioned by the king in soft accents, the divine Suka (the son of Badarayana), who was conversant with Dharma, made answer (as follows):
Thus ends the nineteenth discourse entitled "The visit of buka', in Book One of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita, composed by the sage Vyasa and consisting of eighteen thousand Slokas.
END OF BOOK ONE
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