The lord said: The quality of the benefit varies according to the mode of yajña. If the deity is eulogised continuously by japa it becomes pleased and on being pleased it shall bestow extensive pleasures and permanent liberation. Neither the yakṣas nor the Rākṣasas, neither the Piśācas nor the terrible and evil planets even approach the person doing the japa. They are frightened all round. One shall entirely suppress by means of japa all the sins committed in a number of previous births. One wins worldly pleasures, Siddhis and liberation and also conquers death by means of japa.