I think, therefore, that there is nothing holier on earth or in heaven and nothing higher than Narayana. A sojourn to all the sacred places on Earth, and ablutions performed in all were the sacred waters, do not produce so much merit as a discourse that has Narayana for its subject. Having listened to this discourse from the beginning,-this discourse on Hari, the lord of the universe, which dissipates all sins, we feel that we have been purged off of all our sins, and sanctified entirely. Nothing wonderful was done by my ancestor Dhananjaya whose was the victory in the great battle on Kurukshetra, for it should be remembered that he had Vasudeva for his friend. I think that that person could have nothing unattainable in the three-worlds, who had for his friend Vishnu himself, that great Lord of the universe! Highly fortunate and and commendable those ancestors of mine, since they had Janarddana himself for superintending their temporal and spiritual prosperity. Worshipped of all the worlds, the holy Narayana is capable of being seen with the help of austerities alone.