• The consequences of trivial sins are suffered in subsequent births. However, the repercussions of grievous sins are faced in that very birth! This is proved in the life of Dhundhukãri. Since he committed grievous sins ('mahãpãpa') he faced death, in that very birth, at the very hands of the immoral women with whom he lived.
   

• Gokarna performed Srimad Bhãgavata Saptãha to relieve Dhundhukãri from his deep suffering as a ghost. Gokarna placed a bamboo with seven nodes and fixed this ghost in it. Srimad Bhãgavatam does not say that at the end of the seventh day the whole bamboo burst out and Dhundhukãri attained to Vaikunta; instead, it says that each day a node of the bamboo burst. This shows that even a single day of listening to the Bhãgavata pãrãyana would bestow relevant fruit.
   

• It is in the lineage of the great Bhakta Dhruva that the worst sinner Venna was born. Prahalãd, the great Bhãgavata, was born to Hiranyakasippu. This shows that even the sinful are born in a virtuous family and the virtuous in a wicked lineage.
   

• Hiranyakasipu performed spiritual austerities standing on his feet. It was not difficult for him because, as one of the Jaya-Vijaya pair, the doorkeepers of Vaikunta, he was habituated to it! It is verily because of this he seems to have stood on his feet for a long time and performed tapas!
   

• Sage Narada taught Dhruva the Mantra to be chanted, the Form that has to be meditated upon and the place for performing the meditation. But, Dhruva practised severe restriction in consumption of food. The question, 'Sage Narada had not advised this to him,' might arise in us. From this we realize that the Guru gives some instructions verbally and some from within.
   

• All are aware that the Lord churned the Ocean of Milk to bestow the Devãs with 'amruta'. But, the real reason behind this act of the Lord appears to bring Goddess Lakshmi out of the Ocean of Milk and marry her!
   

• Some men make their father-in-law's home as their permanent place of stay. This practice appears to have been set by none other than the Lord who has stretched Himself on a bed in the Ocean of Milk!
   

• The Lord takes the form of a beautiful maiden (Mohini Avatãr) to get the 'amrut' back from the Asurãs who had snatched it away from the Devãs. The Lord had never before taken such a form. Why then did the Lord take the form of a beautiful maiden now? On churning the Ocean of Milk, Lakshmi appeared out of it. It appears that stunned by the inexplicable beauty of Lakshmi the Lord also desired to wear that form!
   

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