After bathing with care and following the sacred rules, dressed in clean garments and with senses brought under control, the devotee prepares once more to bathe and to worship Puruṣottama at that holy place. The worship is performed with fragrant substances, fresh flowers, a variety of offerings and foods, radiant lamps, and many forms of service. With deep reverence, the devotee prostrates and circumambulates, honoring the Lord with all devotion. The Lord of the Universe is then worshipped further with recitations, hymns, salutations, and with delightful songs and musical instruments. Afterwards, the devotee turns to honor the Brahmins present, offering them respect and gratitude. With unwavering faith and devotion, the devotee presents to the Brahmins twelve cows, gold, and a pair of umbrella and footwear. With the same devotion, wealth, garments, and other gifts are given, for when Brahmins are sincerely honored, Govinda Himself is pleased. The teacher, too, is honored with devotion, receiving a cow, a garment, gold, another pair of umbrella and footwear, and a bronze vessel. Once these gifts are given, the devotee prepares a feast for the Brahmins, beginning with sweet rice, cooked grains, and a variety of foods mixed with jaggery and ghee. When the Brahmins are satisfied and their minds at peace, twelve water pots filled with pure water are given to them. Further gifts are offered according to the devotee’s ability, without envy, and a water pot and a special gift are presented to the teacher as well. Having thus honored the Brahmins, the devotee turns with supreme devotion to the guru, the giver of sacred knowledge, revering him as one would honor Vishnu Himself. The teacher is worshipped with offerings of gold, garments, cows, grains, and other excellent gifts, and the devotee bows low, reciting this prayer: “May the all-pervading Lord of the Universe, who holds the conch, discus, and mace—the beginningless and endless God, the Supreme Person—be pleased.” After uttering this mantra, the devotee circumambulates the Brahmins three times, bowing with head lowered in devotion, and then respectfully takes leave of the teacher. With devotion, the devotee accompanies the Brahmins to the edge of the boundary, following them and offering salutations before taking leave. Finally, joined by relatives and friends, the devotee partakes of food with restraint in speech, sharing the meal with fellow worshippers, the poor, mendicants, and all those desiring food. By performing these sacred actions, whether man or woman, one attains merit equal to a thousand horse sacrifices and a hundred royal consecrations. Indeed, O best of men, taking a hundred acts from the past and a hundred from the future, the devotee attains heaven, bearing a divine form. In that heavenly realm, the devotee is endowed with all auspicious marks, adorned with every ornament, all desires fulfilled, godlike and free from suffering. Blessed with beauty and youth, adorned with every virtue, praised by Apsarases and accompanied by Gandharvas, the devotee rides in a celestial chariot radiant as the sun, steady and moving at will, decorated with banners, flags, and all manner of jewels. Radiant in all directions, tireless as he moves through the sky, youthful, mighty, and wise, the devotee enters the world of Vishnu. There, for a hundred aeons, he enjoys every pleasure he desires, accompanied by accomplished apsaras, gandharvas, gods, vidyadharas, and serpents. Praised by eminent sages, he remains free from affliction, resembling the Lord of the Universe Himself, bearing the conch, discus, and mace. Delighted, the Brahmin assumes a four-armed form, enjoys supreme pleasures, and plays among the gods. Afterward, he proceeds to the abode of Brahma, which grants every desire and is adorned by accomplished vidyadharas, gods, and kinnaras. There, for ninety aeons, he enjoys happiness, and then moves on to the realm where all desired fruits are granted. He arrives at Rudra’s world, served by hosts of gods, where happiness and liberation abound, and where countless thousands of celestial palaces shine. Surrounded by accomplished vidyadharas, yakshas, daityas, and danavas, he enjoys happiness there for eighty aeons. After this, he reaches Goloka, filled with every pleasure, splendid and enchanting, adorned by gods, accomplished beings, and apsaras. There, he enjoys supreme pleasures for seventy aeons, rare even in the three worlds, and remains composed like a god. From there, the devotee attains the supreme world of Prajapati, surrounded by gandharvas, apsaras, accomplished beings, sages, and vidyadharas. Here, he enjoys various pleasures for sixty aeons, and then reaches the wondrous abode of Shakra. In Shakra’s realm, he is surrounded by gandharvas, kinnaras, accomplished beings, gods, vidyadharas, serpents, secretive apsaras, sadhyas, and many excellent gods. There, he enjoys happiness for fifty aeons before ascending to the world of the gods, adorned with celestial palaces. After enjoying rare pleasures for forty aeons, he attains the world called Nakshatra, exceedingly difficult to reach. There, he enjoys excellent pleasures for thirty aeons, and then, O best of Brahmins, he attains the world of the Moon. In the realm where Soma resides, adorned by all the gods, he enjoys rare pleasures for twenty aeons. Thereafter, he enters the world of the Sun, revered by the gods, wondrous and virtuous, attended by gandharvas and apsaras. There, he enjoys auspicious pleasures for ten aeons, and then attains the exceedingly rare world of the Gandharvas. There, he enjoys all pleasures for one aeon as he wishes, and finally returns to earth, where he is born as a righteous king.