O wide-eyed goddess, listen as the Lord reveals the consequences and remedies for errors committed in worship and related duties. If one offers flowers improperly, without the right action, even if their mind is pure and they seek to please the Lord, there are still effects that follow from such mistakes. For those devotees, intent on action and purification, the Lord explains the means by which they may be cleansed. First, know that for certain offenses, a soul may be rendered mute for five years, then reborn as an ox for twelve years, and for another three years, as a buffalo. Such is the outcome for improper offerings. Yet, there is a way to atone: the devotee should perform the hero’s posture seven times each, and for three days, subsist either on barley food or on air alone. By observing this, one is freed from all major sins and attains the Lord’s celestial realm. Thus concludes the teaching on expiation for offenses in worship, as told in the glorious Varaha Purana. Now, O Earth, hear of further expiations for other offenses. If someone eats using a net or with their feet, or approaches the Lord wearing red garments, or during the time of a woman’s monthly flow, such a person must reside in a lower state for ten or five years. But the Lord, compassionate, declares the means for purification: for ten or seven days, the person should eat only one meal a day. By this practice, he is released from what causes displeasure to the Lord. O Earth, adorned with red garments, know this as the remedy. But if anyone approaches the Lord in darkness, without a lamp, the Lord reveals their fall: such a person becomes blind in their next birth, living one life enveloped in darkness. To atone, with a mind fixed solely on penance, the person should eat only once a day for twenty days, focusing their mind, and then continue, subsisting on water alone. By this expiation, the sin is removed. If someone, even with the intent to reach the Lord’s world, touches Him in such a state, further acts of atonement are required. The soul may be reborn as a mongoose for five years, a tortoise for ten, and then among pigeons for fourteen years. Yet, after these births, the soul remains near the Lord, at His very side, and by this proximity, attains perfection, especially if the offense was due to wearing black garments during worship. To be freed from such sin, one should offer three balls of food for three nights. Thus purified and devoted, the soul follows the Lord’s path. If someone makes offerings with unwashed garments, the Lord declares their fault: such a person becomes a mad elephant for one birth, a jackal for another, and a horse for one more. After seven further births, the soul returns to human form, now skilled, faultless, and free from pride, as the Lord Himself has proclaimed. Even the remnants of garments can lead humans into the cycle of transmigration. But listen, O sinless one, to the truth: those devoted to the Lord’s actions, if they follow the prescribed expiations, are freed from sin and its consequences. The Lord, in His compassion, reveals the proper expiation for those who are steadfast in action and devotion, so that all may attain purity and liberation.