इन्द्रमिन्द्रियकामस्तु प्रजाकामः प्रजापतीन् ॥२॥
देवीं मायां तु श्रीकामस्तेजस्कामो विभावसुम् ।
वसुकामो वसून्रुद्रान्वीर्यकामोऽथ वीर्यवान् ॥३॥
अन्नाद्यकामस्त्वदितिं स्वर्गकामोऽदितेः सुतान् ।
विश्वान्देवान्राज्यकामः साध्यान्संसाधको विशाम् ॥४॥
आयुष्कामोऽश्विनौ देवौ पुष्टिकाम इलां यजेत् ।
प्रतिष्ठाकामः पुरुषो रोदसी लोकमातरौ ॥५॥
रूपाभिकामो गन्धर्वान्स्त्रीकामोऽप्सर उर्वशीम् ।
आधिपत्यकामः सर्वेषां यजेत परमेष्ठिनम् ॥६॥
यज्ञं यजेद्यशस्कामः कोशकामः प्रचेतसम् ।
विद्याकामस्तु गिरिशं दाम्पत्यार्थ उमां सतीम् ॥७॥
brahma-varcasa-kÄmas tu
yajeta brahmaṇaḥ patim
indram indriya-kÄmas tu
prajÄ-kÄmaḥ prajÄpatÄ«n
devÄ«á¹ mÄyÄá¹ tu Å›rÄ«-kÄmas
tejas-kÄmo vibhÄvasum
vasu-kÄmo vasÅ«n rudrÄn
vÄ«rya-kÄmo 'tha vÄ«ryavÄn
annÄdya-kÄmas tv aditiá¹
svarga-kÄmo 'diteḥ sutÄn
viÅ›vÄn devÄn rÄjya-kÄmaḥ
sÄdhyÄn saá¹sÄdhako viÅ›Äm
Äyuá¹£-kÄmo 'Å›vinau devau
puá¹£á¹i-kÄma ilÄá¹ yajet
pratiá¹£á¹hÄ-kÄmaḥ puruá¹£o
rodasÄ« loka-mÄtarau
rÅ«pÄbhikÄmo gandharvÄn
strÄ«-kÄmo 'psara urvaśīm
Ädhipatya-kÄmaḥ sarveá¹£Äá¹
yajeta parameá¹£á¹hinam
yajñaá¹ yajed yaÅ›as-kÄmaḥ
koÅ›a-kÄmaḥ pracetasam
vidyÄ-kÄmas tu giriÅ›aá¹
dÄmpatyÄrtha umÄá¹ satÄ«m
2 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LSB(2)
brahma - the absolute; varcasa - effulgence; kÄmaḥ tu - but one who desires in that way; yajeta - do worship; brahmaṇaḥ - of the Vedas; patim - the master; indram - the King of heaven; indriya-kÄmaḥ tu - but one who desires strong sense organs; prajÄ-kÄmaḥ - one who desires many offspring; prajÄpatÄ«n - the PrajÄpatis; devÄ«m - the goddess; mÄyÄm - unto the mistress of the material world; tu - but; Å›rÄ«-kÄmaḥ - one who desires beauty; tejaḥ - power; kÄmaḥ - one who so desires; vibhÄvasum - the fire-god; vasu-kÄmaḥ - one who wants wealth; vasÅ«n - the Vasu demigods; rudrÄn - the Rudra expansions of Lord Åšiva; vÄ«rya-kÄmaḥ - one who wants to be very strongly built; atha - therefore; vÄ«ryavÄn - the most powerful; anna-adya - grains; kÄmaḥ - one who so desires; tu - but; aditim - Aditi, mother of the demigods; svarga - heaven; kÄmaḥ - so desiring; aditeḥ sutÄn - the sons of Aditi; viÅ›vÄn - ViÅ›vadeva; devÄn - demigods; rÄjya-kÄmaḥ - those who hanker for kingdoms; sÄdhyÄn - the SÄdhya demigods; saá¹sÄdhakaḥ - what fulfills the wishes; viÅ›Äm - of the mercantile community; Äyuḥ-kÄmaḥ - desirous of long life; aÅ›vinau - the two demigods known as the AÅ›vinÄ« brothers; devau - the two demigods; puá¹£á¹i-kÄmaḥ - one who desires a strongly built body; ilÄm - the earth; yajet - must worship; pratiá¹£á¹hÄ-kÄmaḥ - one who desires good fame, or stability in a post; puruá¹£aḥ - such men; rodasÄ« - the horizon; loka-mÄtarau - and the earth; rÅ«pa - beauty; abhikÄmaḥ - positively aspiring for; gandharvÄn - the residents of the Gandharva planet, who are very beautiful and are expert in singing; strÄ«-kÄmaḥ - one who desires a good wife; apsaraḥ urvaśīm - the society girls of the heavenly kingdom; Ädhipatya-kÄmaḥ - one who desires to dominate others; sarveá¹£Äm - everyone; yajeta - must worship; parameá¹£á¹hinam - BrahmÄ, the head of the universe; yajñam - the Personality of Godhead; yajet - must worship; yaÅ›aḥ-kÄmaḥ - one who desires to be famous; koÅ›a-kÄmaḥ - one who desires a good bank balance; pracetasam - the treasurer of heaven, known as Varuṇa; vidyÄ-kÄmaḥ tu - but one who desires education; giriÅ›am - the lord of the Himalayas, Lord Åšiva; dÄmpatya-arthaḥ - and for conjugal love; umÄm satÄ«m - the chaste wife of Lord Åšiva, known as UmÄ.
One who desires to be absorbed in the impersonal brahmajyoti effulgence should worship the master of the Vedas [Lord BrahmÄ or Bá¹›haspati, the learned priest], one who desires powerful sex should worship the heavenly King, Indra, and one who desires good progeny should worship the great progenitors called the PrajÄpatis. One who desires good fortune should worship DurgÄdevÄ«, the superintendent of the material world. One desiring to be very powerful should worship fire, and one who aspires only after money should worship the Vasus. One should worship the Rudra incarnations of Lord Åšiva if he wants to be a great hero. One who wants a large stock of grains should worship Aditi. One who desires to attain the heavenly planets should worship the sons of Aditi. One who desires a worldly kingdom should worship ViÅ›vadeva, and one who wants to be popular with the general mass of population should worship the SÄdhya demigod. One who desires a long span of life should worship the demigods known as the AÅ›vinÄ«-kumÄras, and a person desiring a strongly built body should worship the earth. One who desires stability in his post should worship the horizon and the earth combined. One who desires to be beautiful should worship the beautiful residents of the Gandharva planet, and one who desires a good wife should worship the ApsarÄs and the Urvaśī society girls of the heavenly kingdom. One who desires domination over others should worship Lord BrahmÄ, the head of the universe. One who desires tangible fame should worship the Personality of Godhead, and one who desires a good bank balance should worship the demigod Varuṇa. If one desires to be a greatly learned man he should worship Lord Åšiva, and if one desires a good marital relation he should worship the chaste goddess UmÄ, the wife of Lord Åšiva.
There are different modes of worship for different persons desiring success in particular subjects. The conditioned soul living within the purview of the material world cannot be an expert in every type of materially enjoyable asset, but one can have considerable influence over a particular matter by worshiping a particular demigod, as mentioned above. RÄvaṇa was made a very powerful man by worshiping Lord Åšiva, and he used to offer severed heads to please Lord Åšiva. He became so powerful by the grace of Lord Åšiva that all the demigods were afraid of him, until he at last challenged the Personality of Godhead ÅšrÄ« RÄmacandra and thus ruined himself. In other words, all such persons who aspire after gaining some or all of the material objects of enjoyment, or the gross materialistic persons, are on the whole less intelligent, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (7.20). It is said there that those who are bereft of all good sense, or those whose intelligence is withdrawn by the deluding energy of mÄyÄ, aspire to achieve all sorts of material enjoyment in life by pleasing the various demigods, or by advancing in material civilization under the heading of scientific progress. The real problem of life in the material world is to solve the question of birth, death, old age and disease. No one wants to change his birthright, no one wants to meet death, no one wants to be old or invalid, and no one wants diseases. But these problems are solved neither by the grace of any demigod nor by the so-called advancement of material science. In the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ, as well as in the ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam, such less intelligent persons have been described as devoid of all good sense. Åšukadeva GosvÄmÄ« said that out of the 8,400,000 species of living entities, the human form of life is rare and valuable, and out of those rare human beings those who are conscious of the material problems are rarer still, and the still more rare persons are those who are conscious of the value of the ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam, which contains the messages of the Lord and His pure devotees. Death is inevitable for everyone, intelligent or foolish. But ParÄ«ká¹£it MahÄrÄja has been addressed by the GosvÄmÄ« as the manīṣī, or the man of highly developed mind, because at the time of death he left all material enjoyment and completely surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Lord by hearing His messages from the right person, Åšukadeva GosvÄmÄ«. But aspirations for material enjoyment by endeavoring persons are condemned. Such aspirations are something like the intoxication of the degraded human society. Intelligent persons should try to avoid these aspirations and seek instead the permanent life by returning home, back to Godhead.
