Concluding upadesha for the Bhaktas of Bhagavan Shree Vishnu from "Shree Vasudeva-Mahatmya" are just brilliant.
They are for sannyasins, but I assume that any decent bhakta of Bhagavan Shree Vishnu must follow sannyasins' code of conduct.
"SHREE VASUDEVA-MAHATMYA", CHAPTER 09
Bhagavan Shree Vasudeva said:
09.32. The religious duty of the devotees of Shree Vasudeva endowed with intense aversion to objects of worldly pleasure is proclaimed as his (i.e. Vasudeva's) service, day and night.
09.33. Not a single moment of those endowed with profound knowledge (Gyana), both spiritual and secular, is vain (wasted) without being engaged in some form of Devotion consisiting of 9 types.
09.34. The devotees of Bhagavan Shree Vishnu should straightaway abandon a person who, though endowed with all good qualities, is averse to the Lord, even if that person happens to be a relative.
09.35. People who are the followers of Bhagavan Shree Krishna should eat everyday the food which is offered to Bhagavan Shree Hari, is sprinkled with the water with which His Feet are washed, and mixed with leaves of Tulasi plant.
09.36. Contact with women or those who are addicted to women, should be totally avoided by persons meditating on Bhagavan Shree Vishnu. Otherwise they will be meditating on them (i.e. women).
09.37. There is definitely no other man, except the venerable Lord Shree Vasudeva, who is not infatuated in looking at a woman.
09.38. A renunciator (i.e. a recluse, sannyasin) should never stay at a place by occupying which one frequently hears the speech and gets the sight of women. If he stays there, he falls from his religious duty.
09.39. Desire, greed, taste for flavours, affection, pride, anger - these 6 defects should be avoided with special efforts, as they lead to Samsara.
09.40. If there be failure in observing any of the religious duties proclaimed here, it should be expiated to the best of one's capacity as per religious injunctions.
09.41. Thus the religious duties of four Varnas and Ashramas as well as those of Vaishnavas have been briefly proclaimed by me, O Narada.
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