Acts And Practices To Be A Demon

Our Holy scriptures (Puranas) are the destination of religious and nonreligious judgments.  'Magh Mahatmya' is one of them.  There are descriptions in the 30 chapters of those who become demons after death.

It says that if a rich man does not practice charity, he becomes a demon.  A person who sells a woman's jewelry, kidnaps a boy's property, destroys someone else's property in times of crisis, burns the house and finds happiness, hurts the blind, the blind, or the like, becomes a demon after death.

It also states that a person who steals the wealth of a sick person, separates himself with his wife without nurturing his parents, commits a great sin, and the gods give birth to him as a demon and punish him severely.

In this order there is a description of how the Lord Vishnu devotee becomes a demon.  According to him, there was a king in the land of Dravid named Chitraraja.  He was an ignorant and devout Vishnu.  One day when he went to a saint monastery called Jatal, the saint forbade him to worship Vishnu.  Said, there is no benefit in reciting the Vedas and worshiping Vishnu;  You worship Shiva.  Influenced by this, the king threw all the idols of Vishnu in the state into the water and demolished all the temples and mandapas of Vishnu.  The Vishnu priest expelled the saints from the kingdom.

Later, when the king died, the Yamans tied him up and punished him severely, and at the behest of Yam, he was thrown into hell.  Later, Yam gave birth to a demon.  It was then that Chitraraja realized his mistake.  On the advice of the Vedic Brahmin, a Vedic scholar Brahmin named Devabrata of the ancient country, he was saved from the birth of a demon by taking a bath in Makar at the Prayag Tirtha.

This mythological account speaks of the merits of bathing and worshiping of lord Vishnu (Vishnupujan).  We have been warned that if a person does insult of Vishnu (Vishnuninda) and wrongdoing, he becomes a demon after death.

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