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Everywhere, at any time and at any place, a man believing in destiny should take care to mutter the Navakara, looking upon it as the only refuge. It should be recited all the more at the time of propitiation at the time of death. (72)
The Navakara is the hand in which the flag of propitiation is to be held. It is the path that leads to Svarga as the reward; it is a great protection to put a halt to the doors of downfall. (73)
At other times also this Navakara is worth studying, recitation, hearing and pondering. What then to talk about it at the time of death?
(74)
When a house is on fire, (the owner) discards all things and takes recourse to a great jewel for getting over calamity; (75)
At the time of battle the soldiers make use of a highly capable and potential weapons; (76)
Just the same way when the death is near or in calamitous times, persons whose minds are engrossed in it, are not able to ponder fully over the entire Dvadashangashruta Skandha. (77)
Therefore at the time of death, they discard the Dvadashanga and rightly resort to the memorizing of Parameshthi Namaskara and that only because that constitutes the very purport of it. (78) (Here, a question arises.) The entire Dvadashanga constitutes only the cause of resultant purity. Even the Navakara is of the nature of the same cause. Then why not prefer the former? (79)
