- One who grows trees by the roadside, one who digs public tanks and lakes: The highway to Pitrloka is very happy and playful. After death, generally, all souls go there, to be judged.
Note: Pitrloka is the heavenly capital of Yama, as an embassy or enclave, amidst hell. There is another Pitrloka at the other side of the moon; the side always turned away for mortals on earth. Both lokas are invisible for gross material senses. They are higher–dimensional or subtle, of the same invisible substance as is our mind, intelligence and false ego, or as ghosts, aliens, witches, fairies are ultra-fine, intangible. These entities can sometimes become gross materially visible.
- Give fuel on earth: one is not tortured by snowfall, ice, chillness on the path to the court of Yamaraja; his way to Yamaraja is warm and pleasant.
- Give land: go along that road fully satisfied, decorated and richly adorned by fragrant flowers.
- Give a bed: next life one will have a bed in heaven till the end of the day of Brahma or andha-pralaya. (Then the material heavens will be destroyed, and the residents will go to Mahar-loka. The activities in the universe will be stopped during the night of Brahma.)
- Give a daughter to brahmana: with the whole family one will go to Indraloka.
- Give to a grhasta brahmana: house, cow, ornaments etc. : will go for 35 million years to heaven.
- If a woman can do the sati rite: he, she plus 3 generations will go to heaven.
– A woman entering with the body of her dead husband the flaming funeral pile, she enjoys in heaven as many hundreds of years as there are hairs on the human body
- One giving just a morsel of bread to a needy: one will go to heaven, in a vimana.
- Offer betelnut - one will in one’s next life have a healthy, red throat and a voice sweet like nectar.
- Give shoes and palanquins to brahmana’s - will go to Pitraloka, along a path in the sky seated within a flying vimana.
- Give garments - one will go to Pitrloka wearing divine garments.
- Give even gifts of the measure of what fits on the tip of the hair - this godliness will give immeasurably multiplied good fruits.
- Give food - one will get the fruit of having given everything; giving food is the best and godliest of all gifts.
- One practicing religion, with the practices of penance, truth, forgiveness, charity, avoiding sleeping in the day, studying of the Vedas etc - will go to heaven.
- Those who are averse to all kinds of harm, who help everyone and give shelter to all, who are averse to accepting any gift for oneself – such a person will go to heaven.
- One who never speaks of other’s faults even of those of their enemies, but on the contrary describes their virtues, who is not distressed through jealousy on seeing the wealth of others but are delighted and congratulates them – will go to heaven.
- Who never speak disagreeable words, who even oppressed with hunger and thirst, share their food, who are truthful with liars, straightforward with the crooked, equanimeous or friendly even with enemies – will go to heaven.
- Protect like their own sons even insects like lice, bugs, gadflies and so on that prick the body – go to heaven.
– Those who do not dally with other’s wives, physically, mentally or in speech – go to heaven.
- By giving a cow one will always prosper with desired objects (wealth, health, pleasure).
- Give gold – one will in one’s next life have a good complexion, be rich, heroic and an enjoyer of gems and gold.
- One giving sesame seeds at the time of death – will go to Visnu’s world.
- Carry or maintain a helpless person, poor brahmana or one who is dependent - he will be honoured in heaven by the demigods and demigoddesses, for this godlikeness, for as many thousands of years as the number of hairs on the bodies of the persons that are born in his family.
- Those doing the 5 yajna's (to the deva’s, rsi’s, pitrs, guests and general living beings), who dig wells etc. ; do all the prescribed acts of charity and are always full of compassion – go to heaven.
- Brave ksatriyas, on whose faces there is never sadness, who died in battle – go to heaven.
- A person who makes a gift of Brahman (i.e the Veda) will attain Brahma's world for his godlikenesses.
– One who builds a temple and installs the.
- He who receives gifts with faith and he who gives away with faith, both will get heaven.
– One who builds a temple and installs the Deities - he definitely gets the respective world of that Deity and as much as the things given e.g. the building materials, furniture, he enjoys wealth in that heaven. As many glorious temples a man builds for that many number of births he shines with fame in heaven for this godlike acts. If one builds a temple for Krishna or Visnu, one goes beyond the material universes, to Krishna's or Visnu's planet.
By making paintings for or painting in a temple, he will enjoy in the company of gandharvas or artisans, laborers in the respective heaven of that temple murti.
By renovating the temple - he becomes free from diseases.
By sprinkling, cleaning the temple - one gets free from mental agonies, the dust in the mind, for these godly acts.
By gifting decorations or flowers to temples - one gets much wealth.
By making the temple lovely to the sight - one is born beautiful.
By bathing the murti with oil or ghee - one becomes free from diseases.
By offering water to the Deity – one gets mental satisfaction.
By feeding the cows of others during the winter season, one gets heaven for 600 years.
One who supplies water for the cows, on the cows pasturing grounds - gets Varunaloka for ten thousand years, and complete satisfaction wherever he is born afterwards; after descending from heaven.
– One who feeds cows and then only, afterwards, himself eats, for a year – gets Goloka for as long as the manvantara continues. (this Goloka is situated above Brahmaloka, mostly cows live here. It is a material planet, a heavenly planet with demigods and demigoddesses.)
By saving someone from a lion or tiger or from drowning - gets enjoyment in heaven till the end of the creation.
By giving medicine to a cow - he is born healthy.
Those who are happy in the happiness of others and unhappy in the unhappiness of others, thus following the religious principles, for their godlinesses – go to heaven.
-Those who abstain from 1. madhu (=wine) or panam, taking any intoxication,
2. suna, meat,
3. striya, illicit sex,
4. dyutam, gambling,
will go to heaven.
