"By
lighting another's lamp during the month of Karttika one attains the
same result as if he had offered food on pitru-paksa or water on Jyaistha
asadha.
"By
serving the Vaishnavas and lighting the lamps they offer during the
month of Karttika one attains the result of performing many rajasuya and
asvamedha yajnas.
"O
tiger of kings, a person who in Lord Krishna's temple lights the lamps
that others will offer during the month of Karttika becomes free from
the tortures of Yamaraja.
"O
king of brahmanas, by lighting the lamps that others will offer during
the month of Karttika one attains the result of having performed many
great yajnas.
"Somehow
or other a mouse once lit a lamp that someone offered on Ekadashi during
the month of Karttika. That mouse attained a rare human birth and then
went to the supreme spiritual world.
