[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garudapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › 1.113 # Garudapurana 1.113 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.113 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.113.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.63) — 1 part ### [1.113.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 113 sūta uvāca / guṇavantaṃ niyuñjīta guṇahīnaṃ vivarjayet / paṇḍitasya guṇāḥ sarve mūrve doṣāśca kevalāḥ // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 113. > Sūta said: > One should employ a person endowed with virtues and discard one devoid of virtues; / all virtues belong to the learned man, and faults alone to the fool. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.2) sadbhirāsīta satataṃ sadbhiḥ kurvīta saṅgatim / sadbhirvivādaṃ maitrīñca nāsadbhiḥ kiñcidācaret // > One should always sit with the good, keep company with the good, / have dispute and friendship with the good, and engage in nothing with the wicked. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.3) paṇḍitaiśca virnātaiśca dharmaśaiḥ satyavādibhiḥ / bandhstho 'pi tiṣṭhecca na tu rājye khalaiḥ saha // > One may even remain in prison with the learned, the discriminating, / the knowers of dharma, and the speakers of truth, but never in a kingdom with villains. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.4) sāvaśeṣāṇi kāryāṇi kuvatrarthe yujyate / tasmātsarvāṇi kāryāṇi sāvaśeṣāṇi kārayet // > \[When\] deeds are left unfinished, \[a servant\] is employed for the sake of the master's business; / therefore, one should cause all works to be carried out leaving a remainder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.5) madhuheva duhetsāraṃ kusumañca na ghātayet / vatsāpekṣī duhetkṣīraṃ bhūmiṃ gāñcaiva pārthipaḥ // > Just as a honey-gatherer extracts the essence without destroying the flower, / \[and as\] one milks cow's milk keeping the calf in mind, so should the king \[draw taxes from\] the earth and the cow. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.6) yathākrameṇa puṣpebhyaścinute madhu ṣaṭpadaḥ / tathā vittamu pādāya rājā kurvīta sañcayam // > Just as the bee gathers honey gradually from flowers, / so the king, having taken revenue, should make a treasury. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.7) valmīkaṃ madhujālañca śuklaṇkṣe tu candramāḥ / rājadravyañca bhaikṣyañca stokaṃstokaṃ pravardhate // > An anthill, a honeycomb, the moon in the bright fortnight, / royal wealth, and alms increase little by little. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.8) arjitasya kṣayaṃ dṛṣṭā saṃpradattasya sañcayam / avandhyaṃ divasaṃ kuryāddānadhyayanakarmasu // > Seeing the depletion of what has been earned and the gathering of what has been given, / one should make not a single day barren in deeds of giving and study. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.9) vane 'pi doṣāḥ prabhavanti rāgiṇāṃ gṛhe 'pi pañcendriyanigrahastapaḥ / akutsite karmaṇi yaḥ pravartate nivṛttarāgasya gṛhaṃ tapovanam // > Even in the forest, faults arise for the passionate; even in the house, restraint of the five senses is austerity; / for one who engages in blameless action and whose passion has ceased, the home itself is a hermitage. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.10) satyena rakṣyate dharmo vidyā yogena rakṣyate / mṛjayā rakṣyate pātraṃ kulaṃ śalina rakṣyate // > Dharma is preserved by truth; learning is preserved by practice; / a vessel is preserved by cleaning; a family is preserved by good conduct. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.11) varaṃ vindhyāṭavyāṃ nivasanamabhuktasya maraṇaṃ varaṃ sarpākīrṇe śayanamatha kūpe nipatanam / varaṃ bhrāntāvarte sabhayajalamadhye praviśanaṃ na tu svīye pakṣe hi dhanamaṇu dehīti kathanam // > Better is living in the Vindhya forest, dying unfed, / better sleeping among serpents or falling into a well, / better entering into the midst of terrifying waters in a whirling eddy, / than saying to one's own kin: 'Give \[me\] even an atom of wealth.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.12) bhāgyakṣayeṣu kṣīyante nopabhogena sampadaḥ / pūrvārjite hi sukṛte na naśyanti kadācana // > Fortunes decline with the exhaustion of destiny, not through enjoyment; / when previously earned merit is present, they never perish. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.13) viprāṇāṃ bhūṣaṇaṃ vidyā pṛthivyā bhūṣaṇaṃ nṛpaḥ / nabhaso bhūṣaṇaṃ candraḥ śīlaṃ sarvasya bhūṣaṇam // > Learning is the ornament of brāhmaṇas; the king is the ornament of the earth; / the moon is the ornament of the sky; good character is the ornament of all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.14) ete te candratulyāḥ kṣitipatitanayā bhīmasenārjunādyāḥ śurāḥ satyapratijñā dinakaravapuṣaḥ keśavenopagūḍhāḥ / te vai duṣṭagrahasthāḥ kṛpaṇavaśagatā bhaikṣyacaryāṃ prayātāḥ ko vā kasminsamartho bhavati vidhivaśādbhrāmayetkarmarekhā // > Those sons of the king, equal to the moon, Bhīmasena, Arjuna, and others, brave, true to their vows, of sun-like splendour, embraced by Keśava— / even they, under the influence of evil planets, came under the sway of wretchedness and went to begging alms. Who is capable in what? The line of destiny spins \[one\] around by the force of fate. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.15) brahmā yena kulālavanniyamito brahmāṇḍabhāṇḍodare viṣṇuryena daśāvatāragahane kṣipto mahāsaṅkaṭe / rudroyena kapālapāṇipuṭake bhikṣāṭanaṃ kāritaḥ sūryo bhrāmyati nityameva gagane taramai namaḥ karṇaṇe // > By which Brahmā was constrained inside the vessel of the cosmic egg like a potter; by which Viṣṇu was cast into the great crisis of the thicket of ten incarnations; / by which Rudra was made to wander begging with a skull in the hollow of his hand; \[and by which\] the sun constantly wanders in the sky—homage to that action \[of destiny\]! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.16) dātā baliryācakako murārirdānaṃ mahī vipramukhasya madhye / dattvā phalaṃ bandhanameva labdhaṃ namo 'stu te daiva yatheṣṭakāriṇe // > The giver was Bali, the beggar was the Enemy of Mura, the gift was the earth through the brāhmaṇa's mouth; / having given, the fruit obtained was only bondage! Homage to you, Destiny, who act as you please! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.17) mātā yadi bhavellakṣmīḥ pitā sākṣājjanārdanaḥ / kubuddhau pratipattiścaittasmindaṇḍaḥ patetsadā // > Even if Lakṣmī were the mother and Janārdana himself the father, / if there is inclination toward evil intellect, punishment falls upon him constantly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.18) yenayena yathā yadvatpurā karma suniścitam / tattadevāntarā bhuṅkte svayamāhitamātmanā // > In whatever manner, by whomsoever, just as action was previously determined, / that very \[fruit\] he experiences within, brought upon oneself by oneself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.19) ātmanā vihitaṃ duḥ khamātmanā vihitaṃ sakham / garbhaśayyāmupādāya bhuṅkte vai paurvadaihikam // > Sorrow has been made by oneself, happiness has been made by oneself; / taking up the bed of the womb, one indeed experiences what was done in a previous body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.20) na cāntarikṣe na samudramadhye na parvatānāṃ vivarapraveśe / na mātṛmūrdhni pradhṛtastathāṅke tyaktuṃ kṣamaḥ karma kṛtaṃ naro hi // > Neither in the intermediate space, nor in the midst of the ocean, nor entering into a crevice of the mountains, / nor held upon the mother's head or lap, is a man able to escape the action he has done. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.21) dugastrikūṭaḥ parikhā samudro rakṣāṃsi yodhāḥ paramā ca vṛttiḥ / śāstrañca vai tūśanasā pradiṣṭaṃ sa rāvaṇaḥ kālavaśādvinaṣṭaḥ // > The fortress was Trikūṭa, the moat was the ocean, the warriors were demons, the livelihood was supreme, / and the science of policy was taught by Uśanas; yet that Rāvaṇa was destroyed by the power of Time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.22) yasminvayasi yatkāle yaddivā yacca vā niśi / yanmuhūrte kṣaṇe vāpi tattathā na tadanyathā // > At whatever age, at whatever time, whether by day or by night, / at whatever muhūrta or moment—it happens just so, not otherwise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.23) gacchanti cāntarikṣe vā praviśanti mahītale / dhārayanti diśaḥ sarvā nādattamupalabhyate // > Whether they go into the intermediate space or enter into the earth, / or take shelter in all the directions, what was not given \[in a past life\] is not obtained. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.24) purādhītā ca yā vidyā purā dattañca yaddhanam / purā kṛtāni karmāṇi hyagre dhāvanti dhāvataḥ // > The knowledge studied in the past, the wealth given in the past, / and the actions done in the past indeed run ahead of the runner. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.25) karmāṇyatra pradhānāni samyagṛkṣe śubhagrahe / vasiṣṭhakṛtalagnāpi jānakī duḥ khabhājanam // > Actions alone are primary here; even under a favorable asterism and auspicious planet, / and though having the auspicious moment cast by Vasiṣṭha, Jānakī became a vessel of sorrow. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.26) sthūlajaṅgho yadā rāmaḥ śabdagāmī ca lakṣmaṇaḥ / ghanakeśī yadā sītā trayaste duḥ khabhājanam // > When Rāma had stout calves, and Lakṣmaṇa moved \[guided\] by sound, / and Sītā had thick hair, all three became vessels of suffering. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.27) na pituḥ karmaṇā putraḥ pitā vā putrakarmaṇā / svayaṃ kṛtena gacchanti svayaṃ baddhāḥ svakarmaṇā // > A son does not \[suffer\] by his father's action, nor a father by the son's action; / bound individually by their own karma, they go by what they have done themselves. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.28) karmajanyaśarīreṣu rogāḥ śarīramānasāḥ / śarā iva patantīha vimuktā dṛḍhadhanvibhiḥ // > Upon bodies born of karma, bodily and mental diseases / fall here like arrows loosed by steadfast archers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.29) anyathā śāstragārbhiṇyā dhiyā dhīror'thamīhate / svāmivatprākkṛtaṃ karma vidadhāti tadanyathā // > A resolute man pursues a goal with a mind replete with learning in one way; / like a master, karma done formerly ordains it otherwise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.30) bālo yuvā ca vṛddhaśca yaḥ karoti śubhāśubham / tasyāntasyāmavasthāyāṃ bhuṅkte janmanijanmani // > Whether as a child, a youth, or an elder, whatever good or evil \[action\] one does, / in that very stage of life one experiences \[its fruit\] birth after birth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.31) anīkṣamāṇo 'pi naro videśastho 'pi mānavaḥ / svakarmapātavātena nīyate yatra tatphalam // > Even an unaware man, even a man staying in a foreign land, / is borne by the wind of his own karma's falling to where its fruit lies. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.32) prāptavyamarthaṃ labhate manuṣyo devo 'pi taṃ vārayituṃ na śaktaḥ / ato na śocāmi na vismayo me lalāṭalekhā na punaḥ prayāti (yadasmadīyaṃ na tu tat pareṣām // > A human being obtains the thing destined to be obtained; even a god is not able to avert it. / Therefore I do not grieve, nor do I wonder: the writing on the forehead does not depart; what is ours is not others'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.33) sarpaḥ kūpe gajaḥ skandhe bila ākhuśca dhāvati / naraḥ śīghratarādeva karmaṇaḥ kaḥ palāyate // > The snake runs into a well, the elephant to a shoulder \[of a mountain\], and the mouse into a hole; / a person runs swiftly indeed: who escapes from karma? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.34) nālpā bhavati sadvidyā dīyamānāpi vardhate / kūpasthamiva pānīyaṃ bhavatyeva bahūdakam // > True knowledge does not become small; even when given away, it grows; / just like water in a well, it truly becomes abundant water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.35) yer'thā dharmeṇa te satyā ye 'dharmeṇa gatāḥ śriyaḥ / dharmārtho ca mahāṃlloke tatsmṛtvā hyarthakāraṇāt // > The wealth that comes by dharma is true; those riches that depart are by adharma. / For dharma and wealth are great in the world; remembering that, one should act for the sake of wealth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.36) annārtho yāni duḥ khāni karoti kṛpaṇo janaḥ / tānyeva yadi dharmārtho na bhūyaḥ kleśabhājanam // > Whatever miseries a wretched person undergoes for the sake of food, / if he endured those very ones for the sake of dharma, he would no longer be a vessel of affliction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.37) sarveṣāmeva śaucānāmannaśaucaṃ viśiṣyate / yo 'nnārthaiḥ śuciḥ śaucānna mṛdā vāriṇā śuciḥ // > Of all purifications, purification of food is deemed superior; / he who is pure through righteous acquisition of food is pure through purification, not he who is pure by clay and water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.38) satyaṃ śaucaṃ manaḥ śaucaṃ śaucamindriyanigrahaḥ / sarvabhūte dayā śaucaṃ jalaśaucañca pañcamam // > Truth is purification, purity of mind is purification, restraint of the senses is purification, / compassion toward all beings is purification, and purification by water is the fifth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.39) yasya satyañca śaucañca tasya svargo na durlabhaḥ / satyaṃ hi vacanaṃ yasya so 'śvamedhādviśiṣyate // > He who possesses truth and purity finds heaven not difficult to attain; / he whose speech is true surpasses \[the merit of\] a horse sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.40) mṛttikānāṃ sahasreṇa codakānāṃ śatena hi / na śudhyati durācāro bhāvopahatacetanaḥ // > Even with a thousand lumps of earth and a hundred waters, / a man of wicked conduct, his mind corrupted in intention, is not purified. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.41) yasya hastau ca pādau ca manaścaiva susaṃyatam / vidyā tapaśca kīrtiśca sa tīrthaphalamaśnute // > He whose hands, feet, and mind are well-restrained, / who has learning, austerity, and renown, attains the fruit of pilgrimage. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.42) na prahṛṣyati saṃmānairnāvamānaiḥ prakupyati / na kruddhaḥ paruṣaṃ brūyādetatsādhostu lakṣaṇam // > He is not elated by honors, nor is he enraged by insults; / when angered, he does not speak harsh words: this is the mark of a virtuous man. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.43) daridrasya manuṣyasya prājñasya madhurasya ca / kāle śrutvā hitaṃ vākyaṃ na kaścitparituṣyati // > Though hearing timely, beneficial words from a poor man / who is wise and agreeable, no one is pleased. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.44) na mantrabalavīryeṇa prajñayā pauruṣeṇa ca / alabhyaṃ labhyate martyaistatra kā parivedanā // > What is unobtainable cannot be obtained by mortals through the power of mantras, vigor, / intellect, or human effort; what lamentation can there be over that? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.45) ayācito mayā labdho punarmatpreṣaṇādgataḥ / yatrāgatastatra gatastatra kā parivedanā // > Unasked for, he was obtained by me; again, at my sending, he has departed. / He has gone whence he came; what lamentation can there be over that? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.46) ekavṛkṣe sadā rātrau nānāpakṣisamāgamaḥ / prabhāte 'nyadiśo yānti kā tatra parivedanā // > Upon a single tree at night there is a gathering of various birds; / at dawn they go in different directions; what lamentation can there be over that? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.47) ekasārthaprayātānā sarveṣāntatra gāminām / yastvekastvarito yāti kā tatra parivedanā // > Among all those travelling together who set out in a single caravan, / if one goes swiftly ahead, what lamentation can there be over that? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.48) avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyaktamadhyāni śaunaka / avyaktanidhanānyenava kā tatra parivedanā // > Beings have an unmanifest beginning, a manifest middle, O Śaunaka, / and an unmanifest end; what lamentation can there be over that? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.49) nāprāptakālo mriyate viddhaḥ śaraśatairapi / kuśāgreṇa tu saṃspṛṣṭaṃ prāptakālo na jīvati // > One whose time has not arrived does not die, even if pierced by hundreds of arrows; / but touched merely by the tip of a kuśa blade, one whose time has arrived does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.50) labdhavyānyeva labhate gantavyānyeva gacchati / prāptavyānyeva prāpnāti duḥ khāni ca sukhāni ca // > One obtains only what is to be obtained; one goes only where one is destined to go; / one experiences only what is to be experienced, both sorrows and joys. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.51) tattatprāpnoti puruṣaḥ ki pralāpaiḥ kariṣyati / ācodyamānāni yathā puṣpāṇi ca phalāni ca / svakālaṃ nātivartante tathā karma purākṛtam // > A person meets with this and that; what will he accomplish with lamentations? / Just as flowers and fruits, when impelled, / do not pass by their proper season, so too does karma performed in the past. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.52) śīlaṃ kulaṃ naiva na caiva vidyā jñānaṃ guṇā naiva na bījaśuddhiḥ / bhāgyāni pūrvaṃ tapasārjitāni kāle phalantyasya yathaiva vṛkṣāḥ // > Neither conduct, nor lineage, nor learning, nor knowledge, nor virtues, nor purity of seed \[matter\]; / fortunes earned earlier through austerity bear fruit for him in due time, just like trees. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.53) tatra mṛtyuryatra hantā tatra śrīryatra sampadaḥ / tatra tatra svayaṃ yāti preryamāṇaḥ svakarmabhiḥ // > Death is there where the slayer is; fortune is there where prosperities are; / there and there one goes of oneself, driven by one's own karmas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.54) bhūtapūrvaṃ kṛtaṃ karma kartāramanutiṣṭhati / yathā dhenusahasreṣu vatso vindanti mātaram // > Karma performed formerly follows the doer, / just as a calf among thousands of cows finds its mother. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.55) evaṃ pūrvakṛtaṃ karma kartāramanutiṣṭhāti / sukṛtaṃ bhuṅkṣva cātmīyaṃ mūḍha kiṃ paritapyase // > Thus karma performed formerly follows the doer. / Enjoy your own good deed, fool; why do you torment yourself? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.56) yathā pūrvakṛtaṃ karma śubhaṃ vā yadi vāśubham / tathā janmāntare tadvai kartā ramanugacchati // > Just as karma was performed formerly, whether auspicious or inauspicious, / even so it truly follows the doer into another birth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.57) nīcaḥ sarṣapamātrāṇi paracchidrāṇi paśyati / ātmano balivamātrāṇi paśyannapi na paśyati // > A low person sees the faults of others though small as mustard seeds; / his own, though large as bilva fruits, he does not see even while looking. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.58) rāgadveṣādiyuktānāṃ na sukhaṃ kutraciddvija / vicārya khalu paśyāmi tatsukhaṃ yatra nirvṛtiḥ // > For those endowed with passion, hatred, and the like, there is no happiness anywhere, O twice-born; / examining it indeed, I see that true happiness is where there is tranquil release. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.59) yatra sneho bhayaṃ tatra sneho duḥ khasya bhājanam / snehamūlāni duḥ khāni tasmistyakte mahatsukham // > Where there is attachment, there is fear; attachment is a vessel of grief; / sorrows have their root in attachment; when that is abandoned, there is great happiness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.60) śarīramevāyatanaṃ duḥ khasya ca sukhasya ca / jīvitañca śarīrañca jātyaiva saha jāyate // > The body alone is the abode of both sorrow and happiness; / life and the body are born together by nature itself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.61) sarvaṃ paravaśaṃ duḥ khaṃ sarva mātmavaśaṃ sukham / etadvidyātsamāsena lakṣaṇaṃ sukhaduḥ khayoḥ // > All dependence on others is sorrow; all self-reliance is happiness. / One should know this in brief as the definition of pleasure and pain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.62) sukhasyānantaraṃ duḥ khaṃ duḥ khasyānantaraṃ sukham / śukhaṃ duḥ khaṃ manuṣyāṇāṃ cakravatparivartate // > After pleasure comes sorrow; after sorrow comes pleasure; / pleasure and sorrow revolve like a wheel for human beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.63) yadgataṃ tadatikrāntaṃ yadi syāttacca dūrataḥ / vartamānena varteta na sa śokena bādhyate // > What is gone is past; if it is to be, it is far off; / he who conducts himself with the present is not afflicted by grief. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.113.63.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.63.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe bṛhadṛ nītisāre trayośottaraśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the one hundred and thirteenth chapter, in the Bṛhannītisāra of the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first part called the Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (6) - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.74.8) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Rājanītiśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.gnomic.niti.rajanitisastra.5.36) — Cāṇakya, Sanskrit - [Itihāsasamuccaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.itihasasamuccaya.2.53) — Sanskrit - [Puruṣārthasudhānidhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.daksinatya.purusarthasudhanidhi.23.1) — Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit - [Pañcākhyānaka (textus ornatior)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.pancatantra*purnabhadra.5.157) — Pūrṇabhadra, Sanskrit - [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.8.92) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113) · Pramāṇa