[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) › 1.228 # Garudapurana 1.228 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.228 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.228.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.20) — 1 part ### [1.228.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 228 sūtauvāca / muktihetumanādyantamajamavyayamakṣayam / yo namet sarvalokasya namasyo jāyate naraḥ // > The Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa: \[Chapter\] 228. / Sūta said: / The man who bows to the cause of liberation, who is without beginning or end, unborn, imperishable, and inexhaustible, / becomes worthy of being bowed to by the whole world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.2) viṣṇumānandamadvaitaṃ vijñānaṃ sarvagaṃ prabhum / praṇamāmi sadā bhaktyā cetasā hṛdayālayam // > I always bow with devotion, with my mind, to Viṣṇu, who is bliss, non-dual, / consciousness, all-pervading, the Lord residing in the temple of the heart. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.3) yo 'ntastiṣṭhannaśeṣasya paśyatīśaḥ śubhāśubham / taṃ sarvasākṣiṇaṃ viṣṇuṃ namasye parameśvaram // > He who, abiding within everything, as the Lord sees the auspicious and the inauspicious— / to that Viṣṇu, the witness of all, the Supreme Lord, I bow. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.4) śaktenāpi namaskāraḥ prayuktaścakrapāṇaye / saṃsāratṛṇavargāṇāmudvejanakaro hi saḥ // > A bow offered to the Discus-bearing Lord, even by a competent person, / brings terror to the grass of saṃsāra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.5) kṛṣṇe sphurajjaladharodaracārukṛṣṇe lokādhikārapuruṣe paramaprameye / eko hi bhāvaguṇamātradṛḍhapraṇāmaḥ sadyaḥ śvapākamapi sādhayituṃ saśaktaḥ // > To Kṛṣṇa, charmingly dark like the belly of a gleaming raincloud, the ruler-person of the worlds, the supreme object of knowledge, / a single firm bow made with the quality of pure feeling is capable of instantly elevating even an outcaste. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.6) praṇamya daṇḍabadbhūmau namaskāreṇa yor'cayet / sa yāṃ gatimavāpnoti na tāṃ kratuśatairapi // > One who prostrates like a stick upon the earth and worships with a bow / attains a destination that one cannot attain even through a hundred sacrifices. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.7) durgasaṃsārakāntārākūpāre 'pi pradhāvatām / ekaḥ kṛṣṇe namaskāro muktyā tāṃstārayiṣyati // > For those racing even toward the ocean-abyss of the impassable forest of saṃsāra, / a single bow to Kṛṣṇa will carry them across through liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.8) āsīno vā śayāno vātiṣṭhan vā yatra tatra vā / namo nārāyaṇāyeti mantraikaśaraṇo bhavet // > Whether sitting or lying down, standing, or wherever one may be, / one should have the mantra 'Homage to Nārāyaṇa' as one's sole refuge. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.9) nārāyaṇeti śabdo 'sti vāgasti vaśavartinī / tathāpi narake mūḍhāḥ patantīti kimadbhutam // > The word 'Nārāyaṇa' exists; the faculty of speech is under control; / yet fools fall into hell—what a wonder! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.10) caturmukho vā yadi koṭivaktro bhavennaraḥ kopi viśuddhacetāḥ / sa vai guṇānāmayutaikadeśaṃ vadenna vā devavarasya viṣṇoḥ // > Even if a man with a pure mind had four faces or ten million mouths, / he could scarcely proclaim a ten-thousandth part of the virtues of Viṣṇu, the best of gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.11) vyāsādyā munayaḥ sarve stuvanto madhusūdanam / matikṣayānnivartante na govindaguṇakṣayāt // > All the sages, Vyāsa and the rest, praising Madhusūdana, / cease because their intellects are exhausted, not because Govinda's virtues are exhausted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.12) avaśenāpi yannāmni kīrtite sarvapātakaiḥ / pumān vimucyate sadyaḥ siṃhatrasto mṛgā yathā / baddhaḥ parikarastena mokṣāya gamanaṃ prati // > When his name is chanted even helplessly, a man is freed from all sins at once, / like deer frightened by a lion; / by him the belt is fastened for the journey toward liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.13) svapne 'pi nāma spṛśato 'pi puṃsaḥ kṣayaṃ karotyakṣayapāparāśim / pratyakṣataḥ kiṃ punaratra puṃsā prakīrtite nāmni janārdanasya // > Even in a dream, \[the name\] brings destruction to an inexhaustible heap of sins for a man who even touches it; / how much more so when the name of Janārdana is openly chanted by a man? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.14) namaḥ kṛṣṇācyutānantavāsudevetyudīritam / yairbhāvabhāvitairviprana te yamapuraṃ yayuḥ // > Those by whom 'Homage to Kṛṣṇa, Acyuta, Ananta, Vāsudeva' is uttered / with hearts filled with devotion, O twice-born, do not go to Yama's city. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.15) kṣayo bhavedyathā vahnestamaso bhāskarodaye / tathaiva kaluṣaughasya nāmasaṃkīrtanāddhareḥ // > Just as darkness is destroyed by fire or at the rising of the sun, / even so is the flood of impurities destroyed by chanting the name of Hari. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.16) kva nākapṛṣṭhagamanaṃ punarāyāti na kṣayam / gacchatāṃ dūramadhvānaṃ kṛṣṇamūrchitacetasām // > Where is the ascent to heaven's summit that does not come to an end again? / For those who travel that distant path, their minds swoon upon Kṛṣṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.17) pātheyaṃ puṇḍarīkākṣanāmasaṃkīrtanaṃ hareḥ / saṃsārasarpasaṃdaṣṭaviṣaceṣṭaikabheṣajam / kṛṣṇeti vaiṣṇavaṃ kṣāntaṃ japtvā mukto bhavennaraḥ // > Provisions for the journey are the chanting of the name of Hari, the Lotus-eyed; / it is the sole medicine for the effect of the venom when bitten by the snake of saṃsāra. / Chanting the patient Vaiṣṇava \[mantra\] 'Kṛṣṇa', a man becomes liberated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.18) dhyāyan kṛte japenmantraistretāyāṃ dvāparer'cayan / yadāpnoti tadāpnoti tadāpnoti kalau saṃsmṛtyakeśavam // > What one attains by meditating in the Kṛta age, by chanting mantras in the Tretā, and by worshipping in the Dvāpara, / that one attains in the Kali age by remembering Keśava. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.19) jihvāgre vartate yasya harirityakṣaradvayam / saṃsārasāgaraṃ tīrtvā sa gacchedvaiṣṇavaṃ padam // > He on the tip of whose tongue rests the two-syllable word 'Ha-ri' / crosses the ocean of saṃsāra and reaches the abode of Viṣṇu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.20) vijñātaduṣkṛtisahasrasamāvṛto 'piśreyaḥ parantu pariśuddhima bhīpsamānaḥ / spapnāntare na hi punaśca bhavaṃ sa paśyennārāyaṇastutikathāparamo manuṣyaḥ // > Though surrounded by thousands of known evil deeds, a person who desires ultimate good and purification / and who is devoted to the praises and stories of Nārāyaṇa will not see mundane existence again, even in a dream. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.228.20.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228.20.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe viṣṇubhaktivivaraṇaṃ nāmāṣṭāviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-eighth chapter, entitled 'Explanation of Devotion to Viṣṇu', in the section on Conduct, in the first part called the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.228.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Viṣṇudharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.vaisnava.visnudharma.1.88.31) — Sanskrit - [Nityācārapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.nityacarapradipa.11.p152) — Narasiṃha Vājapeyin, Sanskrit - [Nityācārapaddhati (Vidyākara vājapeyin)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.nityacarapaddhati-vidyakara-vajapeyin.5.p72) — Vidyākara vājapeyin, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.228) · Pramāṇa