[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) › 1.239 # Garudapurana 1.239 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.239 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.239.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.10) — 1 part - [1.239.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.26) — 1 part ### [1.239.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 239 brahmovāca / brahmagītāṃ pravakṣyāmi yajjñātvā mucyate bhavān / ahaṃbrahmāsmi vākyotthajñānānmokṣo bhavennaṇām // > The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 239 > Brahmā said: > I shall proclaim the Brahmagītā, knowing which you shall be liberated. / Through knowledge arising from the statement ‘I am Brahman’, liberation comes to men. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.2) vākyajñānaṃ bhavejjñānādahaṃbrahma padārthayoḥ / padadvayārthau dvividhau vācyau lakṣyau smatau budhaiḥ // > Knowledge of the sentence arises from knowledge of the meaning of the words ‘I’ and ‘Brahman’. / The meanings of the two words are understood by the wise to be twofold: expressed and indicated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.3) vākyavācyaśca śabalo lakṣyaḥ śudvaḥ prakīrtitaḥ / prāṇapiṇḍātmakoḥ yanacetasāmatulaṃ na yatu? // > The expressed sense of the sentence is qualified, while the indicated sense is proclaimed to be pure; / the self of the body and breath \[…\] of the mind is peerless \[…\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.4) tathā vedairavāgrūpamahaṃśabdena sevyate / pratyagrūnaṃ tvadvitīyamahaṃśabdena manyate // > So by the Vedas the unexpressed form is designated by the word ‘I’; / the inner, non-dual form is understood through the word ‘I’. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.5) avyayānandacaitanyaṃ parokṣasahitaṃ param / prāṇapiṇḍātmako yotha sa dvitīyavibhāgakaḥ // > The imperishable consciousness-bliss, conjoined with indirectness, is supreme; / that which consists of the body and breath is the second division. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.6) pārokṣyeprekṣaṇo hyatra bhāgo lakṣyeta vāhamā / tathā brahmapadenaiva prāṇapiṇḍātmakāraṇām // > Here, indeed, the part seen as indirect is indicated by ‘I’; / likewise, through the word ‘Brahman’, of those consisting of the body and breath, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.7) niṣṭhā parokṣatā ceti parityāgena vakṣyate / advayānandacaitanyaṃ pratyagbrahmapadena tu // > abiding and indirectness are explained through renunciation. / By the word ‘Brahman’, however, the inner, non-dual consciousness-bliss \[is meant\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.8) advayānandacaitanyaṃ lakṣayitvā sthitasya ca / brahmāhamasmyahaṃ brahma cāhaṃbrahmapadārthayoḥ // > And of one who stands having indicated non-dual consciousness-bliss / in the meanings of the words ‘I am Brahman’ and ‘I am Brahman’, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.9) ahaṃbrahmāsmivākyācca svanubhūtiphalārthakam / aikyajñānaṃ tu hi bhavedvedāntāddūrato dhruvam // > and from the statement ‘I am Brahman’, which has the fruit of direct experience, / the knowledge of unity indeed arises, beyond the Vedānta, with certainty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.10) jñānādajñānakāryasya nivṛttyā muktiraikyataḥ // > Through knowledge, by the cessation of the effect of ignorance, liberation \[comes\] through oneness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.10.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.10.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe brahmagītāsāravarṇanaṃ nāmaikonacatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the two hundred and thirty-ninth chapter in the first section named the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, entitled ‘Description of the Essence of the Brahmagītā’. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.1\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.1_2) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 239 śrībhagavānuvāca / sannapi brahma tasmātkhaṃ marutkhācca tato 'nalaḥ // > The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 239 > The Lord said: > Being the real, Brahman \[is\]; from that \[came\] space; from space, air; then, from air, fire; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.2\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.2_2) agnerāpastataḥ pṛthvī prapañcākṛtisūtikā / tataḥ saptadaśaṃ liṅgaṃ pañcakarmendriyāṇi ca // > from fire, water; then the earth, the mother of the phenomenal form. / From that came the seventeen-part subtle body and the five organs of action: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.3\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.3_2) vākpāṇipādaṃ pāyuścāpyupasthamatha dhīndriyam / śrotraṃ tvakcakṣuṣī jihvā ghrāṇaṃ syātpañca vāyavaḥ // > speech, hands, feet, the anus, and the genitals; then the organs of cognition: / ear, skin, eyes, tongue, and nose; there are also the five vital airs: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.4\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.4_2) prāṇopānaḥ samānaśca vyānastūdāna eva ca / manontaḥ karaṇaṃ dhīśca syānmanaḥ saṃśayātmakam // > prāṇa, apāna, samāna, vyāna, and udāna; / the internal organ is mind and intellect; the mind is of the nature of doubt, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.5\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.5_2) buddhirniścayarūpā tu etatsūkṣmasvarūpakam / hiraṇyagarbhamātmīyasūtraṃ tatkāryāliṅgakam // > while the intellect is of the nature of determination. This is the subtle form, / Hiraṇyagarbha, one's own Sūtrātman, whose mark is its effect. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.6\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.6_2) pañcīkṛtāni bhūtāni hyapañcīkṛtabhūtataḥ / pañcīkṛtebhyo bhūtebhyo brahmāṇḍaṃ samajāyata // > The elements were compounded fivefold from the uncompounded elements; / from the fivefold compounded elements, the cosmic egg came into being. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.7\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.7_2) lokaprasiddhaṃ sthūlākhyaṃ śarīraṃ caraṇādimat / pañcīkṛtāni bhūtāni tatkāryaṃ tatsthameva ca // > The body known in the world as the gross, having feet and other limbs, / \[consists of\] the fivefold compounded elements, is their effect, and resides in them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.8\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.8_2) sarvaṃ śarīrajātaṃ ca prāṇināṃ sthūlamīritam / tridhāhri paramātmasthaṃ śarīraṃ procyate budhaiḥ // > The entire collection of bodies of living beings is declared to be gross. / The wise declare that the body residing in the Supreme Self is threefold. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.9\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.9_2) dehadvayābhigāmī ca tvamatho jīva ekataḥ / svabhedavākyādbrahmaiva praviṣṭaṃ dehayordvayoḥ // > And you, the individual soul, access both bodies from one side; / from the statement of non-difference, Brahman itself has entered into the two bodies. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.10\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.10_2) jalārkvavadvadaravajjīvaḥ prāṇādidhāraṇaḥ / jāgratsvapnasuṣuptīnāṃ sākṣī jīvaḥ sa ca smṛtaḥ // > Like the reflection of the sun in water, like a jujube fruit, the individual soul sustains the breath and other faculties; / the individual soul is remembered as the witness of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.11) jāgratsvapnasuṣuptyākhyairvyātiriktaśca nirguṇaḥ / nirgātāvayavosaṃgo nityaśuddhasvabhāvakaḥ // > Distinct from those called waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, \[the Self\] is free of qualities, / devoid of parts, unattached, and of an eternally pure nature. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.12) paramātmaiva yajjāgratsvapnādyairyastridhā mataḥ / antaḥ karaṇarāśeścaivāntaḥ karaṇaḥsthitaḥ // > Because it is the Supreme Self alone that is regarded as threefold through waking, dreaming, and the rest; / and of the aggregate of internal organs, it resides in the internal organ. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.13) jāgratsvapnasuṣuptīśca paśyato vikṛtiḥ sadā / phalakriyākārakayorjāgradādīnvadāmyaham // > There is constant modification for one who sees waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. / I shall describe waking and the rest with respect to fruit, action, and agent. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.14) indriyairatha vijñānaṃ jāgratsthānamudīritam / jāgratsaṃskārasaṃbhūtapratyayo viṣayārthinaḥ // > Consciousness through the senses is declared to be the waking state; / the cognition arising from the impressions of the waking state belongs to one who desires objects; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.15) svapnaṃ suṣuptiḥ karaṇopasaṃghāte dhiyaḥ (pa) sthita (ti) / brahmaṇaḥ kāraṇāvasthāyāṃ sthitiḥ kālakātmanā // > dream \[is that\]; deep sleep is the resting of the intellect upon the cessation of the organs; / the state of Brahman in the causal state is an abiding as the spirit of time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.16) kramatokramato jīvo jāgradādi sa paśyati / samādhyāraṃbhakāle tu pūrvamevāvadhārayet // > In sequence and out of sequence, the individual soul perceives waking and the rest; / but at the time of commencing absorption, one should ascertain \[this\] beforehand. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.17) mumukṣāvatha saṃjāte antaḥ karaṇakevale / vilāpayetkṣetrajātaṃ tatkṣetraṃ pariśeṣayet // > When the desire for liberation has arisen in the isolated internal organ, / one should dissolve what is born of the field and allow that field to remain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.18) pañcīkṛtebhyo bhūtebhyo bhāṇḍādi vyatiriktakam / yathā mṛdo ghaṭo bhinno nāsti tatkāryatastathā // > Just as a pot is not distinct from the earth because it is its effect, / so pots and other objects are not distinct from the fivefold compounded elements. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.19) pañcīkṛtāni bhūtāni apañcīkṛtabhūtataḥ / śaṃsaṃti vyatirekeṇa śiṣṭāḥ sūkṣmaśarīrakam // > The learned declare that the subtle body is distinct / from the fivefold compounded elements and from the uncompounded elements. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.20) apañcīkṛtabhūtebhyo na liṅgaṃ vyatiriktakam / pṛthvyādhāraṃ vinā nāsti vinā nāsti ca tena sā // > The subtle body is not distinct from the uncompounded elements; / \[the pot\] does not exist without the support of the earth, nor does it exist without that \[earth\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.21) tejaśca vāyunā nāsti vāyuḥ khena vinā na hi / yadbrahmaṇā ca khaṃ nāsti śuddha brahma vinā ca kham // > Fire does not exist without air, nor does air exist without space; / because space does not exist without Brahman, nor does space exist without pure Brahman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.22) śuddhabhāvastadā jāgratsvapnādīnāmasaṃbhavaḥ / jīvatvavarjitaḥ prāptātmacaitanyānurūpataḥ // > In the pure state, then, waking, dreaming, and the rest are impossible; / one is rid of the state of an individual soul in accordance with the attained consciousness of the Self, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.23) nityaṃ śuddhaṃ buddhamuktaṃ satyaṃ brahmādvitīyakam / tattvaṃpadāntau śiṣṭau ca tatkāro brahmavācakaḥ // > which is eternal, pure, enlightened, liberated, real, non-dual Brahman. / The words ‘That’ and ‘Thou’ remain; the syllable ‘Tat’ designates Brahman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.24) ukāraśca akāraśca makāroyamṛgadvayaḥ / brahmāhamasmyahaṃ brahmajñānamajñānavardhanam // > The letter ‘u’, the letter ‘a’, and the letter ‘ma’ are this pair of Ṛg verses. / ‘I am Brahman’—knowledge of ‘I am Brahman’ dispels ignorance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.25) ayamātmā paraṃ jyotiścinnāmānandarūpakaḥ / satyaṃ jñānamanataṃ hi tvamasīti śrutīritam // > ‘This Self is the supreme light, of the nature of consciousness and bliss; / truth, knowledge, infinite indeed’, ‘Thou art that’, as proclaimed by revelation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.26) ahaṃ brahmāsmi nirlepamahaṃ brahmāsmi sarvagam / yosāvādityapuruṣasosāvahamanādimat / gītāsāror'junāyokto yena brahmaṇi vai layaḥ // > ‘I am Brahman, untainted; I am Brahman, all-pervading; / that Person who is in the sun, that am I, beginningless.’ / The essence of the Gītā was spoken to Arjuna, whereby dissolution in Brahman indeed \[occurs\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.239.26.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239.26.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe prathamāṃśe ācārakāṇḍe brahmagītāsāro nāmekonacatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the two hundred and thirty-ninth chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, entitled ‘The Essence of the Brahmagītā’. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.239.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.239) · Pramāṇa