[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) › 1.44 # Garudapurana 1.44 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.44 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.44.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.15) — 1 part ### [1.44.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 44 hariruvāca / pūjayitvā pavitrādyairbrahma dhyātvā harirbhavet / brahmadhyānaṃ pravakṣyāmi māyāyantrapramardakam // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 44 / Hari said: / Having worshipped with pavitras and the like, and having meditated on Brahman, one becomes Hari. / I shall explain meditation on Brahman, which destroys the machinery of illusion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.2) yacchedvāṅmanasaṃ prājñastaṃ yajejjñānamātmani / jñānaṃ mahati saṃyacchedya icchejjñānamātmāni // > The wise person should restrain speech and mind; he should merge that \[mind\] into knowledge, into the Self. / He should restrain knowledge in the great \[intellect\]—he who desires knowledge in the Self. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.3) dehendriyamanobuddhiprāṇāhaṅkarāvarjitam / varjitaṃ bhūtatanmātrairguṇajanmāśanādibhiḥ // > \[The Self is\] free from body, senses, mind, intellect, vital breath, and ego; / free from elements and subtle essences, from qualities, birth, eating, and the like; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.4) svaprakāśaṃ nirākāraṃ sadānaṃ damanādi yat / nityaṃ śuddhaṃ buddhamṛddhaṃ satyamānandamadvayam // > self-luminous, formless, ever existent, blissful, without beginning; / eternal, pure, awakened, prosperous, true, blissful, non-dual; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.5) turīyamakṣaraṃ brahma ahamasmi paraṃ padam / ahaṃ brahmetyavasthānaṃ samādhirapi (riti) gīyate // > "I am the fourth, the imperishable Brahman, the supreme abode." / The abiding in the state "I am Brahman" is spoken of as samādhi. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.6) ātmānaṃ rathinaṃ viddhi śarīraṃ rathameva tu / buddhiṃ ca sārathiṃ viddhi manaḥ pragrahameva ca / indriyāṇi hayānāhurviṣayāsteṣu gocarāḥ // > Know the Self to be the chariot-rider, and the body to be the chariot; / know the intellect to be the charioteer, and the mind to be the reins. / The senses, they say, are the horses; the sense-objects are the paths for them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.7) ātmendriyamanoyukto bhoktetyārmanīṣiṇaḥ / yastu vijñāna bāhmena yuktena manasā sadā // > Endowed with Self, senses, and mind, he is the experiencer: so the wise say. / But he who always has a disciplined mind with discernment as his vehicle, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.8) sa tu tatpadamāpnoti sa hi bhūyo na jāyate / vijñānasārathiryastu manaḥ pragrahavānnaraḥ // > he attains that abode; indeed, he is not born again. / The person who has discernment as his charioteer and keeps a rein on his mind, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.9) svardhunyāḥ pāramāpnoti tadviṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam / ahiṃsādiryamaḥ proktaḥ śaucādirniyamaḥ smṛtaḥ // > reaches the far shore of the heavenly river, that supreme abode of Viṣṇu. / Non-violence and the like are declared to be yama; purification and the like are remembered as niyama. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.10) āsanaṃ padmakādyuktaṃ prāṇāyāmo marujjayaḥ / pratyāhā ro jayaḥ prokto dhyānamīśvaracintanam // > Postures are taught beginning with the lotus posture; prāṇāyāma is the conquest of the breath; / pratyāhāra is declared to be mastery \[over the senses\]; dhyāna is meditation on the Lord; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.11) manodhṛtirdhāraṇā sthātsamādhirbrahmaṇi sthitiḥ / pūrvaṃ cetaḥ sthiraṃ na syāttatomūrtiṃ vicintayet // > dhāraṇā is the steadfast holding of the mind; samādhi is abiding in Brahman. / If the mind should not first be steady, then one should contemplate the form \[of the deity\]: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.12) hṛtpadmakarṇikāmadhye śaṅkhacakragadābjavān / śrīvatsakaustubhayuto vanamālāśriyā yutaḥ // > in the center of the pericarp of the heart-lotus, holding the conch, discus, mace, and lotus, / endowed with the Śrīvatsa and the Kaustubha, endowed with the splendor of the forest garland, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.13) nityaḥ śuddho bhūtiyuktaḥ satyānandāhvayaḥ paraḥ / ātmāhaṃ paramaṃ brahma paramaṃ jyotireva tu // > eternal, pure, possessed of power, called truth and bliss, the supreme. / "I am the Self, the supreme Brahman, the supreme light itself." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.14) caturviśatimūrtiḥ sa śālagrāmaśilāsthitaḥ / dvārakādiśilāsaṃstho dhyeyaḥ pūjyo 'pyahaṃ ca saḥ // > He has twenty-four forms, residing in the Śālagrāma stone; / residing in the stone of Dvārakā and elsewhere, he is to be meditated on and worshipped, and I am he. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.15) manaso 'bhīpsitaṃ prāpya devo vaimāniko bhavet / niṣkāmo muktimāpnoti mūrtiṃ dhyāyayaṃstuvañjapan // > Having obtained his heart's desire, he becomes a god travelling in an aerial chariot; / free from desire, he attains liberation, meditating on the form, praising and chanting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.44.15.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44.15.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe brahmamūrtidhyānanirūpaṇaṃ nāma catuścatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, named 'Exposition of Meditation on the Form of Brahman', in the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first part in the earlier 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.1.44.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.44) · Pramāṇa