Garudapurana 1.91

The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa — [Chapter] 91 / Sūta said: / The sages, Svāyambhuva and others, meditate upon Hari through action, / devoted to observances, proper conduct, worship, meditation, praise, and silent recitation,

devoid of body, sense organs, mind, intellect, vital breath, and egoism, / without space, free from fire,

without water, free from its attributes, / devoid of earth, and free from all elements,

the overseer of the elements, the ruler of the bound, the powerful lord, all-pervading, / whose form is consciousness, the overseer of all, stainless,

free from attachment, the great ruler, worshipped by all the gods, / whose form is splendour, without gunas, and beyond asceticism.

Ever devoid of rajas, beyond the three guṇas, / truly devoid of all forms, devoid of agency and the like,

free from latent impressions, pure, devoid of all faults, / devoid of thirst, devoid of sorrow and delusion,

truly free from old age and death, immovable, free from delusion, / devoid of origination and free from dissolution,

truth, devoid of all conventional conduct, partless, the Supreme Lord, / devoid of waking, dream, deep sleep, and the like, devoid of name,

the witness of waking and the other states, of peaceful form, the lord of gods, / ever abiding in waking and the other states, devoid of cause and effect,

seen everywhere, both formed and subtle, subtler than the subtle, supreme, / the eye of knowledge, the cognition of hearing, whose form is supreme bliss,

devoid likewise of the gross soul (viśva), free from the subtle soul (taijasa), / devoid of the causal soul (prājña), the fourth (turīya), the supreme imperishable,

the protector of all, the destroyer of all, embodying the Self of all beings, / devoid of the attributes of the intellect, without support, auspicious, Hari,

free from transformation, to be known through the Vedāntas alone, / of the nature of the Veda, the supreme being, beyond the senses, auspicious,

free from sound, devoid of taste, / devoid of touch, the god, devoid of mere form,

and devoid of form, completely free from smell, / the beginningless Brahman up to the aperture of the crown: 'I am purely Brahman.'

Having known thus, with senses subdued, one should meditate on the great god. / A person who meditates in this way truly becomes Brahman.

Thus the meditation upon the headless [formless] has been related by me to you. / Now I will declare another: what is it that you ask, O bull-bannered one?

Thus ends the ninety-first chapter, entitled 'Meditation on Hari', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa.