[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) › 2.49 # Garudapurana 2.49 Garuḍapurāṇa 2.49 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [2.49.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.131) — 1 part - [2.49.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.136) — 3 parts ### [2.49.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.1) adhunā śrotumicchāmi mokṣopāyaṃ sanātanam // > Now I desire to hear the eternal means of liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.2) bhagavandevadeveśa śaraṇāgatavatsala / asāre ghorasaṃsāre sarvaduḥ khamalīmase // > Lord, Lord of gods, affectionate to those who take refuge, / in this worthless, terrifying cycle of existence soiled by all kinds of suffering, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.3) nānāvidhaśarīrasthā anantā jīvarāśayaḥ / jāyante ca mriyante ca teṣāmanto na vidyate // > countless multitudes of living beings dwelling in bodies of various kinds / are born and die, and there is no end to them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.4) sadā duḥ khāturā eva na sakhī vidyate kkacit / kenopāyena mokṣeśa mucyante vada me prabho // > They are ever afflicted with grief, and nowhere is happiness to be found. / By what means, O Lord of liberation, are they freed? Tell me, Lord.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.5) śrībhagavānubāca / śṛṇu tārkṣya pravakṣyāmi yanmāṃ tvaṃ paripṛcchasi / yasya śravaṇamātreṇa saṃsārānmucyate naraḥ // > The Blessed Lord said: / 'Listen, Tārkṣya, I shall declare what you ask of me, / by the mere hearing of which a person is freed from cyclic existence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.6) asti devaḥ parabrahmasvarūpo niṣkalaḥ śivaḥ / sarvajñaḥ sarvakartā ca sarveśo nirmalo 'dvayaḥ // > There is a Deity whose nature is the supreme Brahman, undivided, auspicious, / all-knowing, all-doing, the Lord of all, stainless, and non-dual; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.7) svayañjyotiranādyanto nirvikāraḥ parātparaḥ / nirguṇaḥ saccidānandastadaṃśā jīvasaṃjñakāḥ // > self-luminous, without beginning or end, immutable, higher than the highest, / without qualities, existence-consciousness-bliss; its portions are called individual souls, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.8) anādyavidyopahatā yathāgnau visphuliṅgakāḥ / dehādyupādhisambhinnāste karmabhiranādibhiḥ // > which, like sparks in fire, are struck by beginningless ignorance. / Delimited by adjuncts such as the physical body through beginningless actions > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.9) sukhaduḥ khapradaiḥ puṇyapārūpairniyantritāḥ / tattajjātiyutaṃ dehamāyurbhogañca karmajam // > and restrained by merit and sin that bring pleasure and pain, / they attain, life after life, karma-born bodies belonging to their respective species, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.10) pratijanma prapadyante teṣāmapi paraṃ punaḥ / sasūkṣmaliṅgaśarīramāmokṣādakṣaraṃ khaga // > as well as their lifespan and experience of fruit. And again, beyond these bodies, / there is the subtle linga-body, imperishable until liberation, O bird. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.11) sthāvarāḥ kṛmayaścājāḥ pakṣiṇaḥ paśavo nagaḥ / dhārmikāstridaśāstadvanmokṣiṇaśca yathākramam // > Immobile beings, worms, goats, birds, beasts, snakes, / righteous humans, gods, and then those seeking liberation: in this order, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.12) caturvidhaśarīrāṇi dhṛtvā muktvā sahasraśaḥ / sukṛtānmā navo bhūtvā jñānī cenmokṣamāpnuyāt // > having assumed and abandoned the four kinds of bodies thousands of times, / one becomes a human by virtue of merit; if endowed with knowledge, one may attain liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.13) caturaśītilakṣeṣu śarīreṣu śarīriṇām / na mānuṣaṃ vinānyatra tattvajñānantu labhyate // > Among the eighty-four hundred thousand bodies of embodied beings, / knowledge of reality is not attained anywhere except in the human state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.14) atra janmasahasrāṇāṃ sahasrairapi koṭibhiḥ / kadācillabhate janturmānuṣyaṃ puṇyasañcayāt // > Here, after thousands of thousands and even tens of millions of births, / a creature occasionally obtains human birth through an accumulation of merit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.15) sopānabhūtaṃ mokṣasya mānuṣyaṃ prāpya durlabham / yastāra yati nātmānaṃ tasmātpāpataro 'tra kaḥ // > Having obtained the human body, difficult to attain, which serves as a ladder to liberation, / who is more sinful here than the one who does not save oneself? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.16) naraḥ prāpyetarajjanma labdhvā cendriyasauṣṭhavam / na vettyātmahitaṃ yastu sa bhavedbrahmaghātakaḥ // > A person who, having attained this superior birth and the full power of the senses, / does not realize what is beneficial for oneself, is a slayer of the self. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.17) vinā dehena kasyāpi puruṣārtho na vidyate / tasmāddehaṃ dhanaṃ rakṣetpuṇyakarmāṇi sādhayet // > Without a body, no goal of human life is achieved by anyone; / therefore, one should preserve one's body and wealth, and perform meritorious deeds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.18) rakṣeccasarvadātmānamātmā sarbvasya bhājanam / rakṣaṇe yatnamātiṣṭhejjīvan bhadrāṇi paśyati // > One should always protect oneself, for the self is the vessel of everything. / One should make an effort to protect it; living, one sees good things. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.19) punargrāmaḥ punaḥ kṣetra punarvittaṃ punargṛham / punaḥ śubhāśubhaṃ karma na śarīraṃ punaḥ punaḥ // > A village may be found again, a field again, wealth again, a house again, / and good and bad deeds again; but a body is not found again and again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.20) śarīrarakṣaṇopāyāḥ kri yante sarvadā budhaiḥ / necchanti ca punastyāgamapi kuṣṭhādirogiṇaḥ // > Means to protect the body are always employed by the wise; / even those suffering from leprosy and other diseases do not wish to abandon it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.21) tadgopitaṃ syāddharmārthaṃ dharmo jñānārthameva ca / jñānaṃ tu dhyānayogārthamacirātpravimucyate // > That \[body\] should be guarded for the sake of dharma, and dharma is for knowledge alone; / knowledge is for the yoga of meditation, and \[by it\] one is soon fully liberated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.22) ātmaiva yadi nātmānamahītebhyo nivārayet / ko 'nyo hitakarastasmādātmānaṃ sukhayiṣyati // > If oneself does not ward off the self from what is harmful, / who else, acting for its welfare, will bring happiness to oneself? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.23) ihaiva narakavyādheścikitsāṃ na karoti yaḥ / gatvā nirauṣadhaṃ deśaṃ vyādhimthaḥ kiṃ kariṣyati // > He who does not cure the disease of hell right here in this world, / what will he do, seized by disease, when he has gone to a land without medicine? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.24) vyāghrīvāste jarā cāyuryāti bhinnaghaṭāmbuvat / nighnanti ripuvadrogāstasmācchreyaḥ samabhyaseta // > Old age sits like a tigress, and life drains away like water from a broken jar; / diseases strike down like enemies: therefore, one should practice what leads to the highest good. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.25) yāvannāśrayate duḥ khaṃ yāvannāyānti cāpadaḥ / yāvannendriyavaikalyaṃ tāvacchreyaḥ samabhyaset // > As long as sorrow does not take hold, as long as misfortunes do not arrive, / and as long as the senses do not fail, one should practice what leads to the highest good. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.26) yāvattiṣṭhati deho 'yaṃ tāvattattvaṃ samabhyaset / sandīptakośabhavane kūpaṃ khanati durmatiḥ // > As long as this body remains, one should cultivate the knowledge of reality; / the fool digs a well when the treasury house is already burning. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.27) kālo na jñāyate nānākāryaiḥ saṃsārasambhavaiḥ / sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ jano hanta na vetti hitamātmanaḥ // > Time is not noticed amidst various tasks arising from worldly existence; / distracted by pleasure and pain, alas, man does not know what is beneficial to himself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.28) jātānārtānmṛtānāpadbhaṣṭāndṛṣṭvā ca duḥ khitān / loko mohasurāṃ pītvā na bibheti kadācana // > Seeing people born, afflicted, dead, ruined by disaster, and miserable, / a person drinks the wine of delusion and never feels afraid. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.29) sampadaḥ svapnasaṃkāśā yauvanaṃ kusumopamam / taḍiccapalamāyuṣyaṃ kasya syājjānato dhṛtiḥ // > Prosperity is like a dream, youth is like a flower, / and life is as flickering as lightning; who that understands can remain complacent? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.30) śataṃ jīvitamatyalpaṃ nidrālasyaistadardhakam / bālyarogajarāduḥ khairalpaṃ tadapi niṣphalam // > A hundred years of life is very short, and half of that is lost to sleep and laziness; / of what remains, a fraction is rendered useless by childhood, sickness, old age, and sorrow. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.31) prārabdhavye nirudyogī jāgartavye prasuptakaḥ / viśvastaśca bhayasthāne hā naraḥ ko na hanyate // > Inactive when action should begin, asleep when one should be awake, / and trusting in a place of peril: alas, what man is not ruined? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.32) toyaphenasame dehe jīvenākramya saṃsthite / anityāprayasavāse katha tiṣṭhati nirbhayaḥ // > When the soul has taken up residence within a body that is like water-foam, / an impermanent dwelling obtained with great effort, how can it remain without fear? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.33) ahite hitasaṃjñaḥ syādadhruve dhruvasaṃjñakaḥ / anarthe cārthavijñānaḥ svamarthaṃ yo na vetti saḥ // > Calling harmful what is beneficial, and believing the transient to be eternal, / he who sees value in what is worthless does not know his own true good. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.34) paśyannapi praskhalati śṛṇvannapi na budhyati / paṭhannapi na jānāti devamāyāvimohitaḥ // > Even while seeing, he stumbles; even while hearing, he does not comprehend; / even while reading, he does not know, utterly deluded by the divine illusion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.35) tannimajjajjagadidaṃ gambhīre kālasāgare / mṛtyurogajarāgrāhairna kaścidapi budhyate // > While this entire world sinks in the deep ocean of time, / caught by the sea-monsters of death, disease, and old age, no one at all is awakened. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.36) pratikṣaṇabhayaṃ kālaḥ kṣīyamāṇo na lakṣyate / āmakuṃbha ivāṃbhaḥ stho viśīrṇo na vibhāvyate // > Fear arrives at every moment, yet passing time is not observed; / like an unbaked jar placed in water, it disintegrates unnoticed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.37) yujyate veṣṭanaṃ vāyorākāśasya ca khaṇḍanam / grathanañca taraṅgāṇāmāsthā nāyuṣi yujyate // > Wrapping up the wind is possible, or carving pieces from space, / or stringing waves together into a garland; but placing reliance on life is not possible. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.38) pṛthivī dahyate yena meruścāpi viśīryate / śuṣyate sāgarajalaṃ śarīrasya ca kā kathā // > When the earth will be burned, and even Mount Meru shattered, / and the water of the ocean dried up, what need be said of the body? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.39) apatyaṃ me kalatraṃ me dhanaṃ me bāndhavāśca me / jalpantamiti martyājaṃ hanti kālavṛko balāt // > As a mortal babbler prattles, 'My child, my wife, / my wealth, and my kin,' the wolf of time slays him by force. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.40) idaṃ kṛtamidaṃ kāryamidamanyatkṛtākṛtam / evamīhāsamāyuktaṃ kṛtāntaḥ kurute vaśam // > While he is consumed with striving—'This is done, this is to be done, / this other thing is half-finished'—Death brings him under control. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.41) śvaḥ kāryamadya kurvīta pūrvāhne cāparāhnikam / na hi mṛtyuḥ pratīkṣeta kṛtaṃ vāpyatha vākṛtam // > One should do today what is to be done tomorrow, and in the forenoon what is to be done in the afternoon, > for Death does not wait \[to see\] whether it has been done or not done. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.42) jarādarśitapanthānaṃ pracaṇḍavyādhisainikam / adhiṣṭhito mṛtyuśatruṃ trātāraṃ kiṃ na paśyati // > Overcome by the enemy Death, whose path is shown by old age and whose army is fierce disease, > why does he not see a protector? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.43) tṛṣṇāsūcīvinirbhinnaṃ siktaṃ viṣayasarpiṣā / rāgadveṣānale pakvaṃ mṛtyuraśrāti mānavam // > Pierced by the needle of craving, basted with the ghee of sense-objects, > and cooked in the fire of attachment and aversion, a human being is devoured by Death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.44) bālāṃśca yauvanasthāṃśca vṛddhāna garbhagatānapi / sarvānāviśate mṛtyurevambhūmidaṃ jagat // > Children, those in their youth, the aged, and even those in the womb— > Death seizes them all; such is this world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.45) svadehamapi jīvo 'yaṃ muktvā yāti yamālayam / strīmātṛpitṛputtrādisambandhaḥ kena hetunā // > Abandoning even its own body, this individual soul goes to Yama's abode; > for what reason, then, \[is there\] connection with wife, mother, father, sons, and the rest? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.46) duḥ khamūlaṃ hi saṃsāraḥ sa yasyāsti sa duḥ khitaḥ / tasya tyāgaḥ kṛto yena sa sukhī nāparaḥ kvacit // > For saṃsāra is the root of suffering; whoever has it suffers. > He by whom it is abandoned is happy; no other person ever is. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.47) prabhavaṃ sarvaduḥ khānāmālayaṃ sakalāpadām / āśrayaṃ sarvapāpānāṃ saṃsāraṃ varjayetkṣaṇāt // > The source of all sufferings, the abode of all misfortunes, > the refuge of all sins—one should abandon saṃsāra in an instant. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.48) lohadārumayaiḥ pāśaiḥ pumānbaddho vimucyate / puttradāramayaiḥ pāśairmucyate na kadācana // > Bound by bonds of iron and wood, a man is released; > \[bound\] by bonds of sons and wife, he is never released. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.49) yāvataḥ kurute jantuḥ sambandhānmanasaḥ priyān / tāvanto 'sya nikhanyante hṛdaye śokaśaṅkavaḥ // > As many connections pleasing to the mind as a creature makes, > that many pegs of grief are driven into his heart. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.50) vañcitāśeṣavittaistairnityaṃ loko vināśitaḥ / hā hanta viṣayāhārairdehasthondriyataskaraiḥ // > Deprived of all their wealth, people are perpetually destroyed— > alas!—by those thieves residing in the body, the senses, whose nourishment is sense-objects. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.51) māṃsalubdho yathā matsyo lohaśaṅkuṃ na paśyati / sukhalubdhastathā dehī yamavādhāṃ na paśyati // > Just as a fish greedy for meat does not see the iron hook, > so an embodied soul greedy for pleasure does not see the torment of Yama. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.52) hitāhitaṃ na jānanto nityamunmārgagāminaḥ / kukṣipūraṇaniṣṭhā ye te narā nārakāḥ khaga // > Those who do not know benefit from harm, who perpetually go astray, > and whose sole devotion is to filling their bellies—those men, O bird, belong to hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.53) nidrābhīmaithunāhārāḥ sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ samāḥ / jñānavānmānavaḥ prokto jñānahīnaḥ paśuḥ smṛtaḥ // > Sleep, fear, copulation, and food are common to all living beings. > One endowed with knowledge is called a human; one devoid of knowledge is considered a beast. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.54) prabhāte malamūttrābhyāṃ kṣuttṛḍbhyāṃ madhyage ravau / rātrau madananidrābhyāṃ bādhyante mūḍhamānavāḥ // > In the morning by feces and urine, at midday by hunger and thirst, > and at night by lust and sleep, foolish mortals are tormented. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.55) svadehadhanadārādiniratāḥ sarvajantavaḥ / jāyante ca mriyante ca hā hantājñānamohitāḥ // > Devoted to their own bodies, wealth, wives, and the like, all creatures > are born and die, alas, deluded by ignorance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.56) tasmātsaṅgaḥ sadā tyājyaḥ sacettyaktuṃ na śakyate / mahadbhiḥ saha kartavyaḥ santaḥ saṅgasya bheṣajam // > Therefore attachment must always be abandoned; if it cannot be abandoned, > it should be formed with the great: the virtuous are the medicine for attachment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.57) satsaṅgaśca vivekaśca nirmalaṃ nayanadvayam / yasya nāsti naraḥ so 'ndhaḥ kathaṃ na syādamārgagaḥ // > Association with the good and discrimination are the two spotless eyes; > a man who lacks them is blind—how could he not go astray? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.58) svasvavarṇāśramācāraniratāḥ sarvamānavāḥ / na jānanti paraṃ dharmaṃ vṛthā naśyanti dāmbhikāḥ // > All men intent on the conduct of their own caste and life-stage > do not know the highest dharma; hypocrites perish in vain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.59) kimāyāsaparāḥ kecidvratacaryādisaṃyutāḥ / ajñānasaṃvṛtātmānaḥ sañcaranti pracārakāḥ // > Devoted to useless exertion, observing vows and the like, > some wander about propagating \[their ways\], their minds cloaked in ignorance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.60) nāmamātreṇa santuṣṭāḥ karmakāṇḍaratā narāḥ / mantroccāraṇahomādyairbhrāmitāḥ kratuvistaraiḥ // > Content with mere names, men devoted to the ritual section, > are led astray by extensive sacrifices with recitation of mantras, oblations, and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.61) ekabhuktopavāsādyairniyamaiḥ kāyaśoṣaṇaiḥ / mūḍhāḥ parokṣamicchanti mama māyāvimohitāḥ // > Through observances that emaciate the body, such as eating once a day or fasting, > fools desire the transcendent, deluded by my māyā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.62) dehadaṇḍanamātreṇa kā muktiravivekinām / valmīkatāḍanādeva mṛtaḥ kinnu mahoragaḥ // > What liberation is there for the undiscerning by mere mortification of the body? > Is a great serpent ever killed merely by beating an anthill? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.63) jaṭābhārājinairyuktā dāmbhikā veṣadhāriṇaḥ / bhramanti jñānivalloke bhrāmayanti janānapi // > Bearing loads of matted locks and deer skins, hypocrites disguised in garb > wander in the world like the wise, and mislead the people as well. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.64) saṃsārajasukhāsaktaṃ brahmajño 'smītivādinam / karmabrahmobhayabhraṣṭaṃ taṃ tyajedantyajaṃ yathā // > One attached to the pleasure born of saṃsāra, yet saying 'I am a knower of Brahman', > fallen from both rituals and Brahman—one should cast him off like an outcaste. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.65) gṛhāraṇyasamā loke gatavrīḍā digambarāḥ / caranti gardabhādyāśca viraktāste bhavanti kim // > For whom home and forest are the same in the world, shameless, clad in space, > donkeys and the like wander about: do they become dispassionate? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.66) mṛdbhasmoddhūlanādeva muktāḥ syuryadi mānavāḥ / mṛdbhasmavāsī nityaṃ śvā sa kiṃ mukto bhaviṣyati // > If men were liberated merely by smearing themselves with mud and ashes, > would a dog that always lives in mud and ashes become liberated? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.67) tṛṇaparṇodakāhārāḥ satataṃ vanavāsinaḥ / jambūkākhumṛgādyāśca tāpasāste bhavanti kim // > Feeding on grass, leaves, and water, constantly dwelling in the forest, > jackals, rats, deer, and the like—do they become ascetics? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.68) ājanmamaraṇāntañca gaṅgāditaṭinīsthitāḥ / maṇḍūkamatsyapramukhā yoginaste bhavanti kim // > Staying in rivers like the Gaṅgā from birth until death, > frogs, fish, and the rest—do they become yogins? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.69) pārāvatāḥ śilāhārāḥ kadācidapi cātakāḥ / na pibanti mahītoyaṃ vratinaste bhavanti kim // > Pigeons eat stones, and cātaka birds at no time > drink water from the earth: do they become observers of vows? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.70) tasmānnityādikaṃ karma lokarañjanakārakam / mokṣasya kāraṇaṃ sākṣātattvajñāna khageśvara // > Therefore daily ritual action and the like merely serve to please the world; > the direct cause of liberation, O King of Birds, is knowledge of the truth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.71) ṣarḍśanamahākūpe patitāḥ paśavaḥ khaga / paramārthaṃ na jānanti paśupāśaniyantritāḥ // > Fallen into the great pit of the six systems of philosophy, the beasts, O bird, > do not know the highest truth, restrained by the bonds of animals. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.72) vedaśāstrārṇavairgherairuhyamānā itastataḥ / ṣaḍūrminigrahagrastāstiṣṭhanti hi kutārkikāḥ // > Carried hither and thither by the dreadful oceans of the Vedas and śāstras, > paralyzed by the six waves, bad logicians remain \[helpless\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.73) vedāgamapurāṇajñaḥ paramārthaṃ na vetti yaḥ / viḍambakasya tasyaiva tatsarvaṃ kākabhāṣitam // > He who knows the Vedas, Āgamas, and Purāṇas, but does not know the highest truth— > for that pretender, it is all just the cawing of a crow. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.74) idaṃ jñānamidaṃ jñeyamiti cintāsamākulāḥ / paṭhantyaharniśaṃ śāstraṃ paratattvaparāṅmukhāḥ // > 'This is knowledge, this is what is to be known'—troubled with such thoughts, > they recite the scripture day and night, turning away from the highest truth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.75) vākyacchandonibandhena kāvyālaṅkāraśobhitāḥ / cintayā duḥkhitā mūḍhāstiṣṭhanti vyākulendriyāḥ // > Decorated with poetic ornaments in composed sentences and metres, > fools remain with agitated senses, afflicted by worry. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.76) anyathā paramaṃ tattvaṃ janāḥ kliśyanti cānyathā / anyathā śāstrasadbhāvo vyākhyāṃ kurvanti cānyathā // > The highest truth is one way, yet people torment themselves in another; > the true essence of the scriptures is one way, yet they make explanations in another. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.77) kathayantyuvanmanībhāvaṃ svayaṃ nānubhavanti ca / ahaṅkārastāḥ kecidupadeśādivārjitāḥ // > They talk about the state beyond mind, but do not experience it themselves; > some are seized by egotism, devoid of instruction and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.78) paṭhanti vedaśāstrāṇi bodhayanti parasparam / na jānanti paraṃ tattvaṃ darvī pākarasaṃ yathā // > They recite the Vedas and śāstras and instruct one another, > \[yet\] do not know the highest truth, like a ladle \[does not know\] the taste of the cooked food. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.79) śiro vahati puṣpāṇi gandhaṃ jānāti nāsikā / paṭhanti vedaśāstrāṇi durlabho bhāvabodhakaḥ // > The head carries the flowers, the nose knows the fragrance; > \[many\] recite the Vedas and śāstras, \[but\] one who understands the true sense is rare. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.80) tattvamātmasthamajñātvā mūḍhaḥ śāstreṣu muhyati / gopaḥ kakṣāgate cchāge kūpaṃ paśyati durmatiḥ // > Not knowing the truth residing within oneself, a fool is bewildered by scriptures; > with a goat tucked under his arm, the foolish shepherd looks into a well. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.81) saṃsāramohanāśāya śābdabodho na hi kṣamaḥ / na nivarteta timiraṃ kadāciddīpavārtayā // > Verbal knowledge is indeed incapable of destroying the delusion of saṃsāra; > darkness is never dispelled by talk of a lamp. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.82) prajñāhīnasya paṭhanaṃ yathāndhasya ca darpaṇam / ataḥ prajñāvatāṃ śāstraṃ tattvajñānasya lakṣaṇam // > Reading for one devoid of wisdom is like a mirror for a blind man; > therefore, for those endowed with wisdom, scripture is a sign of the knowledge of the truth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.83) idaṃ jñānamidaṃ jñeyaṃ sarvantu śrotumicchati / divyavarṣasahasrācca śāstrāntaṃ naiva gacchati // > 'This is knowledge, this is what is to be known'—he wishes to hear everything, > but even after a thousand divine years, he will not reach the end of scriptures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.84) anekāni ca śāstrāṇi svalpāyurvighnakoṭayaḥ / tasmātsāraṃ vijānīyātkṣīraṃ haṃsa ivāmbhasi // > The scriptures are many, life is very short, and obstacles are millions; > therefore one should grasp the essence, like a goose \[extracts\] milk from water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.85) abhyasya vedaśāstrāṇi tattvaṃ jñātvātha budbhimān / palālamiva dhānyārthī sarvaśāstrāṇi santyajet // > Having studied the Vedas and śāstras and then realizing the truth, a wise person > should completely cast aside all scriptures, like one seeking grain \[casts aside\] the chaff. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.86) yathāmṛtena tṛptasya nāhāreṇa prayojanam / tattvajñasya tathā tārkṣya na śāstreṇa prayojanam // > Just as one satiated with nectar has no need for food, > so, O Tārkṣya, a knower of the truth has no need for scripture. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.87) na vedādhyayanānmuktirna śāstrapaṭhanādapi / jñānādeva hi kaivalyaṃ nānyathā vinatātmajaḥ // > Not by the study of the Vedas is there liberation, nor by reading scriptures; > only through knowledge is there isolation, and not otherwise, O son of Vinatā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.88) nāśramaḥ kāraṇaṃ mukterdarśanāni na kāraṇam / tathaiva sarvakarmāṇi jñānameva hi kāraṇam // > The life-stage is not the cause of liberation, nor are the philosophical systems the cause, > and likewise not all ritual actions: knowledge alone is the cause. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.89) muktidā guruvāgekā vidyāḥ sarvā viḍambikāḥ / śāstrabhārasahasreṣu hyekaṃ sañjīvanaṃ param // > The single word of the guru grants liberation; all other branches of learning are mere mockeries. / Amid thousands of burdens of scriptures, only that one is the supreme life-giving medicine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.90) advaitaṃ hi śivaṃ proktaṃ kriyayāparivarjitam / guruvaktreṇa labhyeta nādhītāgamakoṭibhiḥ // > Non-duality, indeed, is declared to be auspicious, free from ritual action; / it is attained through the mouth of the guru, not through tens of millions of studied scriptures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.91) āgamoktaṃ vivekotthaṃ dvidhā jñānaṃ pracakṣate / śabdavrahmāgamamayaṃ paraṃ brahma vivekajam // > Knowledge is said to be twofold: that derived from the scriptures, and that born of discernment. / Scriptural knowledge is the verbal Brahman; the supreme Brahman is born of discernment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.92) advaitaṃ kecidicchanti dvaitamicchanti cāpare / samaṃ tattvaṃ na jānanti dvaitāddvaitavivarjitam // > Some desire non-duality, and others desire duality; / they do not know the equal truth, free from both duality and non-duality. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.93) dve pade bandhamokṣāya namameti mameti ca / mameti badhyate janturnamameti pramucyate // > Two words lead to bondage and liberation: 'not mine' and 'mine'. / By saying 'mine' a creature is bound; by saying 'not mine' one is released. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.94) tatkarma yanna bandhāya sā vidyā yā vimuktidā / āyāsāyāparaṃ karma vidyānyā śilpanaipuṇam // > That action is \[true\] action which does not lead to bondage; that knowledge is \[true\] knowledge which grants liberation. / Other action is mere toil; other knowledge is mere technical skill. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.95) yāvatkarmāṇi dīpyante yāvatsaṃsāravāsanā / yāvadindriyacāpalyaṃ tāvattattvakathā kutaḥ // > As long as actions blaze forth, as long as worldly impressions remain, / as long as the senses are fickle, how can there be discourse on the truth? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.96) yāvaddehābhimānaśca mamatā yāvadeva hi / yāvatprayatnavego 'sti yāvatsaṃkalpakalpanā // > As long as there is pride in the body and indeed the sense of 'mine', / as long as there is the force of effort, as long as there is the fashioning of resolves, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.97) yāvanno manasaḥ sthairyaṃ na yāvacchāstracintanam / yāvanna gurukāruṇyaṃ tāvattattvakathā kutaḥ // > as long as the mind has no steadiness, as long as there is no reflection on scripture, / as long as there is no grace of the guru, how can there be discourse on the truth? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.98) tāvattapo vrataṃ tīrthaṃ japahomārcanādikam / vedaśāstrāgamakathā yāvattattvaṃ na vindati // > Austerity, religious observance, pilgrimage, recitation, oblations, worship, and so forth, / and discourse on the Vedas, scriptures, and traditional texts \[last only\] as long as one does not find the truth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.99) tasmātsarvaprayatnena sarvāvasthāsu sarvadā / tattvaniṣṭho bhavettārkṣya yadīcchenmokṣamātmanaḥ // > Therefore, by every effort, in all conditions, at all times, / one should be steadfast in the truth, O Tārkṣya, if one desires one's own liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.100) dharmajñānaprasūnasya svargamokṣaphalasya ca / tāpatrayādisantaptaśchāyāṃ mokṣataroḥ śrayet // > Scorched by the three miseries and other afflictions, one should take shelter in the shade of the tree of liberation, / whose flower is dharma and knowledge, and whose fruit is heaven and liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.101) tasmājjñānenātmatattvaṃ vijñeyaṃ śrīgurormukhāt / sukhena mucyate janturghorasaṃsārabandhanāt // > Therefore, through knowledge the truth of the self is to be known from the mouth of the revered guru; / \[then\] a creature is easily freed from the bondage of terrible transmigration. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.102) tattvajñasyāntimaṃ kṛtyaṃ śṛṇu vakṣyāmi te 'dhunā / yena mokṣamavāpnoti brahma nirvāṇasaṃjñakam // > Hear now the final rite of the knower of truth, which I shall tell you, / by which one attains liberation, Brahman called nirvāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.103) antakāle tu puruṣa āgate gatasādhvasaḥ / chindyādasaṃgaśastreṇa spṛhāṃ dehe 'nu yā ca tam // > When the final time has arrived, a man, having shed fear, / should cut with the weapon of non-attachment desire for the body and whatever follows it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.104) gṛhātpravrājito dhīraḥ puṇyatīrthajalāplutaḥ / śucau vivikta āsīno vidhivatkalpitāsane // > Departed from home, firm-minded, bathed in the waters of sacred pilgrimage places, / seated in a clean, solitary place upon a seat prepared according to the rule, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.105) abhyasenmanasā śuddhaṃ trivṛdbrahmākṣaraṃ param / mano yaṣchejjitaśvāso brahma bījamavismaran // > he should mentally practise the pure, threefold, supreme syllable of Brahman; / with breath conquered, he should restrain the mind, not forgetting the seed-syllable of Brahman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.106) niyacchedviṣayebhyo 'kṣānmanasā buddhi sārathiḥ / manaḥ karmabhirākṣiptaṃ śubhārthe dhārayeddhiyā // > With intellect as charioteer, he should restrain the senses from their objects by means of the mind; / he should hold with intellect the mind, agitated by actions, upon an auspicious object. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.107) ahaṃ brahma paraṃ dhāma brahmāhaṃ paramaṃ padam / evaṃ samīkṣya cātmānamātmanyādhāya niṣkale // > 'I am Brahman, the supreme abode; I am Brahman, the supreme state'— / having thus perceived the self and established the self in the partless \[Self\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.108) omityekākṣaraṃ brahma vyāharanmāmanusmaran / yaḥ prayāti tyajandehaṃ sa yāti paramāṃ gatim // > uttering the single-syllabled Brahman, 'Oṃ', and remembering me, / he who departs, abandoning the body, goes to the supreme goal. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.109) na yatra dāmbhikā yānti jñānavairāgyavarjitāḥ / sudhiyastāṃ gatiṃ yānti tānahaṃ kathayāmi te // > Where the hypocritical, devoid of knowledge and dispassion, do not go, / the wise go to that goal; I shall tell you of them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.110) nirmānamohā jitasaṃgadoṣā adhyātmanityā vinivṛttakāmāḥ / dvandvairvimuktāḥ sukhaduḥ khasaṃjñairgacchantyamūḍhāḥ padamavyayaṃ tat // > Free from pride and delusion, having conquered the fault of attachment, constant in the supreme self, their desires ceased, / released from the dualities known as pleasure and pain, the undeluded go to that imperishable state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.111) jñānahrade satyajale rāgadveṣamalāpahe / yaḥ snāti mānase tīrthe sa vai mokṣamavāpnuyāt // > He who bathes in the mental sacred ford, in the lake of knowledge whose water is truth, removing the impurities of passion and hatred— / he indeed attains liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.112) prauḍhavairāgyamāsthāya bhajate māmananyabhāk / pūrṇadṛṣṭiḥ prasannātmā sa vai mokṣamavāpnuyāt // > Resorting to mature dispassion, he who worships me without turning to another, / with complete vision and a tranquil self—he indeed attains liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.113) tyaktvā gṛhaṃ ca yastīrthe nivasenmaraṇotsukaḥ / muktikṣetreṣu mriyate sa vai mokṣamavāpnuyāt // > He who, having abandoned home, dwells in a sacred place, eager for death, / and dies in sacred sites of liberation—he indeed attains liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.114) ayodhyā mathurā māyā kāśī kāñcī avantika / purī dvāravatī jñeyāḥ saptaitā mokṣadāyikāḥ // > Ayodhyā, Mathurā, Māyā, Kāśī, Kāñcī, Avantikā, / and the city of Dvāravatī—these seven should be known as granters of liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.115) iti te kathitaṃ tārkṣya mokṣadharmaṃ sanātanam / jñānavairāgyasahitaṃ śrutvā mokṣamavāpnuyāt // > Thus the eternal dharma of liberation has been told to you, O Tārkṣya, / accompanied by knowledge and dispassion; having heard it, one attains liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.116) mokṣaṃ gacchanti tattvajñā dhārmikāḥ svargatiṃ narāḥ / pāpino durgatiṃ yānti saṃsaranti khagādayaḥ // > Knowers of truth attain liberation; righteous men attain the heavenly realm; / sinners go to an evil fate; birds and other beasts wander in transmigration. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.117) sūta uvāca / svapraśrottararāddhāntamevaṃ bhagavato mukhāt / śrutvā hṛṣṭatanustārkṣyo nanāma jagadīśvaram // > Sūta said: / Having thus heard from the mouth of the Lord the established conclusion answering his own questions, / his body thrilled with joy, Tārkṣya bowed down to the Lord of the Universe. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.118) sandeho me mahānnaṣṭo bhavadvākyavirocanāt / ityuktvā viṣṇumāmantrya sa gataḥ kaśyapāśramam // > 'My great doubt has been destroyed through the illumination of your words'— / having said this and bid farewell to Viṣṇu, he went to the hermitage of Kaśyapa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.119) sadyo dehāntaraṃ yāti yathā yāti vilambataḥ / anayorubhayoścaiva na virodhastathaiva vaḥ // > \[Whether the soul\] goes immediately to another body or goes after delay— / there is no contradiction between these two for you either. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.120) sarvamākhyātavāṃstāta śruto bhagavato yathā / mārīco 'pi mudaṃ lebhe śrutvā vākyaṃ ramāpateḥ // > He narrated everything, dear ones, just as it was heard from the Lord; / the son of Marīci also experienced joy upon hearing the speech of the husband of Ramā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.121) apākṛtastu sandeho brāhmaṇā bhavatāṃ mayā / uktaṃ suparṇasaṃjñantu purāṇaṃ paramādbhutam // > Your doubt, O brāhmaṇas, has been dispelled by me; / the Purāṇa named Suparṇa, exceedingly wonderful, has been told. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.122) idamāpa harestārkṣyastārkṣyādāpa tato bhṛguḥ / bhṛgorvasiṣṭhaḥ saṃprāpa vāmadevastataḥ punaḥ // > Tārkṣya received this from Hari; from Tārkṣya, then, Bhṛgu received it; / from Bhṛgu, Vasiṣṭha obtained it; then Vāmadeva again \[obtained it\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.123) parāśaramuniḥ prāpa tasmādvyāsastato hyaham / mayā tu bhavatāṃ proktaṃ paraṃ guhyaṃ hareridam // > the sage Parāśara obtained it; from him, Vyāsa; and then myself. / This supreme secret of Hari has been declared by me to you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.124) ya idaṃ śṛṇuyānmartyo yo vāpyabhidadhāti ca / ihāmutra ca loke sa sarvatra sukhamāpnuyāt // > Whatever mortal hears this, or whoever expounds it, / will attain happiness everywhere, both in this world and in the next. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.125) vrajataḥ saṃyamanyāṃ yadduḥ khamatra nirūpitam / asya śravaṇataḥ puṇyaṃ tanmukto jāyate tataḥ // > Whatever suffering of the one proceeding to Saṃyamanī has been described here— / from the merit of hearing this, he becomes freed from it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.126) atroktakarmapākādiśravaṇācca nṛṇāmiha / vairāgyamāvahedyasmāttasmācchrotavyameva ca // > And because dispassion is brought about for men here from hearing the ripening of actions and the like spoken of herein, / therefore it must certainly be heard. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.127) bhajata jitahṛṣīkāḥ kṛṣṇamenaṃ munīśaṃ samajani bata yasmādgīḥ sudhāsāradhārā / pṛṣatamapi yadīyaṃ varṇarūpaṃ nipīya śrutipuṭaculukena prāpnuyādātmanaikyam // > With senses conquered, worship this Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of Sages, from whom, ah, arose the stream of speech like a torrent of nectar, / having drunk even a single drop of which, in the form of syllables, with the cupped hollow of the ear, one may attain unity with the Self. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.128) vyāsa uvāca / iti sūtamukhodgīrṇāṃsarvaśāstrārthamaṇḍitām / vaiṣṇavīṃ vāksudhāṃ pītvā ṛṣayastuṣṭimāyayuḥ // > Vyāsa said: / Having drunk the nectar of speech sacred to Viṣṇu, uttered from the mouth of Sūta and adorned with the meaning of all scriptures, the sages reached satisfaction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.129) praśaśaṃsustathānyonyaṃ sūtaṃ sarvārthadarśinam / praharṣamatulaṃ prāpurmunayaḥ śaunakādayaḥ // > Likewise, they praised one another and Sūta, who sees the meaning of all things; / the sages headed by Śaunaka attained incomparable joy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.130) iti harivacanāni sūtavācā khagapatisaṃśayabhedakāni yāni / sa munirapi niśamya śaunakendro bahutaramānayati sma cātmani svam // > Having thus heard the words of Hari through the speech of Sūta, which severed the doubts of the Lord of Birds, / that sage, the foremost Śaunaka, also deeply honoured himself within himself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.131) apūjayaṃste munayastadānīmudākhāgbhirmuhureva sūtam / dhanyo 'si sūta tvamihetyudairayanvyasarjayaṃstaṃ ca nivartite 'dhvare // > Then those sages repeatedly worshipped Sūta with lofty words: / 'Blessed are you, O Sūta, here,' they declared, and they sent him forth when the sacrifice was completed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.131.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.131.p1) purāṇaṃ gāruḍaṃ puṇyaṃ pavitraṃ pāpanāśanam // > The Garuḍa Purāṇa is meritorious, holy, and destructive of sins; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.132) śṛṇvatāṃ kāmanāpūraṃ śrotavyaṃ sarvadaiva hi // > it fulfills the desires of those who listen; it should be heard at all times. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.133) śrutvā dānāni deyāni vācakāyākhilāni ca / pūrvoktaśayanādīni nānyathā saphalaṃ bhavet // > Having heard it, gifts should be given to the reciter, entirely— / the beds and other things mentioned earlier; otherwise it does not become fruitful. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.134) purāṇaṃ pūjayetpūrvaṃ vācakaṃ tadanantaram / vastrālaṅkāragodānairdakṣiṇābhiśca sādaram // > First one should worship the Purāṇa, and immediately after that the reciter, / with garments, ornaments, gifts of cattle, and fees, with reverent devotion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.135) annadānairhemadānairbhamidānaiśca bhūribhiḥ / pūjayedvācakaṃ bhaktyā bahupuṇyaphalāptaye // > With gifts of food, gifts of gold, and plentiful gifts of land, / one should worship the reciter with devotion to obtain the fruit of great merit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.136) yaścedaṃ śṛṇuyānmartyo yathāpi parikīrtayet / vihāya yātanāṃ ghorāṃ dhūtapāpo divaṃ vrajet // > And whatever mortal listens to this, or likewise recites it, / leaving behind dreadful torment, cleansed of sin, he will go to heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.136.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.136.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe śrīkṛṣṇagaruḍasaṃvāde dvitīyāṃśe dharmakāṇḍe pretakalpe mokṣopāyanirūpaṇaṃ nāmaikonapañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the latter section, in the dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa, in the second part, the Dharmakāṇḍa, in the Pretakalpa, ends the forty-ninth chapter, entitled "Ascertainment of the Means to Liberation." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.136.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.136.p2) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe dvitīyo dharmakāṇḍaḥ samāptaḥ > Thus ends the second section, the Dharmakāṇḍa, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.49.136.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49.136.p3) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam > The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.49.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (14) - [Kulārṇavatantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.trika.kaula.kularnava.1.5) — Sanskrit - [Tattvacintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.tattvacintamani.1.2.107) — Sanskrit - [Kulavṛtti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.kulavrtti.1.36) — Sanskrit 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Sanskrit - [Garuḍapurāṇasāroddhāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garudasaroddhara.19.2) — Sanskrit - [Muktāphala](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.muktaphala.2.40) — Vopadeva, Sanskrit - [Subhāṣitasudhānidhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.daksina.subhasitasudhanidhi.223.1-2) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.49) · Pramāṇa