[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) › 3.11 # Garudapurana 3.11 Garuḍapurāṇa 3.11 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [3.11.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.48) — 1 part ### [3.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 11 śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca / puruṣākhyo hariḥ sākṣādbhagavānpuruṣottamaḥ / śiśyetvaṇḍodaka viṣṇurnṛṇāṃ sāhasravatsaram / lakṣmīścodakarūpeṇa śayyārūpeṇa bhoṇḍajā // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — Chapter 11. / Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / Directly Hari named Puruṣa, the blessed Puruṣottama, / Viṣṇu, lay upon the waters of the cosmic egg for a thousand years of men. / And Lakṣmī, in the form of water and in the form of the couch, O bird-born one, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.2) vidyā taraṅgarūpeṇa vāyurūpeṇa bhoṇḍaja // > and Vidyā, in the form of waves and in the form of the wind, O bird-born one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.3) tamorūpeṇa saivāsī nnānyadāsītkathañcana / asīdgarbhodake caiva nānyadāsītkathañcana // > She herself existed in the form of darkness; nothing else existed at all. / She was in the Garbhodaka waters, and nothing else existed at all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.4) lakṣmīstuṣṭāva ca hariṃ garbhode pakṣisattama / lakṣmīdharābhyāṃ rūpābhyāṃ prakṛtirhariṇā tathā // > Lakṣmī praised Hari in the Garbhodaka waters, O best of birds. / Through the two forms of Lakṣmī and Dharā, Prakṛti likewise with Hari > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.5) śeta śrutisvarūpeṇa stauti garbhodake harim / nārāyaṇa namaste 'stu śṛṇu vijñāpanaṃ mama // > lay, and in the form of the Śruti praised Hari in the Garbhodaka waters: / “O Nārāyaṇa, homage to you! Listen to my petition: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.6) ajāṃ jahi mahābhāga yogyānāṃ muktimāvaha / ajā tu prakṛtiḥ proktā cāparā prakṛtiḥ parā // > Destroy the unborn one (Ajā), O fortunate one, and bring liberation to the worthy! / For Ajā is declared as the lower Prakṛti, and \[I am\] the higher Prakṛti. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.7) śatatovarā tu brahmāṇī brahmapatnī varānanā / umā śacyavarā tasyā avarāḥ saṃprakīrtitāḥ // > Lower by a hundredfold is Brahmāṇī, the fair-faced wife of Brahmā; / Umā and Śacī are lower than she; those lower \[than them\] are proclaimed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.8) etāsāṃ hananaṃ naiva prārthayāmaḥ sadā hare / asti pratinṛṣu brahma prakṛtī dve vyavasthite // > We do not pray for their destruction at all, ever, O Hari. / In every human being, O Brahman, two prakṛtis are established: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.9) ekā tu nityasaṃsārā tvajaśabdābhidhāyikā / dvitīyā tu tamo 'pohyā ajaśabdābhidhāyikā // > one is characterized by eternal worldly bondage and designated by the word ajā; / the second dispels darkness and is designated by the word aja. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.10) ata eva tvaje jyeṣṭhe iti loke prakīrtite / sukhaduḥ khapradā caiva aparā duḥ khadaiva tu // > Therefore, the two unborn ones are proclaimed in the world as elder and younger; / one gives happiness and misery, while the other gives misery alone.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.11) mokṣādhikāriṇāmeva jñānaiśvaryādayo gaṇāḥ / teṣāmācchādikā hokā tamoṅgā sā prakīrtitā // > The groups of virtues, such as knowledge and majesty, belong only to those qualified for liberation; / one \[sheath\] that covers them is proclaimed as having darkness (tamas) as its limb. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.12) jīvaṃ prati mahāviṣṇuṃ pāhyācchādayati prabho / sā parā prakṛtirjñeyā paramācchādikā smṛtā // > O Lord, it protects and veils Mahāviṣṇu with respect to the individual soul; / that should be known as the supreme nature (prakṛti), remembered as the ultimate veiling power. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.13) evaṃ sā paramā duṣṭā hokā tamoṅgā tu prakīrtitā / jīvavargeṣveva khaga brahmādernāsti sā kvacit // > Thus, that supreme and wicked one is indeed proclaimed as having darkness as its limb; / it exists only among the classes of souls, O bird, never in Brahmā and the others. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.14) piśācavatsamuddiṣṭā jīvasyetyadhikāriṇaḥ / prerikā tu tayordevyo stvahamādyā sukhātmikā // > It is taught as resembling a goblin for the soul who is eligible; / but the impeller of both these goddesses is the blissful one whose nature is the primal 'I'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.15) tatra viṣṇo mahābhāga saguṇācchādako hitaḥ / paramācchādikāṃ duṣṭāṃ vyāmucyaiva mahāprabho // > There, O illustrious Viṣṇu, you are beneficial as the one who conceals your qualities, / completely releasing the wicked ultimate veiling power, O great Lord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.16) mokṣaṃ dehi mahādeva tvadbhaktānāṃ mahāprabho / paramācchādikā hyasmānnitya saṃsāriṇo yataḥ // > Grant liberation, O great God, O great Lord, to your devotees; / for because of this ultimate veiling power, souls transmigrate perpetually. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.17) ata eva ca nityatvāttasmāttadapasāraṇam / kuru deva mahābhāga iti vijñāyatāṃ mama // > Therefore, and because it is perpetual, remove it, / O illustrious God! Let this plea of mine be known. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.18) evaṃ stuto hariḥ kṛṣṇo suprabuddho 'pi sarbadā / udvuddhavanmahā viṣṇurabhūdajñaparīkṣayā // > Praised in this manner, Hari Kṛṣṇa, though ever fully awakened, / Mahāviṣṇu acted like one newly awakened, as an examination of the ignorant. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.19) tasya nābherabhūtpadmaṃ sauvarṇaṃ bhuvanāśrayam / tatprākṛtaṃ ca vijñeyaṃ bhūdevī tvabhimāninī // > From his navel arose a golden lotus, the abode of the worlds; / that is to be known as material nature (prākṛta), presided over by Bhūdevī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.20) anantasūryavaccaiva prakāśakaramīritam / cidānandamayo viṣṇustasmādbhinno na saṃśayaḥ // > It is declared to be illuminating like countless suns; / Viṣṇu, consisting of consciousness and bliss, is distinct from it—there is no doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.21) viṣṇoḥ svarūpabhūtaṃ ca ye vijānanti te narāḥ / te yānti hyadharaṃ lokaṃ tathā tatsaṃgisaṃginaḥ // > Those men who know it as Viṣṇu’s own form / go to the lower world, as do those who associate with their associates. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.22) kirīṭādikavaccaiva jñātavyaṃ ca khageśvara / kirīṭādyā api harerdvidhā saṃti na saṃśayaḥ // > And in the same way, the crown and other ornaments must be understood, O Lord of Birds; / Hari's crown and other ornaments are also of two kinds, without a doubt: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.23) svarūpā hyasvarūpāśca svasvarūpani darśane / gṛhītā iti vijñeyā na svarūpāḥ khageśvara // > They are identical with his own form (svarūpa) and non-identical with his own form; / in the vision of his essential form, those that are assumed are to be known as not identical with his form, O Lord of Birds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.24) bhmāṇḍaṃ hyasṛjattatra sarvalokavidhāyakam / pralaye muktihīnaśca supta ityucyate budhaḥ // > There he created the cosmic egg, which establishes all the worlds; / and during cosmic dissolution, one devoid of liberation who sleeps is called wise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.25) tasya samivastrivaṃ ca na jñātavyā khageśvara / pralayopi mahābhāga brahmavāyvorna cāsti hi // > Its real nature is not to be understood in that way, O Lord of Birds; / for even dissolution, O illustrious one, does not exist for Brahmā and Vāyu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.26) vṛttirūpaṃ paraṃ jñānaṃ pādyārghyaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ / indriyāṇāmuparatiḥ suptirityucyate budhaiḥ // > Higher knowledge in the form of a mental modification is the true offering, there is no doubt here; / the cessation of the senses is called deep sleep by the wise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.27) brahmavāyvośca pāsagni vāstavaṃ syātkhageśvara / kathaṃ tarhi tayorvarte hyavilatyatvamucyate // > If it were real in the case of Brahmā and Vāyu, O Lord of Birds, / how then is it said that they remain unchanging? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.28) tasmāttadvāstavaṃ nāsti brahmavāyvoḥ khageśvara / svapnāvasthāyāḥ sadṛśī hyavasthā suptisaṃjñikā // > Therefore, that is not real for Brahmā and Vāyu, O Lord of Birds; / the state called deep sleep is similar to the dream state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.29) brahmaṇyamukhyayā vṛttyā hyastītyevaṃ nibodha me / ato na vāstavamidamaṅgīkāryaṃ khageśvara // > Understand from me that it exists in Brahmā only in a secondary sense; / therefore, this is not to be accepted as real, O Lord of Birds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.30) vāstavaṃ ye vijānanti teṣāṃ nityaṃ dhanaṃ tapaḥ / śrīgaruḍa uvāca / suptistvajñānakāryatvātsuptirnāstītyudīritā // > Those who consider it real possess eternal wealth and austerity. > Śrī Garuḍa said: > Deep sleep is said not to exist because it is the effect of ignorance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.31) yadā hi kāraṇaṃ cāsti tadā kāryamiti prabho / ityabhiprāyagarbheṇa tvaṃ samādhāsya te yadi // > For when there is a cause, then there is an effect, O Lord; / if you resolve this with an intention pregnant with meaning, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.32) tarhi tasya mahābhāga kathaṃ brūhi bhayādikam / bhayādikaṃ hyastu nāma kā vāsmākaṃ kṣatirbhavet // > then tell me, O illustrious one, how he experiences fear and the like? / Indeed, let fear and the like exist—what harm would there be to us? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.33) evamuktastu govindobravīttatrāpi kāraṇam / bhayaṃ tvajñānakāryaṃ syātkāryākāraṇamatra hi // > Addressed thus, Govinda also stated the reason there: / 'Fear is the effect of ignorance; here, indeed, the cause is absent from the effect. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.34) prīyate matvā brahma tasmātsuptiśca tatra hi / ajñādikaṃ yadi brahma tasya na syātkathañcana // > Brahman is delighted, having understood it; therefore deep sleep exists there. / If ignorance and the like were in no way present in Brahmā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.35) kathaṃ sukhī pradṛśyeta na kathañcitkariṣyati / kathaṃ vā muktiparyantaṃ jñānavyaktirvadasva me // > how could he appear joyful? He would not act in any way. / Tell me, how would the manifestation of knowledge occur up to liberation? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.36) yadyajñānaṃ tasya satyaṃ na syāttarhi mahāprabho / atyādarātkathaṃ brahmañchravaṇaṃ kurute vada // > If ignorance were not truly his, then, O great Lord, / tell me, why does Brahmā listen \[to scriptures\] with the utmost reverence?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.37) iti tasya vacaḥ śrutvā kṛṣṇo vacanamabravīt / bhayaṃ ca vāstavaṃ tasya na jānīhi mahāmate // > Having heard his words, Kṛṣṇa spoke this speech: / 'Know that his fear is not real, O noble-minded one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.38) dṛśyate madbhayaṃ tasya hariprītyarthameva ca / bhayākāmavatīvānamuvāstavamīritam // > His fear toward me is seen only for the sake of pleasing Hari; / it is declared to be unreal, like the appearance of fear in one free from desire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.39) prāptaprābdhaleśasta tasya nāsti khageśvara / duḥ khājñānādikaṃ kiñcitkathaṃ tasmin bhaviṣyati // > Not even a trace of accumulated karma exists in him, O Lord of Birds; / how could there be any suffering, ignorance, or the like in him? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.40) viṣṇorājñānusāreṇa bhayāyānukarotyasau / tena prīṇāti ca haristasya nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ // > He acts out fear in accordance with Viṣṇu's command; / thereby he pleases Hari; of this there is no doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.41) śṛṇoti satataṃ brahmā na cintyāttāvatājñatā / kadāciddṛśyate brahmā duḥ khī na ca khageśvara // > Brahmā is constantly listening; ignorance should not be imagined merely on that account; / sometimes Brahmā is seen as sorrowful, and yet he is not, O Lord of Birds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.42) yadbrahma ca na jānīyāddhariprītyarthameva ca / duḥ khivaddṛśyate brahmā ājñānāṃ mohanāya ca // > That which Brahmā might appear not to know is only for the sake of pleasing Hari; / Brahmā appears like one in sorrow in order to delude the ignorant. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.43) yogyatāmanatikramya yāvajjñānaṃ ca tiṣṭhati / brahmaṇastāvadevāsti nātra kāryā vicāraṇā // > As much knowledge as can exist without exceeding his inherent capacity, / exactly that much exists in Brahmā; no doubt should be entertained here. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.44) jñānasya vyaktatā nāma vidyamānasya cādarāt / jñānasyāsādanaṃ caiva jñānavyaktiriti smṛtā // > The manifestation of knowledge is indeed the attainment, through reverence, / of knowledge that already exists; this is remembered as the manifestation of knowledge. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.45) ato jñānādikaṃ nāsti brahmaṇaḥ parameṣṭhinaḥ / padmāddhiraṇma yājjāto brahmā tu caturānanaḥ // > Therefore, \[real\] ignorance and the like do not belong to Brahmā, the supreme lord. / The four-faced Brahmā was born from the golden lotus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.46) sarvadā'locanāyuktastena svālocanaṃ kṛtam / ajñānāṃ mohanārthāya hariprītyarthameva ca // > Ever endowed with contemplation, he engaged in self-inquiry / in order to delude the ignorant and only for the sake of pleasing Hari. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.47) saṃkalpopi tathaivāsti na hyajñānātkṛtastathā / ko vā māṃ sṛṣṭavānatra iti hyālocya sa prabhuḥ // > His resolve is likewise so, not produced out of ignorance. / Considering, "Who indeed has created me here?", that lord, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.48) taṃ vicārayituṃ brahmā padmanāḍīṃ viveśa ha // > Brahmā entered the stalk of the lotus in order to investigate him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.11.48.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11.48.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe dvitīyāṃśe dharmakāṇḍe śrīkṛthṇagaruḍasaṃvāde 'jñānahetunirūpaṇaṃ nāmaikādaśo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the eleventh chapter, titled 'Determination of the Cause of Ignorance', in the dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa, in the section on Dharma, in the second part of the Uttarakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.11.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.11) · Pramāṇa