Garudapurana 1.103
English (machine translation) 1.103
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- 1.103.5 — 1 part
1.103.1
en:The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—103
Yājñavalkya said: / I will declare the duty of the mendicant; learn it, O best of men! / Having performed the sacrifice with all one’s property as the sacrificial fee from the forest or from the house,
1.103.2
en:And at its end the sacrifice to Prajāpati, depositing the sacred fire into himself, / devoted to the welfare of all beings, calm, bearing a triple staff and a water pot,
1.103.3
en:Having renounced all gardens and places of delight, seeking alms, he should resort to a village; / unheedless, he should wander for alms in the late afternoon, unnoticed,
1.103.4
en:In a village that has already been traversed by mendicants, taking only enough for sustenance, free from greed. / He may be a paramahaṃsa or a single-staff bearer through self-restraint and the like.
1.103.5
en:Accomplished in yoga, casting off the body, he attains immortality in this world; / a householder who is generous, fond of guests, endowed with knowledge, is also liberated in the ancestral rite.
1.103.5.p1
en:Thus ends the hundred and third chapter, named ‘The Exposition of the Duties of Forest Hermit and Renouncer as Spoken by Yājñavalkya,’ in the Conduct Section of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit