[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.113 # Garudapurana 1.113 English (machine translation) 1.113 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.113.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.63) — 1 part ### [1.113.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 113. Sūta said: One should employ a person endowed with virtues and discard one devoid of virtues; / all virtues belong to the learned man, and faults alone to the fool. ### [1.113.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.2) One should always sit with the good, keep company with the good, / have dispute and friendship with the good, and engage in nothing with the wicked. ### [1.113.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.3) One may even remain in prison with the learned, the discriminating, / the knowers of dharma, and the speakers of truth, but never in a kingdom with villains. ### [1.113.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.4) \[When\] deeds are left unfinished, \[a servant\] is employed for the sake of the master's business; / therefore, one should cause all works to be carried out leaving a remainder. ### [1.113.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.5) Just as a honey-gatherer extracts the essence without destroying the flower, / \[and as\] one milks cow's milk keeping the calf in mind, so should the king \[draw taxes from\] the earth and the cow. ### [1.113.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.6) Just as the bee gathers honey gradually from flowers, / so the king, having taken revenue, should make a treasury. ### [1.113.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.7) An anthill, a honeycomb, the moon in the bright fortnight, / royal wealth, and alms increase little by little. ### [1.113.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.8) Seeing the depletion of what has been earned and the gathering of what has been given, / one should make not a single day barren in deeds of giving and study. ### [1.113.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.9) Even in the forest, faults arise for the passionate; even in the house, restraint of the five senses is austerity; / for one who engages in blameless action and whose passion has ceased, the home itself is a hermitage. ### [1.113.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.10) Dharma is preserved by truth; learning is preserved by practice; / a vessel is preserved by cleaning; a family is preserved by good conduct. ### [1.113.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.11) Better is living in the Vindhya forest, dying unfed, / better sleeping among serpents or falling into a well, / better entering into the midst of terrifying waters in a whirling eddy, / than saying to one's own kin: 'Give \[me\] even an atom of wealth.' ### [1.113.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.12) Fortunes decline with the exhaustion of destiny, not through enjoyment; / when previously earned merit is present, they never perish. ### [1.113.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.13) Learning is the ornament of brāhmaṇas; the king is the ornament of the earth; / the moon is the ornament of the sky; good character is the ornament of all. ### [1.113.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.14) Those sons of the king, equal to the moon, Bhīmasena, Arjuna, and others, brave, true to their vows, of sun-like splendour, embraced by Keśava— / even they, under the influence of evil planets, came under the sway of wretchedness and went to begging alms. Who is capable in what? The line of destiny spins \[one\] around by the force of fate. ### [1.113.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.15) By which Brahmā was constrained inside the vessel of the cosmic egg like a potter; by which Viṣṇu was cast into the great crisis of the thicket of ten incarnations; / by which Rudra was made to wander begging with a skull in the hollow of his hand; \[and by which\] the sun constantly wanders in the sky—homage to that action \[of destiny\]! ### [1.113.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.16) The giver was Bali, the beggar was the Enemy of Mura, the gift was the earth through the brāhmaṇa's mouth; / having given, the fruit obtained was only bondage! Homage to you, Destiny, who act as you please! ### [1.113.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.17) Even if Lakṣmī were the mother and Janārdana himself the father, / if there is inclination toward evil intellect, punishment falls upon him constantly. ### [1.113.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.18) In whatever manner, by whomsoever, just as action was previously determined, / that very \[fruit\] he experiences within, brought upon oneself by oneself. ### [1.113.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.19) Sorrow has been made by oneself, happiness has been made by oneself; / taking up the bed of the womb, one indeed experiences what was done in a previous body. ### [1.113.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.20) Neither in the intermediate space, nor in the midst of the ocean, nor entering into a crevice of the mountains, / nor held upon the mother's head or lap, is a man able to escape the action he has done. ### [1.113.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.21) The fortress was Trikūṭa, the moat was the ocean, the warriors were demons, the livelihood was supreme, / and the science of policy was taught by Uśanas; yet that Rāvaṇa was destroyed by the power of Time. ### [1.113.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.22) At whatever age, at whatever time, whether by day or by night, / at whatever muhūrta or moment—it happens just so, not otherwise. ### [1.113.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.23) Whether they go into the intermediate space or enter into the earth, / or take shelter in all the directions, what was not given \[in a past life\] is not obtained. ### [1.113.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.24) The knowledge studied in the past, the wealth given in the past, / and the actions done in the past indeed run ahead of the runner. ### [1.113.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.25) Actions alone are primary here; even under a favorable asterism and auspicious planet, / and though having the auspicious moment cast by Vasiṣṭha, Jānakī became a vessel of sorrow. ### [1.113.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.26) When Rāma had stout calves, and Lakṣmaṇa moved \[guided\] by sound, / and Sītā had thick hair, all three became vessels of suffering. ### [1.113.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.27) A son does not \[suffer\] by his father's action, nor a father by the son's action; / bound individually by their own karma, they go by what they have done themselves. ### [1.113.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.28) Upon bodies born of karma, bodily and mental diseases / fall here like arrows loosed by steadfast archers. ### [1.113.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.29) A resolute man pursues a goal with a mind replete with learning in one way; / like a master, karma done formerly ordains it otherwise. ### [1.113.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.30) Whether as a child, a youth, or an elder, whatever good or evil \[action\] one does, / in that very stage of life one experiences \[its fruit\] birth after birth. ### [1.113.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.31) Even an unaware man, even a man staying in a foreign land, / is borne by the wind of his own karma's falling to where its fruit lies. ### [1.113.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.32) A human being obtains the thing destined to be obtained; even a god is not able to avert it. / Therefore I do not grieve, nor do I wonder: the writing on the forehead does not depart; what is ours is not others'. ### [1.113.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.33) The snake runs into a well, the elephant to a shoulder \[of a mountain\], and the mouse into a hole; / a person runs swiftly indeed: who escapes from karma? ### [1.113.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.34) True knowledge does not become small; even when given away, it grows; / just like water in a well, it truly becomes abundant water. ### [1.113.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.35) The wealth that comes by dharma is true; those riches that depart are by adharma. / For dharma and wealth are great in the world; remembering that, one should act for the sake of wealth. ### [1.113.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.36) Whatever miseries a wretched person undergoes for the sake of food, / if he endured those very ones for the sake of dharma, he would no longer be a vessel of affliction. ### [1.113.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.37) Of all purifications, purification of food is deemed superior; / he who is pure through righteous acquisition of food is pure through purification, not he who is pure by clay and water. ### [1.113.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.38) Truth is purification, purity of mind is purification, restraint of the senses is purification, / compassion toward all beings is purification, and purification by water is the fifth. ### [1.113.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.39) He who possesses truth and purity finds heaven not difficult to attain; / he whose speech is true surpasses \[the merit of\] a horse sacrifice. ### [1.113.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.40) Even with a thousand lumps of earth and a hundred waters, / a man of wicked conduct, his mind corrupted in intention, is not purified. ### [1.113.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.41) He whose hands, feet, and mind are well-restrained, / who has learning, austerity, and renown, attains the fruit of pilgrimage. ### [1.113.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.42) He is not elated by honors, nor is he enraged by insults; / when angered, he does not speak harsh words: this is the mark of a virtuous man. ### [1.113.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.43) Though hearing timely, beneficial words from a poor man / who is wise and agreeable, no one is pleased. ### [1.113.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.44) What is unobtainable cannot be obtained by mortals through the power of mantras, vigor, / intellect, or human effort; what lamentation can there be over that? ### [1.113.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.45) Unasked for, he was obtained by me; again, at my sending, he has departed. / He has gone whence he came; what lamentation can there be over that? ### [1.113.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.46) Upon a single tree at night there is a gathering of various birds; / at dawn they go in different directions; what lamentation can there be over that? ### [1.113.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.47) Among all those travelling together who set out in a single caravan, / if one goes swiftly ahead, what lamentation can there be over that? ### [1.113.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.48) Beings have an unmanifest beginning, a manifest middle, O Śaunaka, / and an unmanifest end; what lamentation can there be over that? ### [1.113.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.49) One whose time has not arrived does not die, even if pierced by hundreds of arrows; / but touched merely by the tip of a kuśa blade, one whose time has arrived does not live. ### [1.113.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.50) One obtains only what is to be obtained; one goes only where one is destined to go; / one experiences only what is to be experienced, both sorrows and joys. ### [1.113.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.51) A person meets with this and that; what will he accomplish with lamentations? / Just as flowers and fruits, when impelled, / do not pass by their proper season, so too does karma performed in the past. ### [1.113.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.52) Neither conduct, nor lineage, nor learning, nor knowledge, nor virtues, nor purity of seed \[matter\]; / fortunes earned earlier through austerity bear fruit for him in due time, just like trees. ### [1.113.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.53) Death is there where the slayer is; fortune is there where prosperities are; / there and there one goes of oneself, driven by one's own karmas. ### [1.113.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.54) Karma performed formerly follows the doer, / just as a calf among thousands of cows finds its mother. ### [1.113.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.55) Thus karma performed formerly follows the doer. / Enjoy your own good deed, fool; why do you torment yourself? ### [1.113.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.56) Just as karma was performed formerly, whether auspicious or inauspicious, / even so it truly follows the doer into another birth. ### [1.113.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.57) A low person sees the faults of others though small as mustard seeds; / his own, though large as bilva fruits, he does not see even while looking. ### [1.113.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.58) For those endowed with passion, hatred, and the like, there is no happiness anywhere, O twice-born; / examining it indeed, I see that true happiness is where there is tranquil release. ### [1.113.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.59) Where there is attachment, there is fear; attachment is a vessel of grief; / sorrows have their root in attachment; when that is abandoned, there is great happiness. ### [1.113.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.60) The body alone is the abode of both sorrow and happiness; / life and the body are born together by nature itself. ### [1.113.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.61) All dependence on others is sorrow; all self-reliance is happiness. / One should know this in brief as the definition of pleasure and pain. ### [1.113.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.62) After pleasure comes sorrow; after sorrow comes pleasure; / pleasure and sorrow revolve like a wheel for human beings. ### [1.113.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.63) What is gone is past; if it is to be, it is far off; / he who conducts himself with the present is not afflicted by grief. ### [1.113.63.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113.63.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and thirteenth chapter, in the Bṛhannītisāra of the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first part called the Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.113.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.113) · Pramāṇa