Garudapurana 1.121
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1.121.1
The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 121 / Brahmā said: / I declare the four-month observances; one should undertake them on the eleventh day, / or on the full-moon day of Āṣāḍha, having worshipped Hari with everything:
1.121.2
‘This religious observance, O God, has been undertaken by me in your presence; / let it reach completion without obstacles, with you being pleased, O Keśava!
1.121.3
If I should die while this religious observance is undertaken and incomplete, O God, / then let it become complete for me by your grace, O Janārdana!’
1.121.4
Having worshipped thus, one should undertake the observance's worship, recitation, and the like; / and all sin goes to destruction for one who wishes to perform Hari's religious observance.
1.121.5
Whoever, having bathed and worshipped, undertakes the observance's worship, recitation, and the like, / and, having bathed, worships Viṣṇu for the four months eating once a day, / he goes to Viṣṇu's world, which is free of all stain.
1.121.6
One who abstains from intoxicating drink, meat, and liquor becomes knowledgeable in the Vedas from worshipping Hari; / one who abstains from oil attains Viṣṇu's world; one who performs a quarter-kṛcchra shares in Viṣṇu.
1.121.7
From fasting for one single night, one becomes a celestial traveling in an aerial chariot; / from three nights, a man goes to Śvetadvīpa; one who eats only at the sixth mealtime [reaches the same].
1.121.8
From the cāndrāyaṇa penance, one attains Hari's abode and unasked liberation; / the prājāpatya penance brings Viṣṇu's world; the performer of the parāka observance attains Hari.
1.121.9
Eating barley meal, barley gruel, or alms; consuming milk, curds, and ghee; / taking cow urine and barley as food; eating the five products of the cow; / eating vegetables, roots, fruits, and the like, and abstaining from spiced juices, one shares in Viṣṇu.
1.121.9.p1
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-first chapter, entitled “Explanation of the Four-Month Religious Observance,” in the section on conduct, within the first portion of the first section in the glorious and great Garuḍa Purāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit