[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) › 1.226 # Garudapurana 1.226 English (machine translation) 1.226 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.226.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.40) — 1 part ### [1.226.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.1) Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 226 Sūta said: I will declare the supreme great yoga with its limbs, which grants worldly enjoyment and liberation, which pacifies all sins; listen to it recited with devotion. ### [1.226.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.2) "Mine" is the root of sorrow; "not mine" is its cessation. For the wise Dattātreya spoke this to Alarka: ### [1.226.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.3) The sprout "I" has sprung up; it has the great trunk "mine", where houses and fields are the branches, and a wife is the new shoot. ### [1.226.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.4) Wealth and grain are its large leaves; its root is sin; it is very difficult to pass; the great tree of ignorance has grown, \[and must be cut\] duly for the sake of happiness and peace. ### [1.226.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.5) Felled by the axe of knowledge, they dissolve into the Lord; having attained and drunk the essence of Brahman, devoid of dust, free of thorns, ### [1.226.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.6) the supreme wise attain the bliss of cessation; there is indeed dissolution of forms and senses; you are not \[this\], O king, nor am I. ### [1.226.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.7) Neither the subtle elements and the like through speech, nor likewise the internal organ: what do you see, O best of kings, as the fundamental material of us two? ### [1.226.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.8) The knower of the field who died yesterday is born today, made of the qualities; even in unity there is distinct existence, such is the case, O king, of the field and the Self. ### [1.226.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.9) This separation is preceded by knowledge, and when knowledge is dissolved, it is so for a yogi; that liberation is unity with Brahman, and disunity with the material qualities. ### [1.226.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.10) That is the house where one lives; that is the food by which one lives; whatever leads to liberation, only that is declared knowledge; ignorance is not otherwise. ### [1.226.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.11) Through the experiencing of merits and demerits, O ruler of the earth, and likewise through the destruction of daily duties by non-performance: ### [1.226.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.12) Non-violence, truth, non-stealing, celibacy, and non-possession— these are the five restraints; then the observances: purity is declared to be of two kinds; ### [1.226.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.13) contentment, peace through austerity, worship of Vāsudeva, and self-restraint; posture is spoken of as the lotus posture and others; breath control is the conquest of the wind. ### [1.226.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.14) That too is of three kinds in each case: by inhalation, retention, and exhalation; that which has ten measures is light; that which is double that is medium; ### [1.226.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.15) that which has triple measures is pronounced superior; that which is endowed with silent repetition and meditation is 'with seed'; the opposite is 'without seed'. ### [1.226.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.16) With the first \[kind of breath-control\] one should overcome sleepiness, and with the middle one, trembling; / with the third, indeed, \[one should conquer\] digestion, and in due order the defects that arise. ### [1.226.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.17) Seated in a posture, one should meditate, placing the praṇava in the heart, / touching the penis and testicles with both heels, with single-pointed mind. ### [1.226.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.18) Restraining the activity of tamas by rajas, and likewise that of rajas by sattva, / becoming motionless and steady, the knower of yoga should practice. ### [1.226.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.19) Restraining the senses from the sense objects, and also the breath and the mind / by collective control, he should undertake withdrawal \[of the senses\]. ### [1.226.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.20) Eighteen breath-controls are prescribed as concentration. / Yoga is considered by the yogins who see the truth to consist of two concentrations. ### [1.226.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.21) First in the nāḍī, and here in the heart, and thirdly likewise in the chest, / in the throat, in the mouth, at the tip of the nose, in the eyes, between the eyebrows, on the crown of the head, ### [1.226.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.22) and somewhat beyond that—concentration is remembered as tenfold. / Having attained these ten concentrations, he attains identity with the Imperishable. ### [1.226.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.23) Just as fire cast into fire \[becomes one\], so the self merges into the Supreme Self. / One should recite the single syllable 'Om,' which is the form of Brahman and of great merit. ### [1.226.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.24) The letter 'a', likewise the letter 'u', and the letter 'm' are the three syllables. / These are the three morae, corresponding to sattva, rajas, and tamas. ### [1.226.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.25) The half-mora, devoid of qualities, accessible to yogins, stands as the supreme; / it should be known as Gāndhārī, resting on the note gāndhāra. / Such is the syllable Brahman, known as the supreme Om. ### [1.226.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.26) 'I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from the gross body. / I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from old age and death. ### [1.226.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.27) I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from the impurity of earth. / I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from air and space. ### [1.226.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.28) I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from the subtle body. / I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from place and non-place. ### [1.226.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.29) I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from the subtle element of smell. / I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from hearing and skin. ### [1.226.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.30) I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from tongue and smell. / I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from the prāṇa and apāna breaths. ### [1.226.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.31) I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from the vyāna and udāna breaths. / I am Brahman, the supreme light, free from ignorance. ### [1.226.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.32) I am Brahman, the supreme light, the fourth state, the supreme abode, / free from body, senses, mind, intellect, breath, and ego. ### [1.226.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.33) Eternally pure, awakened, liberated, of the nature of supreme bliss, non-dual, / I am Brahman, the supreme light, whose form is knowledge, for liberation.' ### [1.226.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.34) Sūta said: / Thus has the eight-limbed yoga that grants liberation been spoken by me, O Śaunaka. / Having entered the dissolution of daily and occasional \[rites\], those bound by nature, ### [1.226.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.35) are indeed born in saṃsāra, not having attained the one Supreme Self. / One deluded by ignorance is freed, and being freed \[attains liberation\] through knowledge. ### [1.226.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.36) Then the yogin does not die sorrowful, nor sick, nor bound; / he is not joined with sins, nor does he cook in hell. ### [1.226.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.37) He does not suffer in dwelling in a womb; he becomes the imperishable Nārāyaṇa. / The Blessed Lord, the giver of worldly enjoyment and liberation, is attainable through undivided devotion. ### [1.226.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.38) Purity of mind is attained through meditation, worship, recitations, proper hymns of praise, strict vows, / sacrifices, and gifts; through that, knowledge is obtained. ### [1.226.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.39) The twice-born have reached liberation by the recitation of mantras beginning with the praṇava; / Indra too attained the supreme station, as did the excellent gandharvas and apsarases. ### [1.226.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.40) The gods attained godhood, the sages attained saghood, / the gandharvas became gandharvas, and kings attained kingship. ### [1.226.40.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226.40.p1) Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-sixth chapter, named 'The Description of the Eight-limbed Yoga', in the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first portion of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.226.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.226) · Pramāṇa