[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) › 1.232 # Garudapurana 1.232 English (machine translation) 1.232 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.232.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.24) — 1 part ### [1.232.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.1) Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 232 Sūta said: / I shall declare the nectar of the lineage, the praise which Hara spoke / when questioned by Nārada; hear it as \[he said it\] to Nārada. ### [1.232.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.2) Nārada said: / The living being who in saṃsāra is ever bound by the pairs of opposites, by desire and anger, auspicious and inauspicious, / and bound and afflicted by sense-objects such as sound, foolish in mind — ### [1.232.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.3) how is that living being freed in an instant from the ocean of death and saṃsāra? / Lord, Destroyer of Tripura, I wish to hear \[this\] from you. ### [1.232.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.4) Hearing those words of his, of Nārada, the three-eyed / Śambhu, Hara, with a gracious face, spoke to that sage. ### [1.232.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.5) Maheśvara said: / The supreme secret, the mystery, the nectar of knowledge, O best of sages, / I will declare to you, which destroys sorrow and removes the fear of the bonds of existence; listen. ### [1.232.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.6) From a blade of grass up to the four-faced \[Brahmā\], the fourfold aggregate of beings, / the entire universe, moving and unmoving, is asleep through his māyā. ### [1.232.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.7) If anyone is awakened by the grace of that Viṣṇu, / he crosses over saṃsāra, which is impassable even for the gods. ### [1.232.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.8) Intoxicated with the pride of enjoyment and sovereignty, turning their faces away from the knowledge of reality, / drunk on sons, wives, and families, living beings sink down. ### [1.232.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.9) All are plunged into the single ocean like decrepit wild elephants; / but the foolish person who binds himself like a silkworm, ### [1.232.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.10) for him I see no liberation even in hundreds of millions of births. / Therefore, Nārada, filled with joy, one should always properly worship / and meditate upon the imperishable Viṣṇu, the god of all gods. ### [1.232.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.11) He who always meditates upon Viṣṇu, the all, without beginning or end, unborn, situated within the self, / omniscient, and immovable, is liberated. ### [1.232.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.12) Always meditating upon the divine Viṣṇu, who enters the womb \[of the universe\], one is liberated; / always meditating upon the bodiless Creator, the delight of all knowledge and mind, / the immovable, all-pervading Viṣṇu, one is liberated. ### [1.232.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.13) Without conceptual construct, devoid of appearance, free from manifold expansion, free from affliction, / always meditating upon Vāsudeva, the guru, Viṣṇu, one is liberated. ### [1.232.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.14) Comprising all, indeed, as the nature of the self’s consciousness, / auspicious, the single syllable, always meditating upon Viṣṇu, one is liberated. ### [1.232.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.15) Beyond speech, knowing the three times, lord of the universe, witness of the world, / higher than all, always meditating upon Viṣṇu, one is liberated. ### [1.232.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.16) Served by Brahmā and the other gods, the gandharvas, sages, siddhas, cāraṇas, / and yogins, always meditating upon Viṣṇu, one is liberated. ### [1.232.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.17) The world entirely, desiring release from the bondage of saṃsāra, / having praised thus the boon-giving Viṣṇu, always meditating \[on him\], is liberated. ### [1.232.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.18) Anyone desiring release from the bondage of saṃsāra, concentrated in mind, / always meditating upon the infinite, imperishable god Viṣṇu, established in the universe, / the lord of the universe, unborn Viṣṇu, is liberated. ### [1.232.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.19) Sūta said: / Thus questioned in ancient times by Nārada, the Bull-bannered \[Śiva\] / explained it to him, and that has been related by me to you. ### [1.232.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.20) Constantly meditating upon him alone, the imperishable, partless Brahman, / you will certainly attain, dear one, the eternal, imperishable state. ### [1.232.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.21) Thousands of horse-sacrifices and hundreds of vājapeya sacrifices / do not equal a sixteenth part of a moment of a single-pointed mind. ### [1.232.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.22) Having heard from Īśvara this supremacy of Viṣṇu, / that divine sage, having properly worshipped Viṣṇu, became perfected and attained the supreme state. ### [1.232.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.23) Whoever recites or hears this best of praises constantly, / even his sin committed in tens of millions of births is destroyed. ### [1.232.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.24) Whoever recites with effort every day this divine praise of Viṣṇu, / proclaimed by Mahādeva, goes to immortality. ### [1.232.24.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232.24.p1) Thus ends the two hundred and thirty-second chapter, entitled 'The Kulāmṛtastotra', in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.232.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.232) · Pramāṇa