[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) › 1.237 # Garudapurana 1.237 English (machine translation) 1.237 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.237.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.12) — 1 part ### [1.237.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.1) The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa \[Chapter\] 237. / The Blessed Lord said: / I shall declare the essence of the Gītā, spoken to Arjuna of old, / his mind yoked to the eight-limbed yoga, having traversed the whole of Vedānta. ### [1.237.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.2) Attainment of the Self is supreme, no other, the Self being devoid of body and the rest; / devoid of form and the rest, ending in the body, it is the eye because of being the inner organ. ### [1.237.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.3) The vital breath is devoid of consciousness, for it is perceived \[as such\] in deep sleep; / and 'I am not the Self' \[is false\], because of connection with worldly existence, sorrow, and the like. ### [1.237.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.4) Like a smokeless, blazing flame, luminous like the sun, / like lightning-fire in the sky, \[the Self is\] in the heart, by the self in the Self. ### [1.237.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.5) The ears and other \[organs\] do not each see themselves by themselves; / the omniscient, all-seeing Knower of the Field sees them. ### [1.237.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.6) When the Self shines forth like a lamp blazing on a canvas, / knowledge arises in men through the destruction of sinful karma. ### [1.237.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.7) Just as on the surface of a mirror, one sees the Self in the self; / \[having enumerated\] the senses and the sense-objects, and the five great elements, ### [1.237.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.8) the mind, the intellect, the ego, the unmanifest, and likewise the Puruṣa; / having thoroughly discerned the supreme, pervasive \[reality\], one becomes freed from the enemies of bondage. ### [1.237.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.9) Having entered the entire collection of senses with the mind, / and having established the mind in the ego, O son of Pāṇḍu, ### [1.237.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.10) and likewise the ego in the intellect, and the intellect in Prakṛti, / having placed Prakṛti in Puruṣa, one should fix Puruṣa in Brahman. ### [1.237.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.11) Having meditated, 'I am Brahman, the supreme light,' one is liberated. / This house has nine gates and five witnesses of the three \[guṇas\]; ### [1.237.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.12) the wise person who knows it to be presided over by the Knower of the Field is an excellent sage. / Thousands of horse sacrifices and hundreds of Vājapeya sacrifices, / all together, are not worth a sixteenth part of the sacrifice of knowledge. ### [1.237.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237.12.p1) Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa, in the first section called the first part, in the section on conduct, the two hundred thirty-seventh chapter, named 'Determination of the Essence of the Venerable Bhagavad Gītā.' ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.237.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.237) · Pramāṇa