[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) › 1.32 # Garudapurana 1.32 English (machine translation) 1.32 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.32.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.42) — 1 part ### [1.32.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.1) The Venerable Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 32 ### [1.32.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.2) Hari said: ### [1.32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.3) Listen to it, O Mahādeva, purifying and destroying \[the sins of the age of\] Kali. ### [1.32.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.4) Vāsudeva, constant, pure, all-pervading, unstained. ### [1.32.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.5) Viṣṇu, who grants grace to the worlds and destroys all wicked beings, ### [1.32.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.6) And abiding in the form of Pradyumna and named Aniruddha, ### [1.32.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.7) Listen to these expressive mantras of theirs, O bull-bannered one! ### [1.32.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.8) Five mantras have been declared to you as expressing the gods; ### [1.32.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.9) Now I shall fully declare the auspicious worship of the five principles, ### [1.32.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.10) First, one should bathe; having bathed, one should perform the twilight devotion. ### [1.32.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.11) Having sipped water, the wise one should sit, assuming a desired posture. ### [1.32.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.12) Having hardened the common \[body\], one should then produce the \[cosmic\] egg. ### [1.32.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.13) Vāsudeva, the Lord of the World, wearing yellow silk garments, ### [1.32.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.14) One should meditate on the Supreme Lord in the lotus of one's heart. ### [1.32.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.15) Then Pradyumna, Aniruddha, and the glorious Nārāyaṇa, ### [1.32.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.16) One should contemplate \[them\], and then one should perform the ritual placement on the two hands. ### [1.32.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.17) With the limb-mantras, O Mahādeva! Listen to those mantras, O one of good vows! ### [1.32.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.18) Oṃ obeisance to Acyuta with his entire retinue. ### [1.32.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.19) These mantras have been declared to you in brief, O Rudra. ### [1.32.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.20) Oṃ obeisance to the Lotus. ### [1.32.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.21) A man should next worship the seat, having invoked \[him\] according to the rules. ### [1.32.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.22) One should worship Garuḍa in front of Vāsudeva, O Śaṅkara; ### [1.32.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.23) Dharma, knowledge, dispassion, and sovereignty \[are to be worshipped\] starting from the east; ### [1.32.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.24) The position of the seat is taught in the middle of the three circles; ### [1.32.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.25) In the pericarp one should worship Vāsudeva, the Supreme Lord; ### [1.32.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.26) And the powers of the God of gods \[are to be worshipped\] starting from the east, O Śaṅkara; ### [1.32.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.27) Below, the serpent; and above that, the wise one should worship Brahmā. ### [1.32.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.28) Having invoked the god into the maṇḍala and performed the ritual placement for him, ### [1.32.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.29) One should offer a bath, garments, sipping water, perfumes, flowers, and incense, / a lamp, food offering, sipping water, obeisance, and circumambulation, / O Śaṅkara, with the root-mantra, and one should also dedicate the recitation. ### [1.32.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.30) Then one should recite this hymn, meditating upon Vāsudeva: / ‘Oṃ, obeisance to Vāsudeva, and obeisance to Saṃkarṣaṇa; ### [1.32.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.31) Obeisance, obeisance to Pradyumna, the primeval god, and to Aniruddha; / obeisance indeed to Nārāyaṇa, to Nara, to the Lord of men; ### [1.32.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.32) To the one worthy of men’s worship, worthy of renown, worthy of praise, and the granter of boons; / obeisance, obeisance to the one without beginning or end, the ancient one; ### [1.32.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.33) To the author of creation and destruction, and obeisance to the Lord of Brahman; / to the mind, indeed to the one known through the Vedas, and the wielder of the conch and discus; ### [1.32.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.34) To the remover of the defilements of the Kali age, and obeisance, obeisance to the lord of the gods; / to the cutter of the tree of transmigratory existence, and obeisance, obeisance to the piercer of delusion; ### [1.32.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.35) To the multiform one, the sacred ford, the one possessing the three guṇas and the devoid of guṇas; / obeisance, obeisance to the giver of liberation, having the form of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva; ### [1.32.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.36) To the gateway to liberation, to dharma, obeisance, obeisance to the ultimate release; / to the granter of all desires, whose essential nature is the supreme Brahman. ### [1.32.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.37) Deliver me who am submerged in the terrible ocean of transmigratory existence; / there is none other than you, O Lord of Gods, there is no savior, O Lord of the World! ### [1.32.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.38) I have gone to you for refuge, to all-pervading Viṣṇu; / illuminate me, freed from darkness, by bestowing the lamp of knowledge.’ ### [1.32.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.39) Thus one should praise the Lord of Gods, the destroyer of all afflictions, / and having praised him with other hymns accompanied by musical instruments, O Nīlalohita, ### [1.32.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.40) A man should meditate in his heart on Viṣṇu endowed with the five elements, / and then dismiss the god. Thus the worship has been proclaimed. ### [1.32.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.41) This excellent \[worship\] of Vāsudeva grants all desires, O Śaṅkara; / merely by this worship a man achieves his purpose. ### [1.32.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.42) And whatever man reads this worship of the five elements, O Rudra, / or listens to it or causes others to hear it, he goes to the world of Viṣṇu. ### [1.32.42.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32.42.p1) Thus in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the first section called the first part, in the section on conduct, the thirty-second chapter entitled ‘The Rule for the Worship of the Five Elements (of Viṣṇu)’. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.32.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.32) · Pramāṇa