Garudapurana 1.9
English (machine translation) 1.9
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- 1.9.12 — 1 part
1.9.1
The Holy Garuḍa Purāṇa — [Chapter] 9 / Hari said: / For the disciple initiated at the proper time, whose eyes are bound with a cloth, / one should offer a hundred and eight oblations with the root mantra.
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The oblation is considered double for a spiritual son, and threefold for an adept; / for an instructor of liberation, O Rudra, it is declared to be fourfold.
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The slayer of a guru, of Viṣṇu, of a twice-born, or of women is to be put to death by the uninitiated. / Now I shall explain the initiation that destroys both merit and demerit.
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Seating the disciples outside, one should cause concentration to be performed in them; / one should meditate on them being dried up by the airy portion, O Rudra,
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and burned by the fiery [portion], then flooded with water. / Uniting that individual soul, brilliance in brilliancy, one should cast it [into the highest state].
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One should contemplate the syllable Oṃ in the space [of the heart], and the other cause within the body; / there, one should dissolve each cause of the body from the knower of the field.
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Having brought them forth, one should subsequently reunite them one by one, O bull-bannered one. / One who is unable [to construct] the maṇḍala and the rest should mentally project [them] and worship Hari.
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And that should have four gates, in succession from the Brahma-tīrtha. / The hand is declared to be the lotus, and the fingers are regarded as the petals.
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The palm of the hand is the pericarp, and its nails are the filaments. / There, having meditated upon Hari, one should worship [him] between the sun and fire.
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With a concentrated mind, he should place that hand on the head of the disciple. / Because Viṣṇu resides in the hand, this hand is therefore the hand of Viṣṇu; / and from its touch, all sins are destroyed.
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Having worshipped the disciple, and having bound [his] eyes with a cloth, / the guru, placing him facing the deity, should then offer a flower. / Wherever the flower falls from the head of the bow-wielding deity,
1.9.12
he should assign that name to him, himself marking [the names] of women with feminine forms; / but for Śūdras, the wise man should assign [a name] joined with "dāsa".
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Thus ends the ninth chapter, named “The Description of Initiation into Viṣṇu,” in the ritual section called the first part of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit