[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) › 1.91 # Garudapurana 1.91 English (machine translation) 1.91 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.91.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.18) — 1 part ### [1.91.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.1) The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa — \[Chapter\] 91 / Sūta said: / The sages, Svāyambhuva and others, meditate upon Hari through action, / devoted to observances, proper conduct, worship, meditation, praise, and silent recitation, ### [1.91.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.2) devoid of body, sense organs, mind, intellect, vital breath, and egoism, / without space, free from fire, ### [1.91.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.3) without water, free from its attributes, / devoid of earth, and free from all elements, ### [1.91.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.4) the overseer of the elements, the ruler of the bound, the powerful lord, all-pervading, / whose form is consciousness, the overseer of all, stainless, ### [1.91.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.5) free from attachment, the great ruler, worshipped by all the gods, / whose form is splendour, without gunas, and beyond asceticism. ### [1.91.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.6) Ever devoid of rajas, beyond the three guṇas, / truly devoid of all forms, devoid of agency and the like, ### [1.91.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.7) free from latent impressions, pure, devoid of all faults, / devoid of thirst, devoid of sorrow and delusion, ### [1.91.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.8) truly free from old age and death, immovable, free from delusion, / devoid of origination and free from dissolution, ### [1.91.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.9) truth, devoid of all conventional conduct, partless, the Supreme Lord, / devoid of waking, dream, deep sleep, and the like, devoid of name, ### [1.91.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.10) the witness of waking and the other states, of peaceful form, the lord of gods, / ever abiding in waking and the other states, devoid of cause and effect, ### [1.91.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.11) seen everywhere, both formed and subtle, subtler than the subtle, supreme, / the eye of knowledge, the cognition of hearing, whose form is supreme bliss, ### [1.91.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.12) devoid likewise of the gross soul (viśva), free from the subtle soul (taijasa), / devoid of the causal soul (prājña), the fourth (turīya), the supreme imperishable, ### [1.91.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.13) the protector of all, the destroyer of all, embodying the Self of all beings, / devoid of the attributes of the intellect, without support, auspicious, Hari, ### [1.91.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.14) free from transformation, to be known through the Vedāntas alone, / of the nature of the Veda, the supreme being, beyond the senses, auspicious, ### [1.91.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.15) free from sound, devoid of taste, / devoid of touch, the god, devoid of mere form, ### [1.91.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.16) and devoid of form, completely free from smell, / the beginningless Brahman up to the aperture of the crown: 'I am purely Brahman.' ### [1.91.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.17) Having known thus, with senses subdued, one should meditate on the great god. / A person who meditates in this way truly becomes Brahman. ### [1.91.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.18) Thus the meditation upon the headless \[formless\] has been related by me to you. / Now I will declare another: what is it that you ask, O bull-bannered one? ### [1.91.18.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91.18.p1) Thus ends the ninety-first chapter, entitled 'Meditation on Hari', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.91.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.91) · Pramāṇa