[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) › 3.21 # Garudapurana 3.21 English (machine translation) 3.21 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [3.21.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.33) — 1 part ### [3.21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.1) Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 21 / The blessed Kṛṣṇa said: / I shall also speak of Kālindī’s birth, O King of Birds. / There was the sun named Vivasvat; to him a daughter was born, ### [3.21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.2) Named Kālindī, O chief of birds, who is known as Yamunā's younger sister. / With the desire to become Kṛṣṇa’s wife, she practiced supreme austerity. ### [3.21.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.3) Austerity is declared to be reflection and ascertainment of the principles; / repentance for sins accumulated in the past is considered austerity. ### [3.21.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.4) Austerity is designated by the name prāya; citta is said to be control of the mind. / This is called 'prāyaścitta' (expiation), not tonsure of the head, O King of Birds. ### [3.21.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.5) Hear that, filled with repentance, which took place, O King of Birds: / "Formerly, the divine mantra was not muttered, O Mukunda; \[I was\] ever tormented by the forest fire of afflictions. ### [3.21.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.6) The nectar of Hari's name was not remembered at all, while the faults and such of Hari were constantly remembered; / the nectar of Hari’s truth was not remembered, while fickle gossip and the like was eagerly listened to. ### [3.21.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.7) Hari’s lotus feet were not worshipped, whereas sons, friends, and others were well worshipped; / Hari’s lotus feet were not saluted, whereas the terrible feet of friends were thoroughly saluted. ### [3.21.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.8) Hari’s face, encircled by fragrant incense-smoke and covered with locks of hair, was not beheld; / sons and others were pampered indeed, O Mukunda, but your face was not cherished, O Murāri! ### [3.21.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.9) Sons and friends were well adorned with ornaments, but the remover of all sins was not cherished; / the remnants of food offered to Hari were not consumed, while food of six tastes was eaten in the house of friends. ### [3.21.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.10) Fragrant flowers and scents were not offered to you, O Murāri, but were offered to sons, friends, and the like; / I have suffered greatly on account of sons, friends, and the like; when shall I behold your face, O Mukunda? ### [3.21.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.11) My tongue has been burned by food of non-Vaiṣṇavas, by drumstick leaves and the like, by unoffered foods, and also by unpurified / and inedible foods; when shall I behold your face, O Mukunda? ### [3.21.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.12) My body has not been purified, O Murāri, through the worship with the eight-syllabled mantra and divine holy waters, the conch-waters previously circumambulated around Viṣṇu; / when shall I behold your face, O Mukunda? ### [3.21.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.13) My body has been burned by unoffered perfumes, flowers, and the like, by unoffered ornaments and garments, / and by the pollution of scents and such smeared by non-Vaiṣṇavas; when, O Mukunda, shall I deliver it? ### [3.21.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.14) Both my feet are burned, O Vāsudeva, not walking on the path to Hari's sacred place; / and both my eyes are burned for all time, not having gazed upon your form, O God! ### [3.21.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.15) Both my hands are burned, O Vāsudeva, not having worshipped your form, O Viṣṇu! / An array of sins has been committed by me, O Murāri; when shall I behold your face, O Mukunda? ### [3.21.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.16) O Perfect One, not counting my faults, grant compassion out of pure servitorship, O Mukunda! / As many hairs as there are upon my body, O Lord far removed from all defects, ### [3.21.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.17) So many sins are on my body; when shall I behold your face, O Mukunda? / Across endless bodies, with husbands, sons, and homes, with friends, wealth, cattle, and servants, ### [3.21.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.18) Not even a fraction of happiness was obtained, O Mukunda, while the service of you, God Viṣṇu, was abandoned! / Henceforth I shall not go after sons, friends, and the like; I shall become your servant. ### [3.21.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.19) Whoever might say that complete happiness arises in the mortal world through sons, friends, and the like, / urine, feces, and the like have fallen completely into their mouths at all times—so I consider. ### [3.21.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.20) Whatever wealth was spent on friends and others went in vain and became of the nature of filth; / whatever wealth was spent on true Vaiṣṇavas ever becomes the cause of attaining Hari. ### [3.21.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.21) Such as it was, that has occurred, O Mukunda; enough, indeed enough of the sorrow that was endured through it! / Do grant always the company of good people, away from the company of wicked people! ### [3.21.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.22) Through association always with the wicked, O Murāri, my body has been burned, not endowed with detachment; / being such, to what state shall I go, O Mukunda? I do not know; protect me with compassion!" ### [3.21.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.23) Such indeed is repentance, O King of Birds, \[which is true\] expiation, and not tonsure and the like. / Having made repentance, the Sun’s daughter reflected upon the true nature of Hari: ### [3.21.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.24) Hari alone is ever the supreme, because he is complete with all attributes; / and because the entire universe is born from him in creation, therefore Hari is complete with all attributes. ### [3.21.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.25) He who is the foremost among the gods is the syllable 'A' itself, because Brahmā and the others are not all complete; / by the grace of Lakṣmī and through long-standing merit, Viriñca was born possessed of complete attributes as is fitting. ### [3.21.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.26) Viriñca is not full of attributes like Lakṣmī, nor is even Ramā full of attributes like Viṣṇu; / nor is Bhāratī complete like Vāyu, nor is even Vāruṇī complete like Śeṣa. ### [3.21.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.27) Pārvatī indeed is not complete in form like Rudra, and others also are never thus complete at all. / Having thus reflected, she performed austerities on the bank of the Yamunā. ### [3.21.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.28) At that time, O bird, I went to the bank of the Yamunā with Pārtha for hunting. / Seeing her performing austerities there, I spoke then to my friend Pārtha: ### [3.21.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.29) “O Pārtha, go quickly near the maiden, and ask: ‘Why are you performing austerities here?’” / Thus addressed, he went near her and promptly asked this reason. ### [3.21.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.30) Having returned, Phālguna related the whole account to me beside him. / Then, at an auspicious moment, I properly took her hand in marriage there. ### [3.21.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.31) By her austerities and by constantly thinking of me, I—ever most pleased—became pleased. / What pleasure could there be for me from her, O King of Birds, when I ever delight in absolute bliss? ### [3.21.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.32) The marriage was accepted by me only for the purpose of bestowing grace upon her, not for pleasure, O king of birds. / Likewise, I shall describe the beauty of Lakṣmaṇā and the reason for taking her hand, O king of birds. ### [3.21.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.33) Listen; I will tell you this secret. For a good disciple, there is no secret kept by a guru. ### [3.21.33.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21.33.p1) Thus ends the twenty-first chapter, named “Ascertainment of the Cause of the Lord’s Marriage to Kālindī,” in the Brahmakāṇḍa, the third section of the Uttarakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.21.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.21) · Pramāṇa