Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 228

GaP 1 228.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २२८ सूतौवाच । मुक्तिहेतुमनाद्यन्तमजमव्ययमक्षयम् । यो नमेत् सर्वलोकस्य नमस्यो जायते नरः

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 228 sūtauvāca / muktihetumanādyantamajamavyayamakṣayam / yo namet sarvalokasya namasyo jāyate naraḥ

The Śrī Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 228. The Sūta said: The man who bows to him who is the cause of liberation, without beginning or end, unborn, imperishable, undecaying, becomes one to whom all the world bows.

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GaP 1 228.2

विष्णुमानन्दमद्वैतं विज्ञानं सर्वगं प्रभुम् । प्रणमामि सदा भक्त्या चेतसा हृदयालयम्

viṣṇumānandamadvaitaṃ vijñānaṃ sarvagaṃ prabhum / praṇamāmi sadā bhaktyā cetasā hṛdayālayam

Viṣṇu, who is bliss, without a second, (pure) knowing, all-pervading, the Lord, dwelling in the heart — him I bow to always with devotion, in my mind.

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GaP 1 228.3

यो ऽन्तस्तिष्ठन्नशेषस्य पश्यतीशः शुभाशुभम् । तं सर्वसाक्षिणं विष्णुं नमस्ये परमेश्वरम्

yo 'ntastiṣṭhannaśeṣasya paśyatīśaḥ śubhāśubham / taṃ sarvasākṣiṇaṃ viṣṇuṃ namasye parameśvaram

The Lord who, standing within all that is, sees (their) good and evil — that Viṣṇu, the witness of everything, the supreme Lord, I salute.

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GaP 1 228.4

शक्तेनापि नमस्कारः प्रयुक्तश्चक्रपाणये । संसारतृणवर्गाणामुद्वेजनकरो हि सः

śaktenāpi namaskāraḥ prayuktaścakrapāṇaye / saṃsāratṛṇavargāṇāmudvejanakaro hi saḥ

A salutation offered to the discus-bearer, even by one who is (merely) able, is indeed what shakes loose the masses of grass that are the rounds of rebirth.

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GaP 1 228.5

कृष्णे स्फुरज्जलधरोदरचारुकृष्णे लोकाधिकारपुरुषे परमप्रमेये । एको हि भावगुणमात्रदृढप्रणामः सद्यः श्वपाकमपि साधयितुं सशक्तः

kṛṣṇe sphurajjaladharodaracārukṛṣṇe lokādhikārapuruṣe paramaprameye / eko hi bhāvaguṇamātradṛḍhapraṇāmaḥ sadyaḥ śvapākamapi sādhayituṃ saśaktaḥ

Toward Kṛṣṇa, beautifully dark as the belly of a flashing rain-cloud, the Person who has authority over the worlds, beyond all measure — a single firm prostration, made with nothing but the quality of feeling, is at once able to bring even a dog-cooker to his goal.

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GaP 1 228.6

प्रणम्य दण्डबद्भूमौ नमस्कारेण योर्ऽचयेत् । स यां गतिमवाप्नोति न तां क्रतुशतैरपि

praṇamya daṇḍabadbhūmau namaskāreṇa yor'cayet / sa yāṃ gatimavāpnoti na tāṃ kratuśatairapi

He who, having bowed down stiff as a staff on the ground, worships with a salutation — the goal that he reaches is not (reached) even by a hundred sacrifices.

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GaP 1 228.7

दुर्गसंसारकान्ताराकूपारे ऽपि प्रधावताम् । एकः कृष्णे नमस्कारो मुक्त्या तांस्तारयिष्यति

durgasaṃsārakāntārākūpāre 'pi pradhāvatām / ekaḥ kṛṣṇe namaskāro muktyā tāṃstārayiṣyati

For those running about in the impassable wilderness of rebirth, which has no far shore, a single salutation to Kṛṣṇa will carry them across, with liberation.

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GaP 1 228.8

आसीनो वा शयानो वातिष्ठन् वा यत्र तत्र वा । नमो नारायणायेति मन्त्रैकशरणो भवेत्

āsīno vā śayāno vātiṣṭhan vā yatra tatra vā / namo nārāyaṇāyeti mantraikaśaraṇo bhavet

Whether seated or lying down or standing, wherever one may be, one should take the single mantra "Homage to Nārāyaṇa" as one's refuge.

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GaP 1 228.9

नारायणेति शब्दो ऽस्ति वागस्ति वशवर्तिनी । तथापि नरके मूढाः पतन्तीति किमद्भुतम्

nārāyaṇeti śabdo 'sti vāgasti vaśavartinī / tathāpi narake mūḍhāḥ patantīti kimadbhutam

The word "Nārāyaṇa" exists, and speech is there, subject to one's will; that even so fools fall into hell — what is astonishing in that?

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GaP 1 228.10

चतुर्मुखो वा यदि कोटिवक्त्रो भवेन्नरः कोपि विशुद्धचेताः । स वै गुणानामयुतैकदेशं वदेन्न वा देववरस्य विष्णोः

caturmukho vā yadi koṭivaktro bhavennaraḥ kopi viśuddhacetāḥ / sa vai guṇānāmayutaikadeśaṃ vadenna vā devavarasya viṣṇoḥ

Even if some man of wholly pure mind were four-faced, or ten million-faced, he still could not tell one part in ten thousand of the qualities of Viṣṇu, best of the gods.

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GaP 1 228.11

व्यासाद्या मुनयः सर्वे स्तुवन्तो मधुसूदनम् । मतिक्षयान्निवर्तन्ते न गोविन्दगुणक्षयात्

vyāsādyā munayaḥ sarve stuvanto madhusūdanam / matikṣayānnivartante na govindaguṇakṣayāt

Vyāsa and all the other sages, praising the slayer of Madhu, leave off because their wit gives out, not because Govinda's qualities give out.

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GaP 1 228.12

अवशेनापि यन्नाम्नि कीर्तिते सर्वपातकैः । पुमान् विमुच्यते सद्यः सिंहत्रस्तो मृगा यथा । बद्धः परिकरस्तेन मोक्षाय गमनं प्रति

avaśenāpi yannāmni kīrtite sarvapātakaiḥ / pumān vimucyate sadyaḥ siṃhatrasto mṛgā yathā / baddhaḥ parikarastena mokṣāya gamanaṃ prati

When His name is uttered, even by one who has no control (over himself), a man is at once freed from all his sins, as deer (flee) in terror of a lion; by that (utterance) his belt is girt for the journey to liberation.

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GaP 1 228.13

स्वप्ने ऽपि नाम स्पृशतो ऽपि पुंसः क्षयं करोत्यक्षयपापराशिम् । प्रत्यक्षतः किं पुनरत्र पुंसा प्रकीर्तिते नाम्नि जनार्दनस्य

svapne 'pi nāma spṛśato 'pi puṃsaḥ kṣayaṃ karotyakṣayapāparāśim / pratyakṣataḥ kiṃ punaratra puṃsā prakīrtite nāmni janārdanasya

Even in a dream, even of a man who merely brushes against the name, it destroys the inexhaustible heap of sins; how much more here, when the name of Janārdana is proclaimed openly by a man.

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GaP 1 228.14

नमः कृष्णाच्युतानन्तवासुदेवेत्युदीरितम् । यैर्भावभावितैर्विप्रन ते यमपुरं ययुः

namaḥ kṛṣṇācyutānantavāsudevetyudīritam / yairbhāvabhāvitairviprana te yamapuraṃ yayuḥ

By whomever, their feelings well-formed, it has been uttered — "Homage to Kṛṣṇa, Acyuta, Ananta, Vāsudeva" — those, O brahmin, did not go to the city of Yama.

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GaP 1 228.15

क्षयो भवेद्यथा वह्नेस्तमसो भास्करोदये । तथैव कलुषौघस्य नामसंकीर्तनाद्धरेः

kṣayo bhavedyathā vahnestamaso bhāskarodaye / tathaiva kaluṣaughasya nāmasaṃkīrtanāddhareḥ

As fire is destroyed (by water), and darkness at the sun's rising, just so is the flood of impurity destroyed by the chanting of Hari's name.

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GaP 1 228.16

क्व नाकपृष्ठगमनं पुनरायाति न क्षयम् । गच्छतां दूरमध्वानं कृष्णमूर्छितचेतसाम्

kva nākapṛṣṭhagamanaṃ punarāyāti na kṣayam / gacchatāṃ dūramadhvānaṃ kṛṣṇamūrchitacetasām

What is going to the vault of heaven, which comes back again and is not free of decay, compared with (the state) of those who travel the long road with minds swooning over Kṛṣṇa?

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GaP 1 228.17

पाथेयं पुण्डरीकाक्षनामसंकीर्तनं हरेः । संसारसर्पसंदष्टविषचेष्टैकभेषजम् । कृष्णेति वैष्णवं क्षान्तं जप्त्वा मुक्तो भवेन्नरः

pātheyaṃ puṇḍarīkākṣanāmasaṃkīrtanaṃ hareḥ / saṃsārasarpasaṃdaṣṭaviṣaceṣṭaikabheṣajam / kṛṣṇeti vaiṣṇavaṃ kṣāntaṃ japtvā mukto bhavennaraḥ

The provision for the journey is the chanting of the name of Hari, the lotus-eyed; it is the one medicine for the workings of the poison of one bitten by the serpent of rebirth. Having muttered the Vaiṣṇava (name) "Kṛṣṇa," which ends in kṣa, a man becomes liberated.

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GaP 1 228.18

ध्यायन् कृते जपेन्मन्त्रैस्त्रेतायां द्वापरेर्ऽचयन् । यदाप्नोति तदाप्नोति तदाप्नोति कलौ संस्मृत्यकेशवम्

dhyāyan kṛte japenmantraistretāyāṃ dvāparer'cayan / yadāpnoti tadāpnoti tadāpnoti kalau saṃsmṛtyakeśavam

What one obtains by meditating in the Kṛta age, by muttering mantras in the Tretā, by performing worship in the Dvāpara — that one obtains in the Kali age by remembering Keśava.

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GaP 1 228.19

जिह्वाग्रे वर्तते यस्य हरिरित्यक्षरद्वयम् । संसारसागरं तीर्त्वा स गच्छेद्वैष्णवं पदम्

jihvāgre vartate yasya harirityakṣaradvayam / saṃsārasāgaraṃ tīrtvā sa gacchedvaiṣṇavaṃ padam

He on the tip of whose tongue the two syllables "Ha-ri" abide — he, having crossed the ocean of rebirth, will go to the state of Viṣṇu.

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GaP 1 228.20

विज्ञातदुष्कृतिसहस्रसमावृतो ऽपिश्रेयः परन्तु परिशुद्धिम भीप्समानः । स्पप्नान्तरे न हि पुनश्च भवं स पश्येन्नारायणस्तुतिकथापरमो मनुष्यः

vijñātaduṣkṛtisahasrasamāvṛto 'piśreyaḥ parantu pariśuddhima bhīpsamānaḥ / spapnāntare na hi punaśca bhavaṃ sa paśyennārāyaṇastutikathāparamo manuṣyaḥ

Even one hemmed in by a thousand misdeeds he knows he has done, but seeking the highest good and complete purity — the man intent on the praise and recital of Nārāyaṇa will not see (further) becoming again, not even within a dream.

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