Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 236
GaP 1 236.1
श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २३६ श्रीभगवानुवाच । आत्मज्ञानं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु नारद तत्त्वतः । अद्वैतं साङ्ख्यमित्याहुर्योगस्तत्रैकचित्तता
śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 236 śrībhagavānuvāca / ātmajñānaṃ pravakṣyāmi śṛṇu nārada tattvataḥ / advaitaṃ sāṅkhyamityāhuryogastatraikacittatā
The Blessed Lord said: I shall declare knowledge of the self; hear it truly, Nārada. Non-duality they call Sāṅkhya; yoga is one-pointedness of mind therein.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.2
अद्वैतयोगसम्पन्नास्ते मुच्यन्ते ऽतिबन्धनात् । अतीतारब्धमागामि कर्म नश्यति बोधतः
advaitayogasampannāste mucyante 'tibandhanāt / atītārabdhamāgāmi karma naśyati bodhataḥ
Those endowed with the yoga of non-duality are freed from the great bondage; past, begun, and future karma perishes through awakening.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.3
सद्विचारकुठारेण च्छिन्नसंसारपादपः । ज्ञानवैराग्यतीर्थेन लभते वैष्णवं पदम्
sadvicārakuṭhāreṇa cchinnasaṃsārapādapaḥ / jñānavairāgyatīrthena labhate vaiṣṇavaṃ padam
He whose tree of saṃsāra has been cut down with the axe of right reflection attains the Vaiṣṇava state by the ford of knowledge and dispassion.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.4
जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तं च माया त्रिपुरमुच्यते । अत्रैवान्तर्गतं सर्वं शाश्वते नाद्वये पदे
jāgratsvapnasuṣuptaṃ ca māyā tripuramucyate / atraivāntargataṃ sarvaṃ śāśvate nādvaye pade
Waking, dream and deep sleep — this illusion (māyā) is called the triple city; in the eternal, non-dual state all this is contained right here.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.5
नामरूपक्रियाहीनं सर्वं तत्परमं पदम् । जगत्कृत्वेश्वरो ऽनन्तं स्वयमत्र प्रविष्टवान्
nāmarūpakriyāhīnaṃ sarvaṃ tatparamaṃ padam / jagatkṛtveśvaro 'nantaṃ svayamatra praviṣṭavān
That supreme state is wholly free of name, form and action; having made the world, the endless Lord himself entered into it here.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.6
वेदाहमेतं पुरुषं चिद्रूपं तमसः परम् । सो ऽहमस्मीति मोक्षाय नान्यः पन्था विमुक्तये
vedāhametaṃ puruṣaṃ cidrūpaṃ tamasaḥ param / so 'hamasmīti mokṣāya nānyaḥ panthā vimuktaye
"I know this Person, whose nature is consciousness, beyond darkness; I am he" — (such knowledge is) for liberation; there is no other path to release.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.7
श्रवणं मननं ध्यानं ज्ञानानां चैव साधनम् । यज्ञदानतपस्तीर्थवेदैर्मुक्तिर्न लभ्यते
śravaṇaṃ mananaṃ dhyānaṃ jñānānāṃ caiva sādhanam / yajñadānatapastīrthavedairmuktirna labhyate
Hearing, pondering, meditation — these indeed are the means to (the several) knowledges; by sacrifices, gifts, austerities, pilgrimages and Vedas liberation is not obtained.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.8
त्यागेन केनचिद्ध्यानपूजाकर्मादिभिर्यथा । द्विविधं वेदवचनं कुरु कर्म त्यजेति च
tyāgena kenaciddhyānapūjākarmādibhiryathā / dvividhaṃ vedavacanaṃ kuru karma tyajeti ca
(Nor) by any renunciation, as (not) by meditation, worship, rites and the rest; the Vedic word is twofold: "perform action" and "abandon (it)."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.9
यज्ञादयो विमुक्तानां निष्कामानां विमुक्तये । अन्तः करणशुद्ध्यर्थमूचुरेवात्र केचन
yajñādayo vimuktānāṃ niṣkāmānāṃ vimuktaye / antaḥ karaṇaśuddhyarthamūcurevātra kecana
Sacrifices and the rest are for the release of the released, of those free from desire; some here have said (they are) precisely for the purification of the inner organ.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.10
एकेन जन्मना ज्ञानन्मुक्तिर्न द्वैतभाविनाम् । योगभ्रष्टाः कुयोगाश्च विप्रा योगिकुलोद्भवाः
ekena janmanā jñānanmuktirna dvaitabhāvinām / yogabhraṣṭāḥ kuyogāśca viprā yogikulodbhavāḥ
By one birth liberation (comes) from knowledge, but not for those who dwell in duality; those fallen from yoga and of faulty yoga (are born as) brahmins arising in families of yogins.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.11
कर्मणा बध्यते जन्तुर्ज्ञानान्मुक्तो भवाद्भवेत् । आत्मज्ञानन्त्वाश्रयेद्वै अज्ञानं यदतो ऽन्यथा
karmaṇā badhyate janturjñānānmukto bhavādbhavet / ātmajñānantvāśrayedvai ajñānaṃ yadato 'nyathā
A creature is bound by action; from knowledge he becomes freed from existence. One should therefore take refuge in knowledge of the self; whatever is otherwise than this is ignorance.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.12
यदा सर्वे विमुच्यन्ते कामा येस्यहृदि स्थिताः । तदामृतत्वमाप्नोति जीवन्नेव न संशयः
yadā sarve vimucyante kāmā yesyahṛdi sthitāḥ / tadāmṛtatvamāpnoti jīvanneva na saṃśayaḥ
When all the desires that abide in his heart are let go, then he attains immortality even while living — there is no doubt.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.13
व्यापकत्वात्कथं याति को याति क्व स याति च । अनन्तत्वान्नदेशो ऽस्ति अमूर्तित्वाद्गतिः कुतः
vyāpakatvātkathaṃ yāti ko yāti kva sa yāti ca / anantatvānnadeśo 'sti amūrtitvādgatiḥ kutaḥ
Since (it) is all-pervading, how does it go? Who goes, and where does he go? Since (it) is endless there is no place; since (it) is formless, whence motion?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.14
अद्वयत्वान्न को ऽप्यस्ति बोधत्वाज्जडता कुतः । एकोद्दिष्टं यदन्यस्य मतिवाग्गतिसंस्थिति (म्)
advayatvānna ko 'pyasti bodhatvājjaḍatā kutaḥ / ekoddiṣṭaṃ yadanyasya mativāggatisaṃsthiti (m)
Since (it) is non-dual, no one else exists; since (it) is awareness, whence inertness? What is taught of the One — thought, speech, motion, standing — belongs to another.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.15
कथमाकाशकल्पस्य गतिरागतिसंस्थिति । जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तं च मायया परिकल्पितम्
kathamākāśakalpasya gatirāgatisaṃsthiti / jāgratsvapnasuṣuptaṃ ca māyayā parikalpitam
How can there be going, coming and standing still for one who is like space? And waking, dream and deep sleep are fabricated by illusion.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.16
वस्तु तैजसकं प्राज्ञे यत्तु पुण्यमखण्डकम् । यथा ते प्रियात्मा नः सर्वेषां च तथा प्रियः
vastu taijasakaṃ prājñe yattu puṇyamakhaṇḍakam / yathā te priyātmā naḥ sarveṣāṃ ca tathā priyaḥ
The Taijasa reality (rests) in Prājña, which is meritorious and undivided; as your own self is dear to you, so is it dear to us all.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.17
बोधमार्गे यथा चित्तं सर्वेषां च तथा मते । सर्वदा सर्वभूतानां सर्वस्य च महामुने
bodhamārge yathā cittaṃ sarveṣāṃ ca tathā mate / sarvadā sarvabhūtānāṃ sarvasya ca mahāmune
As the mind (is) on the path of awakening, so it is in the view of all; always, for all beings and for everyone, O great sage.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.18
नाहमत्रात्मविज्ञानं तस्मात्पूर्णं निरन्तरम् । जाग्रत्स्वप्नं तथा वृत्तं सौषुप्तसुखमेव च
nāhamatrātmavijñānaṃ tasmātpūrṇaṃ nirantaram / jāgratsvapnaṃ tathā vṛttaṃ sauṣuptasukhameva ca
"I am not" — here (there is) knowledge of the self; therefore (it is) full and unbroken: waking, dream, so too what has occurred, and the very bliss of deep sleep.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.19
स्मरणं विस्मृतार्थस्य नास्ति चेत्कस्य जायते । सत्यमस्तु तथा वाणु अशरीरं परं तथा
smaraṇaṃ vismṛtārthasya nāsti cetkasya jāyate / satyamastu tathā vāṇu aśarīraṃ paraṃ tathā
If there is no recollection of a forgotten object, to whom does (recollection) arise? Let it be true, or even a mote; so too the bodiless Supreme.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.20
नास्ति चेत्सुखदुः खानां सर्वेषां वेदनं कथम् । सदा सर्वत्र सर्वज्ञः सर्वस्य हृदये न येत्
nāsti cetsukhaduḥ khānāṃ sarveṣāṃ vedanaṃ katham / sadā sarvatra sarvajñaḥ sarvasya hṛdaye na yet
If (it) does not exist, how is there the experiencing of all pleasures and pains? Always and everywhere the all-knowing one dwells in the heart of all.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.21
साक्षिभूतः समाश्रित्य को जानाति विचेष्टितम् । सत्य ज्ञानानन्त भिन्नं स्यान्नसत्यं ज्ञानतः पृथक्
sākṣibhūtaḥ samāśritya ko jānāti viceṣṭitam / satya jñānānanta bhinnaṃ syānnasatyaṃ jñānataḥ pṛthak
Who, having taken his stand as the witness, knows the (whole) play of action? O truth, knowledge, infinity — (it) would be distinct; truth is not separate from knowledge.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.22
नानन्त्यात्पृथगानन्दं नाप्यमानन्दतः पृथक् । त्वमेव परमं ब्रह्म सत्यज्ञानादिलक्षणम्
nānantyātpṛthagānandaṃ nāpyamānandataḥ pṛthak / tvameva paramaṃ brahma satyajñānādilakṣaṇam
Bliss is not separate from infinity, nor is infinity separate from bliss; you alone are the supreme Brahman, marked by truth, knowledge and the rest.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.23
अहं ब्रह्म परं तत्त्वं ज्ञात्वा त्वखिलविद्भवेत् । यथैकमृन्मये ज्ञाते सर्वमेतच्चराचरम्
ahaṃ brahma paraṃ tattvaṃ jñātvā tvakhilavidbhavet / yathaikamṛnmaye jñāte sarvametaccarācaram
"I am Brahman, the supreme reality" — having known that, one becomes knower of all; just as when a single clay thing is known (all clay things are known), so all this, moving and unmoving...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.24
यथैकहेममणिना सर्वं हेममयं भवेत् । ज्ञानं तथैवमीशेन ज्ञानिनाप्यखिलं जगत्
yathaikahemamaṇinā sarvaṃ hemamayaṃ bhavet / jñānaṃ tathaivamīśena jñānināpyakhilaṃ jagat
Just as, by a single gem of gold, everything becomes made of gold, so too, for the knower, the whole world (becomes) knowledge together with the Lord.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.25
यथान्धकारदोषेण रज्जुः सम्यङ्नदृश्यते । यथा संमोहदोषेण चात्मा सम्यङ्नदृश्यते
yathāndhakāradoṣeṇa rajjuḥ samyaṅnadṛśyate / yathā saṃmohadoṣeṇa cātmā samyaṅnadṛśyate
Just as through the defect of darkness a rope is not seen correctly, so through the defect of delusion the Self is not seen correctly.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.26
सर्पधारादिभिर्भेदरैन्यथा वस्तुकल्पनम् । व्योमादिना सरूपाद्यैरन्यथात्मा प्रकल्प्यते
sarpadhārādibhirbhedarainyathā vastukalpanam / vyomādinā sarūpādyairanyathātmā prakalpyate
As the thing is imagined otherwise through distinctions such as a snake, a streak (of water), and so on, so the Self is imagined otherwise through space and the rest, through form and the rest.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.27
प्रत्यक्षमपि यद्द्रव्यन्दुर्दर्शमिति भाषते । व्योमादिना सरूपाद्यैरन्यथा कल्पितैस्तथा
pratyakṣamapi yaddravyandurdarśamiti bhāṣate / vyomādinā sarūpādyairanyathā kalpitaistathā
Even a substance that is directly present, one calls 'hard to see'; so too (the Self is spoken of) through space and the rest, through form and the rest, which are otherwise imagined.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.28
तथा हि रज्जुरुरगः शुक्तिः कारजतं यथा । मृगतृष्णापथायाम्भस्तृप्तिं विष्णो तथा जगत्
tathā hi rajjururagaḥ śuktiḥ kārajataṃ yathā / mṛgatṛṣṇāpathāyāmbhastṛptiṃ viṣṇo tathā jagat
For so it is: as the rope (appears as) a snake, the oyster-shell as silver, and the water of a mirage-path (gives) satisfaction — so, O Viṣṇu, is the world.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.29
हाहिष्णोद्विजा कथि द्भोहमितिदृ । ग्रहनाशात्पुनर्ध्यायन्ब्राह्मण्यं मन्यते यथा
hāhiṣṇodvijā kathi dbhohamitidṛ / grahanāśātpunardhyāyanbrāhmaṇyaṃ manyate yathā
(corrupt) ... a twice-born ... 'I am so-and-so' ... and again, when the possession has ceased, reflecting, he considers himself a brahmin — as (in that case).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.30
मायाविष्टस्तथा जीवो देहोहमिति मन्यते । मायानाशात्पुनः स्वीयरूपं ब्रह्मास्मि मन्यते
māyāviṣṭastathā jīvo dehohamiti manyate / māyānāśātpunaḥ svīyarūpaṃ brahmāsmi manyate
So the living being, pervaded by illusion, thinks 'I am the body'; and again, when the illusion is destroyed, it thinks of its own form, 'I am Brahman.'
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.31
ग्रहनाशाद्यथा मान्यजनोक्रूरमवेक्षते । स्वरूपदर्शनाच्चायं माया नाशन्तया विना
grahanāśādyathā mānyajanokrūramavekṣate / svarūpadarśanāccāyaṃ māyā nāśantayā vinā
As, when the possession ceases, (the possessed man) looks upon respectable people without cruelty, so this one, through the vision of his own nature, (is freed) without the destruction of illusion itself.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.32
अनादित्वं समं द्वाभ्यां स्वरूपं तद्विलक्षणम् । एकः सत्यं तथा भागी विचारेण परं मृषा
anāditvaṃ samaṃ dvābhyāṃ svarūpaṃ tadvilakṣaṇam / ekaḥ satyaṃ tathā bhāgī vicāreṇa paraṃ mṛṣā
Beinglessness of beginning is common to both; (yet) the (Self's) own nature is distinct from that (illusion). One is real, and likewise a sharer; upon investigation, the other is false.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.33
अजोपि हि सकृत्प्रेत्य संभवाम्यात्ममायया । मायेच्छया द्विधा स स्यात्पतिः पत्नी सुखं जगत्
ajopi hi sakṛtpretya saṃbhavāmyātmamāyayā / māyecchayā dvidhā sa syātpatiḥ patnī sukhaṃ jagat
Though unborn, indeed, having once departed I come into being by my own illusion; by the will of illusion he becomes twofold — husband, wife, pleasure, world.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.34
अष्टाविंशतिभेदैस्तु त्रैगुण्यं विद्यते पृथक् । चतुरशीतिर्लक्ष्यन्ते नरनार्याकृतीनि च
aṣṭāviṃśatibhedaistu traiguṇyaṃ vidyate pṛthak / caturaśītirlakṣyante naranāryākṛtīni ca
But by twenty-eight divisions the threefold (nature of the) qualities exists separately; and eighty-four (kinds of) forms of men and women are observed.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.35
एषुविश्वं प्रभवति खण्डजं मायया यथा । आदावन्ते च सन्त्येते नामरूपक्रियादयः
eṣuviśvaṃ prabhavati khaṇḍajaṃ māyayā yathā / ādāvante ca santyete nāmarūpakriyādayaḥ
Among these the universe comes into being, born in fragments, as it were, through illusion; and at the beginning and at the end these names, forms, actions and so on exist (only so).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.36
सत्तावकल्पनं काले न सन्ति परमार्थतः । यथा रथादयः स्वप्ने सन्तो नैव च सत्यतः
sattāvakalpanaṃ kāle na santi paramārthataḥ / yathā rathādayaḥ svapne santo naiva ca satyataḥ
Their being is an imagination within time; in the highest sense they do not exist — just as chariots and the like in a dream, though present, are yet not real.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.37
तथा जाग्रदवस्थायां भूतानि न तु सन्निधौ । द्वैरूप्यं मायया याति जाग्रत्स्वप्नपदज्ञ (क्ष) योः
tathā jāgradavasthāyāṃ bhūtāni na tu sannidhau / dvairūpyaṃ māyayā yāti jāgratsvapnapadajña (kṣa) yoḥ
So too in the waking state the elements are (present), yet not (really) at hand; through illusion (the one) attains a double form in the two states of waking and dream.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.38
एवमेतत्परं ब्रह्म स्वप्नजाग्रत्पदद्वये । सुषुप्तमचलं रूपमद्वयं पदमुच्यते
evametatparaṃ brahma svapnajāgratpadadvaye / suṣuptamacalaṃ rūpamadvayaṃ padamucyate
Thus this supreme Brahman (appears) in the two states, dream and waking; the deep-sleep, unmoving form is called the non-dual state.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 236.39
मायाविचारसिद्धैव विचारेण विलीयते । आपातरहिता सापि कल्पना कालवर्तिनी
māyāvicārasiddhaiva vicāreṇa vilīyate / āpātarahitā sāpi kalpanā kālavartinī
Illusion, established only by (lack of) investigation, dissolves through investigation; that imagination too, devoid of a source, abides (only) in time.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.40
एवं तस्या (दात्या) त्मनादित्यं सिद्धमेकस्य सत्यजा । सतोस्तित्वं वसातित्वादस्तित्वासत्यतां ततः
evaṃ tasyā (dātyā) tmanādityaṃ siddhamekasya satyajā / satostitvaṃ vasātitvādastitvāsatyatāṃ tataḥ
Thus, by that Self ... it is established as the sun (?), of the One, born of truth; being's existence, and from its non-existence, the unreality of existence follows.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 236.41
ज्ञानं ततोप्यनन्तो नः पूर्णोन्तः शुकमात्मना । न नित्यभावाज्जातोहमकृत्वादमृतोस्म्यहम् । दीपवद्धृदये ज्योतिरहं ब्रह्मास्मि मुक्तये
jñānaṃ tatopyananto naḥ pūrṇontaḥ śukamātmanā / na nityabhāvājjātohamakṛtvādamṛtosmyaham / dīpavaddhṛdaye jyotirahaṃ brahmāsmi muktaye
Knowledge, and beyond that too we are endless, full, inwardly bright by the Self; being not of transient nature I am not born, and being without doing I am immortal; like a lamp there is light in the heart — I am Brahman, for liberation.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain