Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 237

GaP 1 237.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २३७ श्रीबगवानुवाच । गीतासारं प्रवक्ष्यामि अर्जुनायोदितं पुरा । अष्टाङ्गयोगयुक्तात्मा सर्ववेदान्तपारगः

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 237 śrībagavānuvāca / gītāsāraṃ pravakṣyāmi arjunāyoditaṃ purā / aṣṭāṅgayogayuktātmā sarvavedāntapāragaḥ

The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 237. The Blessed Lord said: I shall declare the essence of the Gītā, spoken formerly to Arjuna — (he who knows it becomes) one whose self is joined to the eightfold yoga, one gone to the far shore of all the Vedānta.

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GaP 1 237.2

आत्मलाभः परो नान्य अत्मदेहादिवर्जितः । हीनरूपादिदेहान्तः करणत्वादिलोचनः

ātmalābhaḥ paro nānya atmadehādivarjitaḥ / hīnarūpādidehāntaḥ karaṇatvādilocanaḥ

The attainment of the Self is the highest; there is no other. The Self is free of body and the rest; (it is not) the inferior form and so on, ending with the body, nor the eye, since that is (merely) an instrument.

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GaP 1 237.3

बिज्ञानरहितः प्राणः सुषुप्तौ हि प्रतीयते । नाहमात्मा च दुः खादिसंसारादिसमन्वयात्

bijñānarahitaḥ prāṇaḥ suṣuptau hi pratīyate / nāhamātmā ca duḥ khādisaṃsārādisamanvayāt

In deep sleep the breath is perceived as devoid of consciousness; nor am I the self (in that sense), because of (its) connection with pain and with transmigration and the rest.

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GaP 1 237.4

विधूम इव दीप्तार्चिरादीप्त (दित्य) इव दीप्तिमान् । वैद्युतो ऽग्निरिवाकाशे हृत्सङ्गे आत्मनात्मनि

vidhūma iva dīptārcirādīpta (ditya) iva dīptimān / vaidyuto 'gnirivākāśe hṛtsaṅge ātmanātmani

Like a blazing flame without smoke, shining like the kindled (sun), like fire of lightning in the sky — (so is the self) in the heart's contact, in the self by the self.

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GaP 1 237.5

श्रोत्रादीनि न पश्यन्ति स्वंस्वमात्मानमात्मना । सर्वज्ञः सर्वदर्शो च क्षेत्रज्ञस्तानि पश्यन्ति

śrotrādīni na paśyanti svaṃsvamātmānamātmanā / sarvajñaḥ sarvadarśo ca kṣetrajñastāni paśyanti

The ear and the other (senses) do not see, each its own self, by itself; but the all-knowing, the all-seeing knower of the field sees them.

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GaP 1 237.6

यदा प्रकाशते ह्यात्मा पटे दीपो ज्वलन्निव । ज्ञानमुत्पद्यते पुंसां क्षयात्पापस्य कर्मणः

yadā prakāśate hyātmā paṭe dīpo jvalanniva / jñānamutpadyate puṃsāṃ kṣayātpāpasya karmaṇaḥ

When indeed the self shines forth like a lamp burning upon a cloth, knowledge arises in men from the destruction of evil karma.

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GaP 1 237.7

यथादर्शतलप्रख्ये पश्यत्यात्मानमात्मनि । इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थांश्च महाभूतानि पञ्चकम्

yathādarśatalaprakhye paśyatyātmānamātmani / indriyāṇīndriyārthāṃśca mahābhūtāni pañcakam

As on a mirror's surface, (so) he sees the self in the self, and the senses and the objects of the senses and the five great elements.

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GaP 1 237.8

मनोबुद्धिरहङ्कारमव्यक्तं पुरुषं तथा । प्रसंख्याय परंव्याप्तो विमुक्तो बन्धवैर्भवेत्

manobuddhirahaṅkāramavyaktaṃ puruṣaṃ tathā / prasaṃkhyāya paraṃvyāpto vimukto bandhavairbhavet

And likewise mind, intellect, ego-sense, the unmanifest, and the Person — having reckoned (these) up, one becomes pervaded by the supreme, freed from bonds.

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GaP 1 237.9

इन्द्रियग्राममखिलं मनसाभिनिवेश्य च । मनश्चैवाप्यहङ्कारे प्रतिष्ठाप्य च पाण्डव

indriyagrāmamakhilaṃ manasābhiniveśya ca / manaścaivāpyahaṅkāre pratiṣṭhāpya ca pāṇḍava

And having caused the whole host of the senses to enter into the mind, and having established the mind too in the ego-sense, O Pāṇḍava,

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GaP 1 237.10

अहं कारं तथा बुद्धौ बुद्धिं च प्रकृतावपि । प्रकृतिं पुरुषे स्थाप्य पुरुषं ब्रह्मणि न्यसेत्

ahaṃ kāraṃ tathā buddhau buddhiṃ ca prakṛtāvapi / prakṛtiṃ puruṣe sthāpya puruṣaṃ brahmaṇi nyaset

and (having placed) the ego-sense in the intellect, and the intellect in Nature (prakṛti), and having placed Nature in the Person, one should deposit the Person in Brahman.

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GaP 1 237.11

अहं बह्म परं ज्योतिः प्रसंख्याय विमुच्यते । नवद्वारमिदं गेहं तिसृणां?पञ्चसाक्षिकम्

ahaṃ bahma paraṃ jyotiḥ prasaṃkhyāya vimucyate / navadvāramidaṃ gehaṃ tisṛṇāṃ?pañcasākṣikam

Having reckoned, "I am Brahman, the supreme light," one is liberated. This house of nine doors, of three (?), with five witnesses,

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GaP 1 237.12

क्षेत्रज्ञाधिष्ठितं विद्वान्यो वेद स वरः कविः । अश्वमेधसहस्राणि वाजपेयशतानि च । ज्ञानयज्ञस्य सर्वाणि कलां नार्हन्ति षोच्शीम्

kṣetrajñādhiṣṭhitaṃ vidvānyo veda sa varaḥ kaviḥ / aśvamedhasahasrāṇi vājapeyaśatāni ca / jñānayajñasya sarvāṇi kalāṃ nārhanti ṣocśīm

the wise man who knows (it) to be presided over by the knower of the field — he is the best of seers. Thousands of horse-sacrifices and hundreds of vājapeya rites — all (of them) do not equal a sixteenth part of the sacrifice of knowledge.

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