Garuda Purana — Uttara Khanda (Pretakalpa) — Chapter 11

GaP 2 11.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- ११ गरुड उवाच । मानुषत्वं लभेत्कस्मान्मृत्युमाप्नोति तत्कथम् । म्रियते कः सुरश्रेष्ठ देहमाश्रित्य कुत्रचित्

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 11 garuḍa uvāca / mānuṣatvaṃ labhetkasmānmṛtyumāpnoti tatkatham / mriyate kaḥ suraśreṣṭha dehamāśritya kutracit

The Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 12 [11]. Garuḍa said: From what does one obtain the human state? How does one meet death? Who is it that dies, O best of gods, having taken to a body somewhere?

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GaP 2 11.2

इन्द्रियाणि कुतो यान्ति ह्यस्पृश्यः स कथं भवेत् । क्व कर्माणि कृतानीह कथं भुङ्क्ते प्रसर्पति

indriyāṇi kuto yānti hyaspṛśyaḥ sa kathaṃ bhavet / kva karmāṇi kṛtānīha kathaṃ bhuṅkte prasarpati

Where do the senses go? How does he become untouchable? Where are the deeds done here (deposited)? How does he experience (them) and move on?

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GaP 2 11.3

प्रसादं कुरु मे मोहं छेत्तुमर्हस्यशेषतः । काश्यपो ऽहं सुरश्रेष्ठ विनतागर्भ संभवः । यमलोकं कथं यान्ति विष्णुलोकं च मानवाः

prasādaṃ kuru me mohaṃ chettumarhasyaśeṣataḥ / kāśyapo 'haṃ suraśreṣṭha vinatāgarbha saṃbhavaḥ / yamalokaṃ kathaṃ yānti viṣṇulokaṃ ca mānavāḥ

Show me favour; you ought to cut away my delusion entirely. I am (of the line of) Kaśyapa, O best of gods, born from Vinatā's womb. How do men go to Yama's world, and (how) to Viṣṇu's world?

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GaP 2 11.4

श्रीकृष्ण उवाच । परस्य योषितं हृत्वा ब्रह्मस्वमपहृत्य च

śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca / parasya yoṣitaṃ hṛtvā brahmasvamapahṛtya ca

Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: Having carried off another's wife and having stolen a brahmin's property,

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GaP 2 11.5

अरण्ये निर्जने देशे जायते ब्रह्मराक्षसः । हीनजातौ प्रजायेत रत्नानामपहारकः

araṇye nirjane deśe jāyate brahmarākṣasaḥ / hīnajātau prajāyeta ratnānāmapahārakaḥ

(a man) is born as a brahma-rākṣasa in a forest, in a desolate place; the stealer of jewels is born in a low caste.

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GaP 2 11.6

यंयं काममभिध्यायेत्स तल्लिङ्गो ऽभिजायते । नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः

yaṃyaṃ kāmamabhidhyāyetsa talliṅgo 'bhijāyate / nainaṃ chindanti śastrāṇi nainaṃ dahati pāvakaḥ

Whatever desire he dwells upon, with that as its mark he is born. Weapons do not cut him, fire does not burn him,

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GaP 2 11.7

न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः । वाक् चक्षुर्नासिका कर्णौ गुदं मूत्रस्य सञ्चरः

na cainaṃ kledayantyāpo na śoṣayati mārutaḥ / vāk cakṣurnāsikā karṇau gudaṃ mūtrasya sañcaraḥ

waters do not wet him, the wind does not dry him. Speech, eye, nostrils, ears, anus, the passage of urine—

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GaP 2 11.8

अण्डजादिकजन्तूनां छिद्राण्येतानि सर्वशः । आनाभेर्मूर्धपर्यन्तमूर्ध्वच्छिद्राणि चाष्ट वै

aṇḍajādikajantūnāṃ chidrāṇyetāni sarvaśaḥ / ānābhermūrdhaparyantamūrdhvacchidrāṇi cāṣṭa vai

these are, in all cases, the openings of creatures born from eggs and the rest; and from the navel up to the head there are eight upper openings.

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GaP 2 11.9

सन्तः सुकृतिनो मर्त्या ऊर्ध्वच्छिद्रेण यान्ति वै । मृताहे वार्षिकं यावद्यथोक्तविधिना खग

santaḥ sukṛtino martyā ūrdhvacchidreṇa yānti vai / mṛtāhe vārṣikaṃ yāvadyathoktavidhinā khaga

Good men, doers of merit, go out by the upper opening. From the day of death up to the annual (rite), by the prescribed procedure, O bird,

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GaP 2 11.10

कुर्यात्सर्वाणि कर्माणि निर्धनो ऽपि हि मानवः । देहे यत्र वसेज्जन्तुस्तत्र भुङ्क्ते शुभाशुभम्

kuryātsarvāṇi karmāṇi nirdhano 'pi hi mānavaḥ / dehe yatra vasejjantustatra bhuṅkte śubhāśubham

a man should perform all the rites, even if he is without money. In whatever body the creature dwells, there it experiences good and evil.

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GaP 2 11.11

मनोवाक्कायजान्दोषांस्तथां भुङ्क्ते खगेश्वर । मृतः स सुखमाप्नोति मायापाशैर्न बध्यते । पाशबद्धो नरो यस्तु विकर्मनिरतो भवेत्

manovākkāyajāndoṣāṃstathāṃ bhuṅkte khageśvara / mṛtaḥ sa sukhamāpnoti māyāpāśairna badhyate / pāśabaddho naro yastu vikarmanirato bhavet

So too he experiences the faults born of mind, speech, and body, O lord of birds. (But) that one, when dead, attains happiness and is not bound by the snares of illusion. But the man bound by the snares becomes devoted to forbidden acts.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain