{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/gpu/gpu17.htm","path":"hin/gpu/gpu17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/gpu/gpu17.htm","text":"The Garuda Purana, by Ernest Wood and S.V. Subrahmanyam, [1911]\n1-2. Garu\u1e0da said: The righteous man having enjoyed heaven, is born in a stainless family. Now tell me how he is produced in the womb of the mother.\nI wish to hear what, in this body, the man of good deeds thinks. Tell me, O Treasure-house of Compassion!\n3-4. The Blessed. Lord said: You have asked well, O T\u0101rk\u1e63ya. I will tell you that supreme secret, even by knowing which one becomes all-knowing.\nI will tell you the real nature of that body which possesses the attributes of the universal Egg,--the object of concentration of Yogins.\n5-6. Hear how the Yogins perform the meditation upon the six chakras 1 within it, and likewise meditation upon the nature of Chit and \u0100nanda in the Brahmarandhra,\nAnd how he of good deeds is born in the house of the pure and prosperous. I will tell you also about the rites and observances of the parents.\n7-10. After menstruation the women should be avoided for four days. Their face should not be seen during that time, lest sin should arise in the body.\nHaving bathed, and washed her clothes, a woman becomes pure on the fourth day. From the seventh day she becomes fit to perform the rites of worship to the forefathers and the Shining Ones.\nDuring the seven days the embryo continues impure. Here the sons gradually enter during the eighth day.\nSons are born on even nights, daughters on odd. Keeping away from, her during the first seven days, on even nights he enters.\n11-12. Sixteen nights are declared to be common for women. 1 On the fourteenth night the seed remains there certainly.\nThen is produced the righteous son, a store of auspicious qualities. That night is never obtained by vulgar people.\n13. On the firth. day women should eat sweet foods. Pungent, acid, astringent and hot things should be entirely avoided.\n14-18. The husband, like a husbandman, having sown the seed of great potentiality in the field which is productive of grain, reaps a good harvest.\nThe man, having chewed betel, 1 put on flowers and sandal-paste, and clean clothes, and with righteous thoughts in his mind, should unite with his good wife.\nAccording to the thoughts in his mind at the time of union will be the nature of the one who enters the womb.\nThe intelligence joined with the seed remains always in the sperm, When desire, thought and sperm become united,\nThen the man obtains semen, and in the interior of the womb the formation of ovum takes place, by the union of sperm and germ [cells]\n19. The good son who enters the womb is the giver of the highest bliss. For him there are numerous rites, such as the Punsavana. 2\n20-23. The meritorious soul obtains birth in a high family. At the time of his birth Br\u0101hmi\u1e47s receive much wealth.\nHe grows up in his parents' house, endowed with learning and modesty, becoming skilful in all the sciences, by association with the wise.\nIn his youth he is divinely handsome, wealthy and benevolent, arising as the result of great merit, austerities, and pilgrimages to sacred waters, formerly done.\nThen he constantly strives to discriminate between the self and the not-self. By adhy\u0101ropa 1 and apav\u0101da 2 he meditates upon Br\u0101hma\u1e47.\n24. For the understanding of the dissociation of Br\u0101hma\u1e47 from that with which he is associated, I will tell you the attributes of earth and the others, which are of the genus \"Not-self.\"\n25-30. Earth, water, fire, air and ether--these are called the stable elements. This body is made up of the five elements.\nSkin, bones, nerves, hair and flesh,--these are the five attributes of earth, O Lord of birds, declared to you by me.\nSaliva, urine, sperm, marrow, and blood, the fifth,--are said to be the five attributes of water. Now hear those of fire:--\nHunger, thirst, sloth, sleep and sexual desire--are called the five attributes of fire by Yogins everywhere, O T\u0101rk\u1e63ya.\nBending, running, jumping, stretching and moving,--these are declared the five attributes of air.\nSpeech, thought, vacuity, delusion and mental instability--the five attributes of ether, may be understood by you with effort.\n31. Mind, reason, individualisation, analysis--these four are called the Internal Means, and have the flavour of past karma.\n32. Ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose are the sense organs. The organs of speech, hands, feet, the organs of generation and of excretion are the organs of action.\n33. Dik, V\u0101ta, Arka, Prachetas, the two A\u015bvins, Vahni, Indra, Upeudra, Mitra, are declared to be the duties of the organs of sense and action,\n34-35. I\u1e0d\u0101, 1 Pingal\u0101, 2 Su\u1e63umn\u0101, 3 thirdly, and also G\u0101ndh\u0101r\u012b, 4 Gajajihva, 5 P\u016b\u1e63\u0101, 6 Ya\u015basvin\u012b, 7\nAlambu\u1e63a, 8 and Kuh\u016b, 9 and Sa\u1e45khin\u012b, 10 the tenth as well--are situated in the interior of the body, and are the ten principal Na\u1e0d\u012bs. 11\n36-39. Pr\u0101\u1e47a, Ap\u0101na, Sam\u0101na, Ud\u0101na, and Vy\u0101na also,--N\u0101ga, K\u016brma, K\u1e5bikala, Devadatta and Dhana\u00f1jaya 12:--\nIn the heart, Pr\u0101\u1e47a; in the anus, Ap\u0101na; in the navel, Sam\u0101na; in the region of the throat, Ud\u0101na; and distributed all over the body, Vy\u0101na:\nVomiting is called N\u0101ga; opening and shutting the eyes is known as K\u016brma; the cause of hunger is to be known as K\u1e5bikala; Yawning, Devadatta;\nDhana\u00f1jaya, all-pervading, does not leave even the corpse, and carries all over the body the nourishment which is obtained by eating mouthfuls of food.\n40-43. The air called Vy\u0101na carries the essential part in all the N\u0101\u1e0d\u012bs. Food, as soon as eaten, is split into two by that air.\nHaving entered near the anus it separates the solid and liquid portions, placing the water over the fire, and the solid over the water,\nThe Pr\u0101na standing under the fire, inflames it slowly. The fire, inflamed by the air, separates the substance from the waste.\nThe Vy\u0101na air makes the essence go all over, and the waste, forced through the twelve gateways, is ejected from the body.\n44. Ears, eyes, nostrils, tongue, teeth, navel, nails, anus, generative organs, head, trunk, hair--are called unclean places.\n45. Thus the airs, having derived their power from the self, perform their own functions, affecting people, just as does the rising of the sun.\n46. Now hear, O Bird, the two-fold nature of the body of man. One is Vy\u0101vah\u0101rika, and the second P\u0101ram\u0101rthika.\n47-52. On the Vy\u0101vah\u0101rika there are thirty-five millions of hairs of the body, seven hundred thousands of hairs of the head, it is said, and twenty nails;\nThere are said to be thirty-two teeth usually, O son of Vinat\u0101; the flesh is said to be one thousand pal\u0101s 1 and blood one hundred pal\u0101s;\nFat is ten pal\u0101s; skin is seven pal\u0101s, marrow is twelve pal\u0101s; the \"great blood\" is three palas;\nSeed is known to be two ku\u1e0davas; ovum one ku\u1e0dava; and bones in the body are said to be three hundred and sixty;\nThe n\u0101\u1e0d\u012bs, both dense and subtle, number tens of million; bile is fifty pal\u0101s; phlegm is half of that;\nThe waste materials are not measurable, as they are constantly changing. The body which possesses these attributes is Vy\u0101vah\u0101rika. 2\n53. All the worlds, mountains, continents, oceans, suns and planets are in the P\u0101ram\u0101rthika 3 body.\n54. In the P\u0101ram\u0101rthika body, there are six chakras in which are said to be located the attributes of the egg of Brahm\u0101.\n55. I will tell you about these, which are the objects of meditation of Yogins. By pondering upon them one becomes the enjoyer of the nature of Vair\u0101ja. 4\n56-59. Below the feet is called Atala; above the feet, Vitala; at the knees know it as Sutala; at the thighs Mah\u0101tala;\nAt the hips, Tal\u0101tala; at the secret part Ras\u0101tala; at the loins P\u0101t\u0101la; these are declared to be the seven worlds:\nBh\u016bloka, at the middle of the navel; above it the Bhuvarloka; in the heart, Svarloka; at the throat it should be known as Maharloka;\nJanaloka, in the region of the mouth; Tapolaka, at the forehead; Satyaloka in the Brahmarandhra--these are the fourteen worlds.\n60-61. Meru is situated in the triangle 1; Mandara is in the inverted triangle; Kail\u0101\u015ba is in the right triangle; Him\u0101chala, in the left triangle.\nNi\u1e63ada is in the upper lines Gandham\u0101dana in the lines on the right; Rama\u1e47a in the lines on the left;--the seven great mountains.\n62-65. Jambu is in the place of the bones; S\u0101ka is situated in the marrow; the Ku\u015ba continent is situated in the flesh; the Krauncha continent in the nerves;\nThe \u015a\u0101lmal\u012b continent is in the skin; Gomeda, in the mass of hair; Pu\u1e63kara, in the place of the nails;--and next the oceans:\nIn the urine the K\u1e63\u0101ra ocean; the K\u1e63\u012bra ocean in the milk; the Sura ocean is situated in the phlegm; in the marrow, the Gh\u1e5bita ocean;\nThe Rasa ocean in the juices; the Dadhi ocean is known to be in the ova; the Sw\u0101du ocean in the region of the soft palate; you should know son of Vinat\u0101.\n66-68. The sun is situated in the N\u0101da chakra; the moon is in the Bindu chakra; Mars is situated, it should be known, in the eyes; Mercury is in the heart, it is declared;\nJupiter is in the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u-sth\u0101na, it should be known; Venus is situated in the seed; Saturn is in the navel; R\u0101hu, in the face, it is declared;\nKetu is situated in the lungs;--in the body is the circle of the planets. In all these forms one should meditate on his own body.\n69-71. Always at dawn, sitting steadily cross-legged, one should meditate upon the six chakras, in the order of the Ajap\u0101. 1\nThe G\u0101yatr\u012b called Ajap\u0101 is the giver of liberation to the sages; by merely thinking upon it one is released from all sin.\nListen, O T\u0101rk\u1e63ya, and I will explain the best method of Ajap\u0101, by doing which the individual always gives up his separateness.\n72-73. M\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra, Sw\u0101dhishth\u0101na, Ma\u1e47ip\u016braka, An\u0101hatam, Vi\u015buddhi and also \u0100j\u00f1\u0101,--are spoken of as the six chakras.\nOne should meditate in order upon the chakras, at the root of the generative organ; in the region of the pelvis; in the navel; in the heart; in the throat; between the eyebrows; at the top of the head.\n74-75. The m\u016bl\u0101dh\u0101ra is four-petalled and resplendent, with letters from va to sa; the Sv\u0101dhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101na resembles the sun, is six-petalled, and has the letters from ba to la; the Ma\u1e47ip\u016braka is red in colour and has ten petals, from da to pha; the An\u0101hata is twelve-petalled, from ka to t\u1e25a, and is golden-coloured;\nThe vi\u015buddhi lotus is sixteen-petalled, with the vowels, and has the light of the moon; the M\u0101tra 1 lotus is two-petalled, has the letters ha and k\u1e63a, and is red in colour; the one at the top of the head is the most resplendent, this lotus has a thousand petals, and is the seat of truth and bliss, ever auspicious, light-possessing and eternal.\n76. One should meditate, in order, in the chakras, on Ga\u1e47e\u1e63a, on Vidhi, 2 on Vi\u1e63h\u1e47u, on \u015aiva, on J\u012bva, on Guru, and on Parambrahma\u1e47, all-pervading.\n17-80. It is said by the wise that the subtle movements of the breath in one day and night number twenty-one thousand six hundred.\nIt goes out with the sound of \"ha,\" and enters again with the sound of \"sa.\" The individual is, indeed, always repeating the mantra. \"Ha\u1e41sa, ha\u1e41sa,\"--\nSix hundred for Ga\u1e47e\u015ba; six thousand for Vedhas 1; six thousand for Hari 2; six thousand for Hara. 3\nA thousand for the J\u012bv\u0101tman; a thousand for Guru; a thousand or the Chid\u0101tman;--thus one should understand the respective numbers of the repetitions.\n81-82. Aru\u1e47a and other sages, who know the succession of Teachers, meditate upon the deities presiding over the chakras, who are rays of Brahma\u1e47.\nThe sages, \u015auka and ethers, teach it to their pupils; therefore a wise man, after meditating upon the path of the Great Ones, should always meditate thus.\n83. Having worshipped mentally in all the chakras, with unwavering mind, he should repeat the Ajap\u0101-g\u0101yatr\u012b according to the instructions of the Teacher.\n84-88. He should meditate in the Ran\u1e0dhra, with the thousand-petalled lotus inverted, upon the Blessed Teacher within the Ha\u1e41sa, whose lotus-hand frees from fear.\nHe should regard his body as being washed in the flow of nectar from His feet. Having worshipped in the five-fold way he should prostrate, singing His praise.\nThen he should meditate on the Ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b, as moving upwards and downwards, as making a tour of the six chakras, placed in three-and-a-half coils.\nThen he should meditate on the place called Su\u1e63umn\u0101, which goes out of the Randhra; thereby he goes to the highest state of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u.\nThen he should always meditate, between four o'clock and sunrise, on my form, self-illumined, eternal and ever-blissful.\n89. He should bring his mind to a state of steadiness, not by efforts alone, but under the instruction of a teacher, without whom he falls.\n90. Having done the inward-sacrifice he should perform the outward-sacrifice. Having done the purificatory ablution, and the Sandhy\u0101, he should worship Hari and Hara.\n91-94. For those who are attached to the body facing-inward 1 does not come about. For then devotion is easier, and that gives liberation.\nTapas, and Yoga, and others, are also ways to liberation, but for those who are attached to the world of change the path by devotion to me is far superior.\nThis is the conclusion of the all-knowing Brahma and others, after having conned the Vedas and the \u015a\u0101stras for three periods.\nSacrifices and other righteous duties purify the mind. The devotion to me has a form of fruit from which the obtainer never falls away.\n95. The good man who follows this, O T\u0101rk\u1e63ya, by the union due to devotion to me, goes to eternal liberation.\n141:1 Certain centres in the etheric and higher bodies, which revolves like wheels when set in motion by meditation; hence the name chakra.\n142:1 Sixteen are favourable, but the fourteenth of them is best, if some other cause doer not render it inauspicious.\n143:1 To augment the virile power.\n143:2 A rite performed when living conception is observed.\n144:1 False ascription, and ...\n144:2 refutation, two sorts of arguments.\n145:1 The left hand n\u0101\u1e0d\u012b.\n145:2 The right hand one.\n145:3 The central one.\n145:4 This goes to the left eye.\n145:5 This goes to the right eye.\n145:6 This goes to the right ear.\n145:7 This goes to the left ear.\n145:8 This goes to the mouth.\n145:9 This goes to the li\u1e45gam.\n145:10 This gees to the m\u016bla.\n145:11 An inner nerve, channel for the vital breath.\n145:12 Various forms of the vital breath.\n147:1 Pala is a little more than an ounce (6/5 oz.)\n147:2 Individual and common physical body.\n147:3 Universal and spiritual body.\n147:4 Viraj means \"to shine.\"\n148:1 The triangle in the triangle. Meru is the sacred mountain or pakk.\n149:1 The saying of \"Ha\u1e41sa.\"\n150:1 That is, the \u0100j\u00f1\u0101.\n150:2 Brahm\u0101.\n151:1 Brahm\u0101.\n151:2 Vi\u1e63\u1e47u.\n151:3 \u015aiva.\n152:1 Their meditation is unsuccessful, because they are thinking of outer things.","title":"The Garuda Purana: Chapter XV. An Account of the Coming to Birth of People who have done Good","type":"page"}