Garuda Purana

इन्द्रस्याप्यापरोक्ष्यं स्यात्तथा प्रारब्धसंक्षयः । ब्रह्मणैव सहायाति हरिं नारायणं परम् ॥ ३,१०.

For Indra too, there is direct realization and exhaustion of accumulated karma; together with Brahmā alone, he attains Hari, the supreme Nārāyaṇa.

गरुड उवाच । पञ्चाशीतिब्रह्मकल्पं समारभ्य महाप्रभो । रुद्रस्याप्यापरोक्ष्यं स्यात्तथा प्रारब्धसंक्षयः ॥ ३,१०.

Garuḍa said: Beginning from eighty-five Brahma-kalpas, O great Lord, for Rudra also, there is direct realization and exhaustion of accumulated karma.

इति श्रुतं मया ब्रह्मन्ब्रह्मणोक्तं हरेः प्रियात् । इत्थं त्वयोक्तं श्रीकृष्ण संशयोबाधते मम ॥ ३,१०.

Thus have I heard, O Brāhmaṇa, what was spoken by Brahmā, dear to Hari; but as you have said it thus, O Śrī Kṛṣṇa, doubt arises in me.

अतो मे संशयं छिन्धि यथा न स्यात्तथा पुनः । इति तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा कृष्णो वचनमब्रवीत् ॥ ३,१०.

Therefore, remove my doubt so that it may not arise again; having heard these words, Kṛṣṇa spoke as follows.

श्रीकृष्ण उवाच । ब्रह्मोक्तस्य मयोक्तस्य विवादो नास्ति सर्वथा । संदेहस्त्वज्ञदृष्टीनां ज्ञानिनां नास्ति सर्वथा ॥ ३,१०.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: There is never any contradiction between what Brahmā has said and what I have said; doubt exists only for those of ignorant vision, never for the wise.

अशीतिह्यष्टका प्रोक्ता अष्टपञ्च खगेश्वर । चत्वारिंशद्ब्रह्मकल्प एवं प्राह चतुर्मुखः ॥ ३,१०.

Eighty-eight are said to be the aṣṭakās, and eighty-five, O King of Birds; thus has the four-faced one declared, in forty Brahma-kalpas.

तत्त्वानां बहुगोप्यत्वात्तथोक्तं ब्रह्मणा पुरा । अभिप्रायस्त्वेवमेव ज्ञातव्यो नात्र संशयः ॥ ३,१०.

Because of the great secrecy of these truths, Brahmā spoke thus in former times; but the intended meaning is just as I have said—of this there is no doubt.

पञ्चा शीतिब्रह्मकल्पं ये विजानन्ति भो द्विज । तेन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति सत्यंसत्यं मयोदितम् ॥ ३,१०.

O twice-born, those who know the fifty Brahma aeons—truly, truly, I tell you—they enter into deep darkness.

विरजानन्तरं विप्रं तथा व्याकृतमंबरम् । अनन्तपारं तदपि लक्ष्मीस्तस्याभिमानिनी ॥ ३,१०.

Beyond the pure, O Brahmin, is the unmanifest ether; even that, which is endless and boundless, is Lakshmi's domain, who identifies with it.

संख्यानुगणनं नाम यस्य नास्ति महाप्रभो । न दानं जातिप्रोक्तं सर्वदा नास्ति संशयः ॥ ३,१०.

O mighty one, for whom there is no reckoning or enumeration, no giving as prescribed by caste—there is never any doubt about this.

अण्डाभिमानी ब्रह्मा तु विराडाख्यो ह्यभूत्तदा । एवं मतं स निर्माय भगवान्हरिख्ययः ॥ ३,१०.

Brahma, the lord of the egg, was then called Virat; thus it is understood—having created him, the blessed one called Hari is renowned.

विशेषात्तत्र गरुड देवैस्तत्त्वाभिमानिभिः । अधश्चोर्ध्वं तदाक्रम्य हरिस्तिष्ठति सर्वदा ॥ ३,१०.

O Garuda, by distinction, Hari always stands above and below there, along with the gods who preside over the elements.

एवं प्राकृतसर्गोक्तिर्वैकृतं शृणु पक्षिराट् ॥ ३,१०.

Thus the account of the primary creation has been told; now hear of the secondary creation, O king of birds.

गरुड उवाच । सृष्टिरुक्ता त्वया पूर्वं श्रुता सम्यङ्मया हरे ॥ ३,१०.

Garuḍa said: The creation has been described by you before, O Hari, and I have listened well.

किं नाम प्राकृतं ज्ञेयं तथा किं वैकृतं प्रभो । एतद्विस्तीर्य मे ब्रूहि श्रोतुं कौतूहलं हि मे ॥ ३,१०.

What is called the primary creation, and what is the secondary, O Lord? Please explain this to me in detail, for I am eager to hear.

श्रीकृष्ण उवाच । अव्यक्ताद्याः पृथिव्यन्ता अण्डाच्च बहिरुद्भवाः । ते सर्वे प्राकृताः प्रोक्तास्तेषां ज्ञानाद्विमच्यते ॥ ३,१०.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: All that arises from the unmanifest up to the earth, and that emerges outside the cosmic egg—these are called primary creations; they are known by their knowledge.

ब्रह्माडं विकृतं ज्ञेयं ब्रह्माण्डान्तः खगेश्वर । या सृष्टिरुच्यते सद्भिः सैवोक्ता विकृतेति च ॥ ३,१०.

The transformed cosmic egg is to be known as secondary, O lord of birds; the creation that is spoken of by the wise within the cosmic egg is indeed called secondary.

सृष्टिश्च प्रलयश्चैव संसारो भक्तिरेव च । देवता ऋषिमुख्याश्च लोका भूरादयस्तथा ॥ ३,१०.

Creation and dissolution, the cycle of existence, devotion, the chief deities and sages, and the worlds beginning with Bhū—

अनाद्यनन्तकालीनाः सर्वदैकप्रकारकाः । जगत्प्रवाहः सत्योऽयं नैव मिथ्या कथञ्चन ॥ ३,१०.

These are beginningless and endless, always of one kind; this flow of the world is real, never false in any way.

यत्त्वेतदन्यथा ब्रूयुः सर्वहन्तार एव ते । जगत्प्रवाहः सत्योऽयं हरिसेवेतिसाथा ॥ ३,१०.

But those who speak otherwise are indeed destroyers of all; this flow of the world is real, and it is for the service of Hari—thus it is said.

सत्यं सत्यं पुनः सत्यमुद्धत्य भुजमुत्यते । वेदाच्छास्त्रं परं नास्ति न देवः केशवात्परः ॥ ३,१०.

Truth, truth, again truth—I declare this raising my arm: there is no scripture higher than the Veda, nor any god higher than Keśava.

सर्वोत्कृष्टं केशवं च विहायान्यमुपासते । तेषामन्धं तमो ज्ञेयं पितॄणां गरुणामपि ॥ ३,१०.

Those who abandon Keśava, the highest of all, and worship another—their darkness is to be known as blind, even among ancestors and birds.

इदानीं शृणु पक्षीन्द्र वैकृतं सर्गमुत्तमम् । सम्यग्जानाति यो लोके स याति परमं पदम् ॥ ३,१०.

Now hear, O king of birds, the supreme secondary creation; whoever knows it rightly in the world attains the highest state.

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम् ११ श्रीकृष्ण उवाच । पुरुषाख्यो हरिः साक्षाद्भगवान्पुरुषोत्तमः । शिश्येत्वण्डोदक विष्णुर्नृणां साहस्रवत्सरम् । लक्ष्मीश्चोदकरूपेण शय्यारूपेण भोण्डजा ॥ ३,११.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: Hari, called the Puruṣa, the supreme Lord, truly lay in the waters of the cosmic egg for a thousand years of men, O offspring of Vinatā, and Lakṣmī, in the form of water, became his couch.

विद्या तरङ्गरूपेण वायुरूपेण भोण्डज ॥ ३,११.

In the form of the waves of knowledge, and in the form of wind, O offspring of Vinatā.

तमोरूपेण सैवासी न्नान्यदासीत्कथञ्चन । असीद्गर्भोदके चैव नान्यदासीत्कथञ्चन ॥ ३,११.

She alone existed in the form of darkness; there was nothing else whatsoever. In the waters of the cosmic womb, she alone was; nothing else existed at all.

लक्ष्मीस्तुष्टाव च हरिं गर्भोदे पक्षिसत्तम । लक्ष्मीधराभ्यां रूपाभ्यां प्रकृतिर्हरिणा तथा ॥ ३,११.

Lakshmi praised Hari in the cosmic waters, O best of birds. With the forms of Lakshmi and the earth, Nature likewise praised Hari.

शेत श्रुतिस्वरूपेण स्तौति गर्भोदके हरिम् । नारायण नमस्तेऽस्तु शृणु विज्ञापनं मम ॥ ३,११.

She lay there in the form of sacred sound, praising Hari in the cosmic waters: 'O Narayana, I bow to you; please hear my request.'

अजां जहि महाभाग योग्यानां मुक्तिमावह । अजा तु प्रकृतिः प्रोक्ता चापरा प्रकृतिः परा ॥ ३,११.

'O greatly fortunate one, destroy the unborn (Prakriti) and grant liberation to those who are worthy. The unborn is called Prakriti; there is also the lower and the higher Prakriti.'