Garuda Purana

राजानश्च प्रजाभिक्षाः शिश्नोदरपराजिताः । अव्रता वटवोऽशौचा भिक्षवश्च कुटुम्बिनः ॥ १,२२३.

Kings beg from their subjects, overcome by lust and hunger; ascetics without vows, impure, beggars who are householders.

तपस्विनो ग्रामवासाः न्यासिनो ह्यर्थलोलुपाः । ह्रस्वकाया महाहाराश्चौरास्ते साधवः स्मृताः ॥ १,२२३.

Ascetics will dwell in villages, renunciants will be greedy for wealth; those with small bodies will eat excessively, and thieves will be regarded as virtuous.

त्यक्ष्यन्ति भृत्याश्च पतिं तापसस्त्यक्ष्यति व्रतम् । शूद्राः प्रतिग्रहिष्यन्ति वैश्या व्रतपरायणः ॥ १,२२३.

Servants will abandon their master, and ascetics will abandon their vows; Shudras will accept gifts, and Vaishyas will devote themselves to religious observances.

उद्विग्नाः सन्ति च जनाः पिशाचसदृशाः प्रजाः । अन्यायभोजनेनाग्निदेवतातिथिपूजनम् ॥ १,२२३.

People will be anxious, and the populace will resemble ghouls; through unjust food, the worship of fire, deities, and guests will be performed.

करिष्यन्ति कलौ प्राप्ते न च पित्र्योदकक्रियाम् । स्त्रीपराश्च जनाः सर्वे शूद्रप्रायाश्च शौनक ॥ १,२२३.

When the age of Kali arrives, they will not perform the ancestral water rites; all people will be devoted to women, and the majority will be Shudras, O Shaunaka.

बहुप्रजाल्पभाग्याश्च भविष्यन्ति कलौ स्त्रियः । शिरः कण्डूयनपरा आज्ञां भेत्स्यन्ति भर्त्सिताः ॥ १,२२३.

In the Kali age, women will be talkative and fortunate; intent on scratching their heads, they will break commands when scolded.

विष्णुं न पूजयिष्यन्ति पाषण्डोपहता जनाः । कलेर्दोषनिधेर्विप्रा अस्ति ह्येको महागुणः ॥ १,२२३.

People deluded by heretical views will not worship Vishnu; O Brahmins, though Kali is an ocean of faults, there is indeed one great virtue.

कीर्तनादेव कृष्णस्य महाबन्धं परित्यजेत् । कृते यद्ध्यायतो विष्णुं त्रेतायां जपतः फलम् ॥ १,२२३.

By the mere chanting of Krishna's name, one abandons great bondage; the result obtained by meditating on Vishnu in the Krita age, by recitation in Treta,

द्वापरे परिचर्यायां कलौ तद्धरिकीर्तनात् । तस्माद्ध्येयो हरिर्नित्यं गेयः पूज्यश्च शौनक ॥ १,२२३.

by service in Dvapara, is obtained in Kali by singing the praises of Hari; therefore, O Shaunaka, Hari should always be meditated upon, sung, and worshipped.

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम् २२४ सूत उवाच । चतुर्युगसहस्रान्ते ब्राह्मो नैमित्तिको लयः । अनावृष्टिश्च कल्पान्ते जायते शतवार्षिकी ॥ १,२२४.

Suta said: At the end of a thousand cycles of four ages, there is a Brahmic, occasional dissolution; at the end of the kalpa, a hundred-year drought arises.

उतिष्ठन्ति तदा रौद्रा दिवि सप्त दिवाकराः । ते तु पीत्वा जलं सर्वं शोषयन्ति जगत्त्रयम् ॥ १,२२४.

Then, seven fierce suns appear in the sky; they drink up all the water and dry out the three worlds.

भूर्भुवः स्वर्महर्लोकं चराचरं जनस्तथा । विष्णुश्च रुद्रो भूत्वासौ पातालानि दहत्यधः ॥ १,२२४.

The worlds—Bhur, Bhuvar, Svar, Maharloka, Janaloka, both moving and unmoving—are thus consumed; Vishnu, having become Rudra, burns the lower regions.

विष्णुर्दहेत्त्रिलोकञ्चि मुखान्मेघान् सृजत्यलम् । वर्षन्ते वै वर्षशतं नानावर्णा महाघनाः ॥ १,२२४.

Vishnu burns the three worlds, and from his mouth he creates clouds; for a hundred years, great clouds of various colors pour down rain.

विष्णुरूपःशतं वाति वर्षाणां वायुरूर्जितः । विष्णुरे कार्णवी भूते वर्षे ब्रह्मस्वरूपधृक् । शेतेऽनन्तासने विष्णुर्नष्टे स्थावरजङ्गमे ॥ १,२२४.

The wind, in the form of Vishnu, blows for a hundred years of rain with great force; Vishnu, taking the form of Brahma, becomes the ocean, and when all that is fixed and moving is destroyed, Vishnu lies on the endless serpent.

सुप्त्वा वर्षसहस्रं स जगद्भूयोऽसृजद्धरिः । अथ प्राकृतिकं वक्ष्ये प्रलयं शृणु शौनक ॥ १,२२४.

Having slept for a thousand years, Hari again creates the world; now I will describe the natural dissolution—listen, O Shaunaka.

पूर्णे संवत्सरशते संहृत्य सकलं जगत् । ब्रह्माणं न्यस्य देहे हि मुक्तो योगबलैर्हरिः ॥ १,२२४.

When a hundred years are complete, having withdrawn the entire world, Hari, by the power of yoga, places Brahma within himself and is liberated.

ये गता ब्रह्मणः स्थानं तेऽपि यान्ति परं पदम् । अनावृष्ट्यर्कसम्पन्ना आसन्मेघास्तथा द्विज । शतं वर्षाणि वर्षद्भिर्मेधैरण्डं प्रपूर्यते ॥ १,२२४.

Those who have reached Brahma's abode also attain the supreme state; O twice-born, clouds formed from the drought and sun fill the cosmic egg with rain for a hundred years.

अन्तर्गतेन तोयेन भिन्नमण्डं जगत्पतेः । पूर्णे ब्रह्मायुषि गते भिद्यतेऽम्भसि लीयते ॥ १,२२४.

With the water inside, the cosmic egg of the Lord of the world is broken; when Brahma's lifespan is complete, it is shattered and dissolves into the water.

एवं सा जगदाधारा तोये चोर्वो प्रलीयते । आपस्तेजसि लीयन्ते तेजो वायौ प्रलीयते ॥ १,२२४.

Thus, the support of the world dissolves into the water, and water merges into fire, fire into air.

वायुः खे खञ्च भूतादौ विशते च तदा महान् । महान्प्रपद्यतेऽव्यक्तं प्रकृतिः पुरुषे परे ॥ १,२२४.

At that time, air enters space, and space into the primordial elements; the great principle merges into the unmanifest, and the unmanifest (prakriti) into the Supreme Person.

शतवर्षं हरिः शेते सृजत्यथ दिनगमे । अव्यक्तादिक्रमेणैव व्यक्तीभूतं चराचरम् ॥ १,२२४.

For a hundred divine years, Hari lies in repose, and then, at the dawn of the day, creates again; in order, from the unmanifest, all moving and unmoving beings become manifest.

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम् २२५ सूत उवाच । आध्यात्मिकादितापांस्त्रीञ्ज्ञात्व संस्राचक्रवित् । उत्पन्नज्ञानवैराग्यः प्राप्नोत्यात्यन्तिकं लयम् ॥ १,२२५.

Sūta said: One who knows the three kinds of suffering—spiritual, physical, and external—and understands the cycle of rebirth, attains supreme dissolution through knowledge and detachment.

संसारचक्रं वक्ष्येऽहमादाबुत्क्रान्तिकालतः । यद्विना पुरुषार्थो न लीनः स्यात्परमात्मनि ॥ १,२२५.

I shall now explain the cycle of rebirth, beginning from the moment of death; without this knowledge, the purpose of human life does not merge into the Supreme Self.

ऊर्ध्ववासी नरस्त्यक्त्वा देहमन्यत्प्रपद्यते । नीयतेद्वादशाहेन यमस्य यमपूरुषैः ॥ १,२२५.

A person who has lived righteously, after leaving the body, attains another form; within twelve days, he is led by Yama's messengers to Yama's realm.

तत्र यद्वान्धवास्तोयं प्रयच्छन्ति तिलैः सह । यच्च पिण्डं प्रयच्छन्ति यमलोके तदश्नुते ॥ १,२२५.

There, whatever water mixed with sesame seeds his relatives offer, and whatever rice-balls they give, he partakes of those in Yama's world.

गतश्च नरकं पापात्स्वर्गं याति स्वपुण्यतः । पापकृद्याति नरकं पुण्यकृद्याति वै दिवम् ॥ १,२२५.

One who has gone to hell because of sin attains heaven by his own merit; the doer of sin goes to hell, while the doer of virtue indeed goes to heaven.

स्वर्गाच्च नरकात्त्यक्तः स्त्रीणां गर्भे भवत्यपि । नाभिभूतञ्च तस्यैव याति बीजद्वयं हि तत् ॥ १,२२५.

Falling from heaven or hell, one is born again in the womb of a woman; the two seeds, not yet overcome, unite and enter that very being.

कललं बुद्ब्रुदमयं ततः शोणितमेव च । पेश्याः पलसमोऽण्डः स्यादङ्कुरं तत उच्यते ॥ १,२२५.

First, there is the kalala (embryonic mass), then the budbuda (bubble-like stage), then blood; the embryo becomes a lump the size of a pea, and from that, a sprout is said to arise.

उपाङ्गान्यङ्गुलीनेत्रनासास्यश्रवणानि च । आवहं याति चाङ्गेभ्यस्तत्परन्तु नखादिकम् ॥ १,२२५.

The subsidiary limbs—fingers, eyes, nose, mouth, and ears—arise from the body; from the limbs, nails and similar features develop.