Garuda Purana

rdf:langString Garuda Purana

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rdf:langString Ethics Little by little a man should acquire learning. Little by little a mountain should be climbed. Little by little desires should be gratified.

rdf:langString Moksha is Oneness The Yogins, through Yoga, realise their being with the supreme Brahman. Realization of this is called Mukti.

rdf:langString Gems: how to buy them? First the shape, color, defects or excellences of a gem should be carefully tested and then its price should be ascertained in consultation with a gem expert who has studied all the books dealing with the precious stones.

rdf:langString The Last Goodbye Go forth, go forth upon those ancient pathways, By which your former fathers have departed. Thou shalt behold god Varuna, and Yama, both kings, in funeral offerings rejoicing. Unite thou with the Fathers and with Yama, with istapurta in the highest heaven. Leaving behind all blemish homeward return, United with thine own body, full of vigor.

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rdf:langString Rigveda 10.14, Yama Suktam

rdf:langString —Garuda Purana, Purvakhanda, Chapter 109

rdf:langString —Garuda Purana, Purvakhanda, Chapter 235

rdf:langString —Garuda Purana, Purvakhanda, Chapter 68

rdf:langString The Garuda Purana is one of 18 Mahāpurāṇa texts in Hinduism. It is a part of Vaishnavism literature corpus, primarily centering around Hindu god Vishnu. Composed in Sanskrit and also available in various languages like Gujarati and English. The earliest version of the text may have been composed in the first millennium CE, but it was likely expanded and changed over a long period of time. The Garuda Purana text is known in many versions, contains 15000+ verses. Its chapters encyclopedically deal with a highly diverse collection of topics. The text contains cosmology, mythology, relationship between gods, ethics, good versus evil, various schools of Hindu philosophies, the theory of Yoga, the theory of "heaven and hell" with "karma and rebirth", ancestral rites and soteriology, rivers and geography, types of minerals and stones, testing methods for gems for their quality, listing of plants and herbs, various diseases and their symptoms, various medicines, aphrodisiacs, prophylactics, Hindu calendar and its basis, astronomy, moon, planets, astrology, architecture, building home, essential features of a Hindu temple, rites of passage, charity and gift making, economy, thrift, duties of a king, politics, state officials and their roles and how to appoint them, genre of literature, rules of grammar, and other topics. The final chapters discuss how to practice Yoga (Samkhya and Advaita types), personal development and the benefits of self-knowledge. The Padma Purana categorizes the Purana, along with itself, Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana, as a Sattva Purana (a purana which represents goodness and purity). The text, like all Mahapuranas, is attributed to sage Veda Vyāsa in the Hindu tradition.