Sanatan AppHe who, expecting to die, leaning his home, dwells at a sacred bathing-place, or dies in a place of liberation, he verily attains liberation.
Ayodhya, Mathura, Gaya, Kas'i, Kanchi, Avantika, Dwaravati, --these seven cities should be known as the givers of liberation.
115. This eternal way of liberal in al has been described to you, O Tarksya,--hearing it with knowledge and dispassion one attains liberation.
116. Knowers of Truth attain liberation; righteous men go to heaven; sinners go to an evil condition; birds and others transmigrate.
117. Thus in sixteen chapters I have related to you the extracted essence of all the scriptures. What else do you wish to hear?
118-120. Suta said: Having thus heard, O King, these words from the mouth of the Lord, Garuda, repeatedly prostrating himself, said this, with hands folded together:--
"O Lord, O God of Gods, having heard these words of nectar I have been helped over the ocean of existence, O Lord, O. Protector!
"I stand freed from doubts. My desires have been completely fulfilled." Having said this, Garuda became silent and lost in meditation.
121. May Hari, the remembrance of whom removes evil, who gives the condition of happiness for the sacrifice of worship, and who gives liberation for supreme devotion to Him,--protect us.
Footnotes
^155:1 That is, One who knows the Self.
^156:1 Meaning that one may re-obtain these things after losing them--but not the body.
^161:1 There is supposed to be a serpent living in the ground beneath the ant-hill.
^162:1 Nyaya, Vais'esika, Sankhya, Yoga, Mimansa, Vedanta.
^165:1 The plant brought by Hanumat to restore Laksman when killed by Indrajit.
^165:2 Adwaita philosophy. Eternal inseparateness and non-duality.
^165:3 Dwaita. Separateness of the individual and universal self.
^167:1 Bija is a seed; a mantra governing a work such as an Upanisad Om.
^168:1 A holy lake in the Himalayas, also a mystical place.
^168:2 Perhaps Oudh.
^168:3 Muttra.
^168:4 Gaya.
^168:5 Benares.
^168:6 Conjeeveram.
^168:7 Ujjain.
^168:8 Dwaraka.