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The Garuda Purana: Why should we read it ?

     The Garuda Purana is one of the spiritual mahapuran out of eighteen mahapuran present in Hinduism culture. In this puran most of the descriptions are about Vaishnavism literature. The prime deity of this text is lord Vishnu and this text is all about the conversation done between Vishnu and his vahana Garuda.      There is a hymn available about this puran that tells-           Jatha suranam prabara Janardana,        Jatha ayudhanam prabara Sudarsanam        Tatha puranesu cha Garudam cha mukhayam       Tadahurharitatwadarsane . i.e, among all deities Janardana (Vishnu) is the prime and among all weapons the Sudarshan is the prime like that among all puranas Garud puran is prime (as it is the direct words of the lord .) That's why in the preface of this puran it is written, all the men who read this text will find both their gratification and liberation because it pave...