Shrila Prabhupada quoted many verses from the Garuda Purana. The primary characteristic of a Purana in the mode of goodness is that it exclusively glorifies Lord Vishnu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are Twelve cantos, 335 chapters and eighteen thousand verses.” Srimad-Bhagavatam is the supreme Purana, and it was compiled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His incarnation as Vyasadeva. The commentary of the Brahma-gayatri is also there and fully expanded with all Vedic knowledge. The full purport of the Mahabharata is also there. “The meaning of the Vedanta-sutra is present in SrimadBhagavatam. This verse was also used by Krishnadasa Kaviraja in his Shri Chaitanya-charitamrita (Madhya 25.145): Srila Prabhupada often quoted this famous verse from the Garuda Purana that describes the sublime position of the Shrimad-Bhagavatam. It says that the Bhagavata Purana is the foremost, the Vishnu Purana is next, and the Garuda Purana is third in importance. And six Puranas are for those who are in the modes of ignorance.” The Garuda Purana confirms that it is one of the six Puranas that are meant for persons in the mode of goodness. And six Puranas are meant for the persons who are in the modes of passion. Six Puranas are meant for the person who is in the modes of goodness.

To reclaim all these conditioned souls in different varieties of life, there are presentation of the Puranas. Men are conducted in three qualities: the modes of goodness, modes of passion, and modes of ignorance. In a Bhagavad-gita lecture given in Los Angeles on February 15, 1969, Shrila Prabhupada said, “There are eighteen Puranas. The Garuda Purana is one of the eighteen principal Puranas, as stated in the Shrimad-Bhagavatam (SB 12.7.23-24): The eighteen major Puranas are the Brahma, Padma, Visnu, Siva, Liriga, Garuda, Narada, Bhagavata, Agni, Skanda, Bhavisya, Brahma-vaivarta, Markandeya, Vamana, Varaha, Matsya, Kurma and Brahmanda Puranas.

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