Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 22
Saṃsāra-duḥkha: Karmic Descent, Garbhavāsa, Life’s Anxieties, Death, and the Call to Jñāna-Bhakti
तेनातिक्लेशेन योनियंत्रपीडितो गर्भान्निष्कांतो निःसंज्ञतां याति ॥ २२ ॥
tenātikleśena yoniyaṃtrapīḍito garbhānniṣkāṃto niḥsaṃjñatāṃ yāti || 22 ||
وبسبب ذلك الألم الشديد—إذ يُسحق في «آلة» الرحم الضيّقة—فإنه حين يخرج من الرحم يقع في حالٍ من فقدان الوعي.
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada in a didactic dialogue on embodied existence)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: karuna
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
It highlights the inherent suffering of embodied birth, encouraging dispassion (vairagya) and the search for liberation (moksha) beyond the cycle of repeated embodiment.
By showing the helplessness and pain of worldly embodiment, the verse implicitly supports taking refuge in the Divine as the stable means to transcend samsara—often framed in the Purana as devotion and surrender leading toward liberation.
No specific Vedanga (like Vyakarana, Shiksha, or Jyotisha) is directly taught in this verse; it functions primarily as a moksha-oriented reflection on samsaric suffering rather than a technical instruction.