Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 58
Rādhā-sambaddha-mantra-vyākhyā
Rādhā-Related Mantras Explained
रसः स्थिरांबु च वियत्स्वयुतं प्राण एव च । दाहोऽग्रियुग्रसस्तस्मास्थिराक्ष्मा दाहसंयुता । सचरः स्याज्जवीपूर्वविद्या तर्तीयतः क्रमात् ॥ ५८ ॥
rasaḥ sthirāṃbu ca viyatsvayutaṃ prāṇa eva ca | dāho'griyugrasastasmāsthirākṣmā dāhasaṃyutā | sacaraḥ syājjavīpūrvavidyā tartīyataḥ kramāt || 58 ||
Beschrieben werden Rasa (Essenz), die beständigen Wasser und der Raum zusammen mit prāṇa (Lebenshauch); dann kommt „dāha“ — das Feuer, der Verschlinger. Daraus entstehen feste Gestalten, begleitet von Hitze. So schreitet, mit der Bewegung der Lebewesen, die Folge im dritten Abschnitt gemäß der Ordnung fort, die die frühere Lehre übermittelte.
Narada (teaching in a Vedanga/technical context; traditional dialogue frame with Sanatkumara lineage)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It frames a subtle-to-gross progression—essence (rasa), waters, space, prāṇa, and fire/heat—showing how life and form arise through ordered principles, a key contemplative model used in Vedic technical disciplines.
Indirectly: by presenting creation as an ordered, intelligible unfolding sustained by prāṇa and agni, it supports the bhakta’s vision of a governed cosmos—encouraging reverence for the divine order that bhakti ultimately personalizes as devotion to Vishnu.
A technical sequencing of principles (elements/prāṇa/heat) used as background theory in Vedanga-style reasoning—especially helpful for Jyotiṣa and ritual thought where elemental qualities and prāṇa are correlated with timing, bodily discipline, and sacrificial fire (agni).