Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 80
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महाभूतात्मकं सर्वमस्माद्यत्परमाणुमत् । इंद्रियाणि च पंचैव तमः सत्त्वं रजस्तथा ॥ ८० ॥
mahābhūtātmakaṃ sarvamasmādyatparamāṇumat | iṃdriyāṇi ca paṃcaiva tamaḥ sattvaṃ rajastathā || 80 ||
All this is made of the great elements (mahābhūtas), from the gross level down to the atomic. And there are also the five sense-faculties, as well as tamas, sattva, and rajas.
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada in the Moksha Dharma discourse)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: none
FAQs
It frames embodied experience as a composite of elements, senses, and the three gunas—so liberation requires discerning these constituents and no longer identifying the Self with them.
By identifying the gunas and indriyas as the machinery of worldly experience, it implies that bhakti is strengthened by regulating the senses and rising toward sattva, making the mind fit for steady Vishnu-centered remembrance.
No specific Vedanga (like Vyakarana or Jyotisha) is taught in this verse; the practical takeaway is tattva-viveka—classifying experience into elements, senses, and gunas for disciplined self-inquiry and practice.
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