Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 50
Maṅgalācaraṇa, Naimiṣāraṇya-Sabhā, Sūta-Āhvāna, and Narada Purāṇa-Māhātmya
जनानां बकवृतीनां न ब्रूयादिदमुत्तमम् । त्यक्तकामादिदोषाणां विष्णुभक्तिरतात्मनाम् ॥ ४९ ॥
janānāṃ bakavṛtīnāṃ na brūyādidamuttamam | tyaktakāmādidoṣāṇāṃ viṣṇubhaktiratātmanām || 49 ||
This supreme teaching should not be spoken to people who wear a false, hypocritical guise. It is meant for those who have abandoned faults such as lust and whose minds are devoted to bhakti toward Viṣṇu.
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: bhakti
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
It sets the rule of adhikara (fitness): the highest devotional instruction is to be shared only with sincere seekers who have renounced inner defects like lust, not with hypocrites who merely display outward religiosity.
Bhakti is portrayed as an inner absorption in Vishnu that requires purification—giving up kama and related doṣas—so devotion is not performative but rooted in transformed character.
No specific Vedanga (like Vyakarana or Jyotisha) is taught here; the practical takeaway is the dharmic principle of confidential instruction—teach advanced upadesha only to qualified, morally disciplined recipients.