Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 42
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
इत्थं विलप्य स्वप्नान्ते प्रतिबुद्धस्तु तत्क्षणात् उत्कूजति तथारण्ये मुक्तकण्ठं पुनः पुनः
itthaṃ vilapya svapnānte pratibuddhastu tatkṣaṇāt utkūjati tathāraṇye muktakaṇṭhaṃ punaḥ punaḥ
Thus lamenting at the end of the dream, he awoke at that very moment; and then in the forest he cried out loudly, again and again, with unrestrained voice.
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FAQs
The continuity between dream-emotion and waking-grief illustrates how attachment conditions perception; the Purāṇic lesson often points toward cultivating steadiness (dhairya) and discernment (viveka).
This is episodic narration (ākhyāna) rather than cosmological creation/lineage material; it functions as a character-centered scene embedded within the Purāṇa’s larger narrative tapestry.
The forest (araṇya) can symbolize inner solitude and disorientation; the repeated loud cry signals the mind’s compulsive return to the object of desire even after ‘waking’—a motif of saṃsāric repetition.