Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 73
Bharata’s Attachment and the Palanquin Teaching on ‘I’ and ‘Mine’
सर्वस्यैव हि भूपाल जंतोः सर्वत्र कारणम् । धर्माधर्मौ यतस्तस्मात्कारणं पृच्छ्यते कुतः ॥ ७३ ॥
sarvasyaiva hi bhūpāla jaṃtoḥ sarvatra kāraṇam | dharmādharmau yatastasmātkāraṇaṃ pṛcchyate kutaḥ || 73 ||
Ô roi, pour tout être incarné, en toute situation, le dharma et l’adharma sont eux-mêmes la cause. Dès lors, d’où viendrait la question d’une « cause » séparée ?
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada; addressed to the king in the verse)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: vira
FAQs
It asserts a karma-centric view of causality: an individual’s experiences arise primarily from dharma and adharma (merit and demerit), directing the seeker to examine conduct and intention rather than hunting for an external, separate cause.
By highlighting dharma as the decisive cause, it implicitly supports bhakti as a dharmic purifier: devotion disciplines action and motive, reduces adharma, and aligns one’s life toward moksha-oriented living.
The verse emphasizes dharma-adharma as the operative principle behind results, which practically connects to Kalpa (right performance of duties/rites) and Mimamsa-style reasoning about action and its fruits, even though no specific ritual or technical Vedanga rule is detailed here.