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 ||
Sont exposés Rasa (l’essence), les eaux stables et l’espace avec prāṇa (le souffle vital) ; puis vient « dāha » : le feu, le dévoreur. De là naissent des formes stables, accompagnées de chaleur. Ainsi, avec le mouvement des êtres, la suite progresse dans la troisième division, selon l’ordre transmis par la science ancienne.
Narada (teaching in a Vedanga/technical context; traditional dialogue frame with Sanatkumara lineage)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
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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).