Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 65
Rādhā-sambaddha-mantra-vyākhyā
Rādhā-Related Mantras Explained
युक्तोनांभश्च भूयुक्तं वाश्चरेण समन्वितम् । ग्रासो धरायुतः पश्चाद्रसः शक्त्या समन्वितः ॥ ६५ ॥
yuktonāṃbhaśca bhūyuktaṃ vāścareṇa samanvitam | grāso dharāyutaḥ paścādrasaḥ śaktyā samanvitaḥ || 65 ||
ജലതത്ത്വം ഭൂതത്ത്വമായ പൃഥ്വിയോടു യഥോചിതമായി ചേർന്നു, വായു ചലനം (ചര) സഹിതമാകുമ്പോൾ, പൃഥ്വിതത്ത്വസഹിതമായ ‘ഗ്രാസം’ (ഗ്രഹണം/ഭക്ഷണം) ഉദ്ഭവിക്കുന്നു; തുടർന്ന് ശക്തിയോടുകൂടിയ ‘രസം’ പ്രത്യക്ഷമാകുന്നു।
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada in a technical/vedāṅga-like mode)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It frames embodied experience as a structured outcome of tattva-combinations: elements and their powers generate functions like ingestion and qualities like taste, reminding the seeker that sensory life is conditioned and thus to be understood and transcended through right knowledge.
By analyzing how taste and bodily functions arise from elemental power (śakti), it implicitly teaches detachment from sense-driven identity; such viveka supports steadier devotion to Vishnu beyond fluctuating sensory rasa.
A technical, quasi-śāstric mapping of element-combination to function and quality—useful for ritual theory and cosmological/physiological models often discussed alongside Vedāṅga-oriented learning in Book 1.3.