Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 64
Rādhā-sambaddha-mantra-vyākhyā
Rādhā-Related Mantras Explained
प्राणो रसा चरयुतो गोत्रव्यसिमतः परम् । गोत्रादाहमरुद्युक्ता त्वंबुन्यासमतो भवेत् ॥ ६४ ॥
prāṇo rasā carayuto gotravyasimataḥ param | gotrādāhamarudyuktā tvaṃbunyāsamato bhavet || 64 ||
रस व चरयुक्त प्राण गोत्राच्या सीमांपलीकडे परम मानला आहे. गोत्रभावातून ‘अहम्’ची वृत्ती वायूंनी युक्त होऊन उठते; त्याच्यामुळे जलात ‘त्वं’-न्यास (त्वं-भू-न्यास) सिद्ध होतो।
Narada (in a technical Vedāṅga-style exposition, likely relaying an instructed schema of nyāsa/prāṇa)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
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It frames prāṇa (vital life-force) as a principle that transcends social identity (gotra), while showing how ego-identification (ahaṃ) arises with vāyu-currents and is then ritually re-ordered through nyāsa into elemental supports such as water.
Indirectly: by emphasizing inner purification—moving from lineage/ego identity to prāṇa-centered discipline—this supports devotional practice where the body-mind is prepared through nyāsa and regulated prāṇa for steadier remembrance and worship.
A technical ritual-phonetic/mantric framework (Vedāṅga-style) involving prāṇa and vāyu theory and the procedure of nyāsa (mantra installation) mapped to elemental bases like water (ambu).