Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 25
Mantraśodhana, Dīkṣā-krama, Guru-Pādukā, Ajapā-Haṃsa, and Ṣaṭcakra-Kuṇḍalinī Sādhana
आपूर्य कुंभं तत्रार्चेत्सोमस्य विधिवत्कलाः । धूम्रार्चिरूष्मा ज्वलिनी ज्वालिनी विस्फुलिंगिनी ॥ २५ ॥
āpūrya kuṃbhaṃ tatrārcetsomasya vidhivatkalāḥ | dhūmrārcirūṣmā jvalinī jvālinī visphuliṃginī || 25 ||
ရေအိုးကို ရေဖြင့် ဖြည့်ပြီးနောက်၊ ထိုနေရာ၌ ထုံးတမ်းအတိုင်း စောမ (ဆိုမ) ၏ ကလာများကို ပူဇော်ရမည်—ဓူမ္ရားရ္စိ (မီးခိုးရောင် အလင်း), ဥဿမာ (အပူ), ဇ္ဝလိနီ (တောက်လောင်), ဇ္ဝာလိနီ (မီးလျှံ), နှင့် ဝိစ္ဖုလိင်္ဂိနီ (မီးစက်ပွင့် ထွက်စေသော) တို့ဖြစ်သည်။
Narada (in dialogue context with Sanatkumara tradition; instructional narration)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
It frames Soma not merely as a deity but as a set of subtle ‘kalās’ (functional energies) to be invoked through precise ritual order—showing that inner forces are accessed through disciplined, rule-based worship.
Bhakti here is expressed as reverent, methodical archana: devotion becomes effective when directed to clearly named aspects of the deity (Soma’s kalās) and performed vidhivat, i.e., with care, purity, and correctness.
It highlights ritual science (Kalpa/Vedāṅga practice): the use of a kumbha, the prescribed sequence of worship, and the technical identification of deity-aspects (kalās) used in structured archana.