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 ||
O prāṇa, junto com o rasa e as correntes móveis da vida, é declarado supremo, além dos limites do gotra (linhagem). Do sentido de gotra nasce a noção de “eu”, unida aos ventos (vāyu); por isso se realiza a colocação de “tu” nas águas (tvaṃ-bhu-nyāsa).
Narada (in a technical Vedāṅga-style exposition, likely relaying an instructed schema of nyāsa/prāṇa)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
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).