Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 23
योगस्वरूप-धारणा-समाधि-वर्णनम् (केशिध्वजोपदेशः)
केशिध्वज उवाच । आश्रयश्चेतसो ज्ञानिन् द्विधा तच्च स्वरूपतः । रूपं मूर्तममूर्तं च परं चापरमेव च ॥ २३ ॥
keśidhvaja uvāca | āśrayaścetaso jñānin dvidhā tacca svarūpataḥ | rūpaṃ mūrtamamūrtaṃ ca paraṃ cāparameva ca || 23 ||
కేశిధ్వజుడు అన్నాడు—ఓ జ్ఞానీ! మనస్సుకు ఆశ్రయం స్వరూపతః ద్వివిధం: రూపాత్మకం—మూర్తమూ అమూర్తమూ; అలాగే పరమూ అపరమూ.
Keśidhvaja
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: none
FAQs
It frames liberation-practice by defining the mind’s ‘support’ as twofold: one may begin with embodied form (mūrta) and progress to the unembodied (amūrta), moving from the lower (apara) to the higher (para) realization.
Bhakti can take a formed support—devotion to the Lord’s mūrta form (name, image, qualities)—and mature into a subtler, amūrta absorption where devotion becomes steady contemplation of the highest (para) reality beyond limiting notions.
No specific Vedāṅga technique is taught in this verse; it is primarily a Moksha-Dharma classification useful for meditation practice—choosing an appropriate ālambana (support) and refining it from apara (lower) to para (higher).