Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 64
Janaka’s Quest for Liberation; Pañcaśikha’s Sāṅkhya on Renunciation, Elements, Guṇas, and the Deathless State
अनात्मेति च यदृष्टं तेनाहं न ममेत्यपि । वर्तते किमधिष्टानात्प्रसक्ता दुःखसंततिः ॥ ६४ ॥
anātmeti ca yadṛṣṭaṃ tenāhaṃ na mametyapi | vartate kimadhiṣṭānātprasaktā duḥkhasaṃtatiḥ || 64 ||
یہ ‘اَناتما’ ہے—یہ دیکھ لینے کے بعد بھی، اور ‘نہ میں، نہ میرا’ کہہ لینے کے بعد بھی، دُکھ کی مسلسل کڑی کس سہارے پر قائم رہتی ہے؟
Narada (inquiring in a Moksha-Dharma dialogue, traditionally addressed to Sanatkumara/Sanaka brothers)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: karuna
FAQs
It highlights a subtle problem in liberation: mere intellectual recognition of “not-self” and verbal negation (“not I, not mine”) may not uproot the deeper substratum (adhiṣṭhāna) that sustains ego-habits and thus the continuity of suffering.
Indirectly, it suggests that freedom requires more than conceptual negation—one must shift the heart’s clinging from ‘I/mine’ to refuge in the Supreme (often taught in the Narada Purana as Vishnu-bhakti), so the underlying support of attachment is replaced by surrender and remembrance.
No specific Vedanga technique is taught in this verse; the practical takeaway is sādhana-oriented self-inquiry—examining the adhiṣṭhāna of ‘I’-sense—rather than ritual, grammar, or astrology.