Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 58
Rādhā-sambaddha-mantra-vyākhyā
Rādhā-Related Mantras Explained
रसः स्थिरांबु च वियत्स्वयुतं प्राण एव च । दाहोऽग्रियुग्रसस्तस्मास्थिराक्ष्मा दाहसंयुता । सचरः स्याज्जवीपूर्वविद्या तर्तीयतः क्रमात् ॥ ५८ ॥
rasaḥ sthirāṃbu ca viyatsvayutaṃ prāṇa eva ca | dāho'griyugrasastasmāsthirākṣmā dāhasaṃyutā | sacaraḥ syājjavīpūrvavidyā tartīyataḥ kramāt || 58 ||
رَس، ثابت پانی اور آکاش—یہ سب پران کے ساتھ بیان کیے گئے ہیں؛ پھر دَاہ آتا ہے—اَگنی، جو سب کو نگلنے والا ہے۔ اسی سے حرارت کے ساتھ ثابت صورتیں پیدا ہوتی ہیں۔ یوں سَچَر سمیت یہ ترتیب تیسرے حصے میں، پُروَ وِدیا کے بتائے ہوئے قاعدے کے مطابق، جاری رہتی ہے۔
Narada (teaching in a Vedanga/technical context; traditional dialogue frame with Sanatkumara lineage)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It frames a subtle-to-gross progression—essence (rasa), waters, space, prāṇa, and fire/heat—showing how life and form arise through ordered principles, a key contemplative model used in Vedic technical disciplines.
Indirectly: by presenting creation as an ordered, intelligible unfolding sustained by prāṇa and agni, it supports the bhakta’s vision of a governed cosmos—encouraging reverence for the divine order that bhakti ultimately personalizes as devotion to Vishnu.
A technical sequencing of principles (elements/prāṇa/heat) used as background theory in Vedanga-style reasoning—especially helpful for Jyotiṣa and ritual thought where elemental qualities and prāṇa are correlated with timing, bodily discipline, and sacrificial fire (agni).