Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 16
Śokanivāraṇa: Non-brooding, Impermanence, Contentment, and Śuka’s Renunciation
व्याधितस्य चिकित्साभिस्त्रस्यतो जीवितैषिणः । आमयस्य विनाशाय शरीरमनुकृष्यते ॥ १६ ॥
vyādhitasya cikitsābhistrasyato jīvitaiṣiṇaḥ | āmayasya vināśāya śarīramanukṛṣyate || 16 ||
Với người bị bệnh hành hạ—hoảng sợ và khát khao giữ mạng sống—thân này bị đặt dưới các phép trị liệu, bị rèn ép và điều phục, nhằm diệt trừ bệnh tật.
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada in the Moksha-Dharma dialogue)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: karuna
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
It highlights how fear and the desire to live drive a person to discipline the body through treatment—implying that bodily concern is powerful, yet ultimately tied to impermanence, encouraging reflection and detachment in Moksha-Dharma.
Indirectly, it shows that people exert great effort to save the body; the same intensity can be redirected toward steadiness in devotion and remembrance of the Lord, which aims at removing the deeper ‘disease’ of bondage.
No specific Vedanga is taught in this verse; it uses a practical example of chikitsā (remedial discipline) to illustrate Moksha-Dharma reasoning about bodily attachment and the motivations behind human action.