Category:Narada's Describing
Theme Analysis
The profound descriptions provided by the great sage Nārada Muni are foundational to the spiritual advancement of human society. As a fully realized devotee, his teachings are never based on mental speculation or imagination; they are entirely factual and authoritative. He expertly categorizes the progressive stages of civilized life through varṇāśrama-dharma, revealing that every social order exists ultimately to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Furthermore, his vivid allegories completely expose the living entity's encagement in the material body. Most importantly, his precise descriptions of the Supreme Lord's form, pastimes, and glories completely pacify the hearts of conditioned souls, awakening them from illusion and leading them to the highest spiritual ecstasy.
- Authoritative Descriptions of the Lord: Nārada Muni completely defeats māyāvādī speculation by providing factual, non-imaginary descriptions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's eternal form and characteristics.
- Principles of Varṇāśrama-dharma: By thoroughly describing the duties of the four varṇas and four āśramas, he establishes a practical societal framework designed solely for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord.
- Revealing Material Encagement: Through powerful allegorical descriptions, such as the history of King Purañjana, Nārada Muni exposes how the eternal spirit soul becomes unnecessarily entangled and encaged within the material body.
- Pacifying the Heart with Transcendental Knowledge: Hearing Nārada Muni's perfect descriptions brings deep comfort and enlightenment, instantly dispelling lamentation and invoking pure transcendental pleasure in the hearts of his listeners.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Nārada's Describing - Authoritative Instructions for Spiritual Enlightenment.
Pages in category "Narada's Describing"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- In his own book, known as Narada Pancaratra, Bhagavan Narada has very vividly described how to work to achieve the ultimate goal of life - devotion - through knowledge and through execution of the mystic yoga system
- In these three verses (SB 4.26.1-3) Narada Muni describes the position of the material body and the encagement of the living entity within it
- In this chapter Naradaji will describe how he was able to have a brief audience with the Lord while he was absorbed in the transcendental thought of separation from the Lord and when it was very painful for him
- In this verse (SB 4.27.11) the great sage Narada discloses that the character of Puranjana was being described to give lessons to King Pracinabarhisat. Actually the entire description was figuratively describing the activities of King Pracinabarhisat
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- Mayavadi philosophers say that we have to imagine the form of the Lord, but here Narada Muni does not say that. Rather, he gives the description of the Lord from authoritative sources
- My dear Vidura, I (Maitreya) have told you everything you wanted to know about the conversation between Narada and the Pracetas, the conversation describing the glories of the Lord. I have related this as far as possible
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- Narada describes his previous life to his disciple Vyasadeva. He says that while engaged as a boy servant for those purified devotees during the four months of their stay, he was intimately associating with them
- Narada describes, "Brahma first received the Vedic education from Krsna, as the clouds receive water from the ocean. That Vedic education or instruction which was spoken by Brahma to the world was then reposed upon the mountain of Sandipani Muni"
- Narada describes, "Sandipani Muni's instructions to Krsna are like a reservoir of water on the mountain, which flows as a river and goes again to mix with the source, the ocean of Krsna"
- Narada is described here as the most beloved son of Brahma because of good behavior, obedience, meekness and readiness to render service unto the father
- Narada Muni described to the boys (the Haryasvas) their ultimate goal of life and advised them not to become ordinary karmis to beget children. Thus all the sons of Daksa became enlightened and left, never to return
- Narada Muni first described brahmacarya, vanaprastha and sannyasa because he wanted to stress that sex is not at all necessary
- Narada Muni had described a woman who is a professional prostitute. The Haryasvas understood the identity of this woman
- Narada Muni has already described the desa (place) and kala (time). The kala has been described in verses twenty through twenty-four (SB 7.14.20-24), beginning with the words ayane visuve kuryad vyatipate dina-ksaye
- Narada Muni has already described the principles of life for a brahmacari, vanaprastha and sannyasi, and now (in SB 7.14.2) he is describing how a grhastha should live. The basic principle is to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Narada Muni has described Dhruva Maharaja as prabhu. This word is applicable to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Narada vibrates sounds describing the pastimes of the Supreme Lord. By such transcendental vibrations, such as Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, he fixes his mind at the lotus feet of the Lord
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- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Maharaja Yudhisthira, the best member of the Bharata dynasty, thus learned everything from the descriptions of Narada Muni. After hearing these instructions, he felt great pleasure from within his heart
- Such descriptions (of Lord's bodily features given by Narada Muni) should be accepted, and if they are painted, that is not imaginative painting
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- The description given by Narada Muni (in SB 4.8.46) is not imaginary
- The fall of the neophyte devotee from the path of Krsna consciousness down to material life is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.5.17) by Narada Muni
- The great sage Maitreya continued: My dear King Vidura, Sri Narada Muni, the son of Lord Brahma, thus described all these relationships with the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the Pracetas. Afterward, he returned to Brahmaloka
- The wonder of an atmosphere surcharged with devotional service to the Lord is briefly described herein (SB 1.5.23) by Sri Narada Muni. He was the son of the most insignificant parentage. He was not properly educated
- To pacify the mourning Yudhisthira, Narada first of all spoke from the philosophical point of view, and then he began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers, and thus began to describe as follows
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- When Devarsi Narada descended to instruct Sarvani Manu, he described the opulence of Bharata-varsa, India
- When his beauty, personal qualities, magnanimity, behavior, wealth and power were described by Narada in the court of Lord Indra, the celestial woman Urvasi was attracted to him
- When Krsna, who was already known to the Pandavas, was further described by Narada Muni to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead, naturally the Pandavas were amazed, thinking, "The SPG is with us as our cousin!" Certainly their ecstasy was extraordinary
- While all the Pracetas were executing religious rituals and sacrificial ceremonies and thus worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead for His satisfaction, the great sage Narada described the transcendental qualities of Dhruva Maharaja