High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Narada or Narada Muni is a divine sage from the Vaisnava tradition, who plays a prominent role in a number of the Puranic texts, especially in the Bhagavata Purana, and in the Ramayana. Narada is the author of the P?ñcar?tra a standerd book for Vaisnava's priests which contain the technical and phylisophical meanings of the temple Deity worship. This book is very important for the Hare Krsna movement, since they belong to the same Guru-Sampradaya (a very long chain of spiritual masters) as Narada. Narada is portrayed as a travelling monk with the ability to visit distant worlds or planets, lokas in Sanskrit. He carries a musical instrument known as a Tampura, which he uses to accompany his singing of hymns, prayers and mantras as an act of devotion to his Lord,Sri Krsna, Vishnu.