Sage Narada always wanders around the earth and never
resides in a single location. It is said that the Narada is forced to wander
around the earth due to a curse by Daksha Prajapati. Brahma asked Daksha to
create subjects or living beings. He thus created Devas, hermits, Asuras,
serpents and numerous other living beings from his mind.
But none of the subjects created by Daksha Prajapati was
procreating. So he decided to create subjects through the coition of male and
female. He thus had five thousand sons by his wife Akini. They were called the
Haryasvas. They were to procreate but Sage Narada appeared before them. He
suggested to them that they were mere children and they did not have any
knowledge of the ways of the world. He told them that they had the power to go
up, down and sideways. So they should first try to find the beginning and end
of the universe.
They took the advice of Sage Narada and went in different
directions and never returned.
Daksha again begot thousand sons by Asikni and they were
called Sabalasvas.
Sage Narada again used the same trick and scattered them
around the universe.
Daksha could not tolerate the interference of Sage Narada and
got angry with Narada and cursed him to roam around the earth like his children
Haryasvas and Sabalasvas. From that day onward Sage Narada did not have a home
and became a permanent wanderer.
After this incident Daksha begot sixty daughters by Askini.
The daughters were given in marriage to various saints and Chandra, the moon
god. Procreation on earth took place naturally through them.
Sage Narada only wanted to make Daksha wise.
Daksha had the power to create but he was not doing it right as he was always
creating only males. New life on earth can only appear through females.