Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 58
भूर्लोके नैव संलग्नं तत्क्षेत्रं त्वंतरिक्षगम् । अयोगिनो न वीक्षंते पश्यंत्येव च योगिनः
bhūrloke naiva saṃlagnaṃ tatkṣetraṃ tvaṃtarikṣagam | ayogino na vīkṣaṃte paśyaṃtyeva ca yoginaḥ
«تلك البقعة المقدّسة ليست حقّاً مقيدةً بعالم الأرض؛ بل تسير في الفضاء الأوسط، وراء الإدراك المعتاد. غيرُ اليوغيين لا يبصرونها، أمّا اليوغيون فيبصرونها حقّاً».
Skanda
Tirtha: Avimukta
Type: kshetra
Listener: muni
Scene: Two layers of Kāśī: an ordinary cityscape faintly visible to common people, and a radiant, floating ‘mid-space’ Avimukta visible to yogins—shown as a luminous mandala above the ghats, with yogins gazing inward.
FAQs
A tīrtha has an outer geography and an inner, subtle reality—only disciplined yogic awareness perceives its fullest truth.
Avimukta-kṣetra (Kāśī), described as transcending ordinary earthly limitation.
No explicit ritual; the implied discipline is yoga (inner purification and concentration) to ‘see’ the kṣetra’s true nature.