Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 160
न शब्दशास्त्राभिरतस्य मोक्षो न चैव रम्या वसथप्रियस्य । न भोजनाच्छादन तत्परस्य न लोकवित्त ग्रहणे रतस्य
na śabdaśāstrābhiratasya mokṣo na caiva ramyā vasathapriyasya | na bhojanācchādana tatparasya na lokavitta grahaṇe ratasya
لا فكاك لمن انغمس في علم الألفاظ وحده؛ ولا لمن تعلّق بالمساكن الوادعة؛ ولا لمن انصرف إلى الطعام والكساء؛ ولا لمن طاب له جمع ثروة الدنيا.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī (mokṣa-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mumukṣu-oriented audience in Kāśī
Scene: A scholar with palm-leaf manuscripts sets them aside, leaving a comfortable house behind; he walks toward a simple riverside seat in Kāśī, carrying only a water pot and rosary, turning inward in meditation.
FAQs
Mokṣa demands inner detachment; comfort-seeking, greed, and pride in mere learning obstruct liberation.
Kāśī is the implied mokṣa-kṣetra background, where liberation is linked with renunciation and right orientation.
No specific rite; it prescribes vairāgya—freedom from attachment to comfort, consumption, and wealth.