Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
रवेर्बिंबमिदं भित्त्वा स योगी हरिजागरे । प्रयाति परमं स्थानं योगिगम्यं निरंजनम् । सांख्ययोगैः सुदुःखेन प्राप्यते यत्पदं हरेः
raverbiṃbamidaṃ bhittvā sa yogī harijāgare | prayāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yogigamyaṃ niraṃjanam | sāṃkhyayogaiḥ suduḥkhena prāpyate yatpadaṃ hareḥ
ذلك اليوغي، بسهره التعبّدي لهري، يشقّ قرص الشمس هذا ويبلغ المقام الأعلى—الذي يبلغه اليوغيون، الطاهر الذي لا دنس فيه—وهو مقام هري الذي لا يُنال عادةً إلا بمشقة عظيمة عبر السانكخيا واليوغا.
Narrator addressing a king (speaker not explicit in snippet; within Dvārakā Māhātmya discourse)
Tirtha: Harijāgaraṇa
Type: kshetra
Scene: A yogin-devotee in night vigil before Hari; above, a radiant solar disc is shown as a gate being ‘pierced’, revealing a stainless luminous realm of Viṣṇu beyond.
FAQs
Devotional vigil for Hari is extolled as an accessible path to the highest state, even beyond arduous ascetic systems.
Dvārakā, where the Māhātmya frames Hari’s worship and vigil as especially efficacious.
Harijāgaraṇa—keeping awake in devotion to Hari, praised as leading to the supreme abode.