Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 67
प्रयाणं कुर्वते यस्य प्राणा मे मुक्तिमंडपे । समामनुप्रविष्टोत्र तिष्ठेद्यावदहं खलु
prayāṇaṃ kurvate yasya prāṇā me muktimaṃḍape | samāmanupraviṣṭotra tiṣṭhedyāvadahaṃ khalu
যাৰ প্ৰাণ মোৰ মুক্তি মণ্ডপত প্ৰস্থান কৰে, মই নিজেই সিহঁতৰ সৈতে তাত প্ৰৱেশ কৰোঁ আৰু যিমান দিন মই ইচ্ছা কৰোঁ, সেই আত্মাৰ সৈতে তাতেই অৱস্থিত থাকোঁ।
Skanda
Tirtha: Mukti Maṇḍapa (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Traditional interlocutor (often Pārvatī)
Scene: A dying devotee in Mukti Maṇḍapa, surrounded by lamps and quiet attendants; subtle, compassionate manifestation of Śiva entering with the departing prāṇas—shown as a luminous presence guiding a small soul-light upward, remaining beside it.
FAQs
Kāśī is portrayed as a direct sphere of divine grace, where the Lord personally accompanies the departing soul toward liberation.
The Mukti Maṇḍapa in Kāśī, a liberation-conferring sacred precinct.
Not a ritual but an eschatological teaching: the supreme benefit of departing (dying) within the Mukti Maṇḍapa.