Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 70
योगध्यानरतो नित्यं विष्णुभक्तिपरायणः । स कदाचित्तीर्थयात्रां कुर्वन्वैष्णवसत्तमः । अयोध्यामागतो विष्णुर्विष्णुःसाक्षाद्वसेदिति
yogadhyānarato nityaṃ viṣṇubhaktiparāyaṇaḥ | sa kadācittīrthayātrāṃ kurvanvaiṣṇavasattamaḥ | ayodhyāmāgato viṣṇurviṣṇuḥsākṣādvasediti
তেওঁ সদায় যোগ আৰু ধ্যানত ৰত আছিল, বিষ্ণুভক্তিত সম্পূৰ্ণ পৰায়ণ। সেই বৈষ্ণৱসত্তমে কেতিয়াবা তীৰ্থযাত্ৰা কৰিবলৈ ওলাই আহিল। তেওঁ অযোধ্যালৈ আহি মনতে ভাবিলে: “ইয়াত সাক্ষাৎ বিষ্ণু—প্ৰভু বিষ্ণু—বাস কৰে।”
Agastya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā (Sāketa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Vyāsa
Scene: Viṣṇuśarman, a meditative Vaiṣṇava pilgrim, arrives at Ayodhyā with staff and waterpot, eyes calm from yoga; in his thought-bubble/gesture is the resolve: ‘Here Viṣṇu dwells in person.’ The city’s temples and the river landscape welcome him.
FAQs
Bhakti matures into pilgrimage: the devotee seeks the Lord not only inwardly through meditation but outwardly by visiting the Lord’s cherished kṣetra.
Ayodhyā is glorified as a place where Viṣṇu is believed to dwell sākṣāt—personally and tangibly present.
Pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) is indicated, though no step-by-step rite is detailed in this verse.