Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 76
भूर्लोकं जननी भक्त्या भुवर्लोकं तथा पितुः । गुरोः शुश्रूषणात्तद्वत्स्वर्लोकं च जयेत्कृती
bhūrlokaṃ jananī bhaktyā bhuvarlokaṃ tathā pituḥ | guroḥ śuśrūṣaṇāttadvatsvarlokaṃ ca jayetkṛtī
Durch Hingabe an die Mutter gewinnt der Tüchtige den Bhūrloka; durch Hingabe an den Vater den Bhuvarloka; und ebenso durch den Dienst am Guru den Svargaloka.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Frame audience of sages/pilgrims
Scene: A triptych: left panel mother with earth-lotus (Bhū), center father with mid-sky aura (Bhuva), right guru with radiant heaven-lotus (Sva); the devotee moves from left to right in reverent service.
FAQs
Devotion to mother, father, and guru is not merely social virtue—it is a spiritually cosmic discipline linked to attaining higher realms.
The verse functions within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī teaching tradition, presenting dharma as the inner ‘pilgrimage’ of the sacred city.
Bhakti to mother and father, and śuśrūṣā to the guru—devotional service as a prescribed dharmic practice.