Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
तदेव हि परं ज्ञानं कामो येन प्रजायते । महत्तपस्तदेवाहुश्चातुमास्ये फलोत्तमम्
tadeva hi paraṃ jñānaṃ kāmo yena prajāyate | mahattapastadevāhuścātumāsye phalottamam
Das ist wahrlich das höchste Wissen, durch das das Begehren entsteht und bis zu seiner Wurzel erkannt wird. Das allein, so sagen sie, ist große Askese, die in der Zeit der Cāturmāsya die erlesenste Frucht trägt.
Skanda (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya didactic context)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A meditating ascetic watches a subtle chain: sense-object → thought → desire, depicted as translucent links dissolving into light; monsoon clouds mark Cāturmāsya, and a radiant fruit/lotus symbolizes ‘phalottama’.
FAQs
Know the causal roots of desire and discipline them; such insight itself becomes great tapas, ripening especially in Cāturmāsya.
No particular tīrtha is specified; the verse highlights the season (Cāturmāsya) as a sacred time that amplifies spiritual results.
Practice ‘great tapas’ during Cāturmāsya—understood as disciplined living supported by self-knowledge and restraint.