Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 91
स्कंद उवाच । निशम्याख्यानमतुलमेतत्प्राज्ञः प्रयत्नतः । निष्पापो जायते मर्त्यो नोपसर्गैः प्रबाध्यते
skaṃda uvāca | niśamyākhyānamatulametatprājñaḥ prayatnataḥ | niṣpāpo jāyate martyo nopasargaiḥ prabādhyate
Skanda dit : «L’homme avisé qui écoute avec attention ce récit sacré, incomparable, devient sans péché, et nulle affliction ni obstacle funeste ne peut accabler ce mortel».
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (via māhātmya-śravaṇa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya (and the implied assembly of sages)
Scene: Skanda teaching: the divine narrator proclaims that attentive hearing of the incomparable account makes a mortal sinless and immune to ominous afflictions; listeners sit in reverent stillness.
FAQs
Śravaṇa (devout listening) to Kāśī’s sacred narrative purifies sin and grants protective spiritual resilience against misfortunes.
Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) through its māhātmya, whose hearing itself is declared meritorious.
The implied practice is śravaṇa—hearing the sacred account with attention and effort.