Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 57
शुक्त्यां रजतबुद्धिश्च रज्जुबुद्धिर्यर्थोरणे । मरीचौ जलबुद्धिश्च मिथ्या मिथ्यैव नान्यथा
śuktyāṃ rajatabuddhiśca rajjubuddhiryarthoraṇe | marīcau jalabuddhiśca mithyā mithyaiva nānyathā
Croire voir de l’argent dans la nacre, un serpent dans une corde, ou de l’eau dans un mirage : tout cela est faux, faux seulement, et rien d’autre.
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages (deduced)
Tirtha: Kedāra-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A Himalayan hermitage near Kedāra: a teacher points to a rope on the ground mistaken as a snake; nearby a shell glints like silver; in the distance a mirage shimmers—symbolizing false cognition dissolving into clarity.
FAQs
Worldly misperceptions are like classic illusions; liberation requires discriminating the real from the falsely superimposed.
The verse occurs within Kedāra Khaṇḍa’s Kedāra setting, but it is a general teaching on illusion rather than a site-description.
None; it prescribes discernment (viveka) rather than a ritual act.