केदारं यातुकामस्य पुंसो निश्चितचेतसः । आजन्मसंचितं पापं तत्क्षणादेव नश्यति
kedāraṃ yātukāmasya puṃso niścitacetasaḥ | ājanmasaṃcitaṃ pāpaṃ tatkṣaṇādeva naśyati
जो पुरुष दृढ़ चित्त से केदार जाने का संकल्प करता है, उसके जन्म-जन्मांतर से संचित पाप उसी क्षण नष्ट हो जाते हैं।
Śiva
Tirtha: Kedāra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Aparṇā (Pārvatī)
Scene: A pilgrim stands at the threshold of departure, staff in hand, mind fixed on Kedāra; above, a vision of Kedāreśvara in snowy peaks appears. Dark smoke-like ‘pāpa’ dissolves instantly at the moment of resolve.
A sincere saṅkalpa (firm resolve) toward a sacred pilgrimage is itself spiritually transformative and purifying.
Kedāra is praised as a tīrtha whose very intention to visit grants purification.
Making a determined resolve to undertake Kedāra-yātrā is the implied prescription.