Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 60
गच्छन्गायन्स्वपंस्तिष्ठञ्च्छयानोऽदन्पिबन्नपि । परितस्त्र्यक्षमैक्षिष्ट नान्यं भावं चिकेति सः
gacchangāyansvapaṃstiṣṭhañcchayāno'danpibannapi | paritastryakṣamaikṣiṣṭa nānyaṃ bhāvaṃ ciketi saḥ
ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಾ, ಹಾಡುತ್ತಾ, ನಿದ್ರಿಸುತ್ತಾ, ನಿಂತು, ಮಲಗಿ, ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಾ ಅಥವಾ ಕುಡಿಯುತ್ತಾ ಸಹ—ಅವನು ಸುತ್ತಲೂ ತ್ರ್ಯಕ್ಷನನ್ನೇ ಕಾಣುತ್ತಾನೆ; ಬೇರೆ ಯಾವ ಭಾವವನ್ನೂ ಅವನು ಅಂಗೀಕರಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrimage-inquirer (unspecified)
Scene: A montage-like scene: the same devotee walking along ghāṭas, singing, sleeping, standing in temple queue, eating—yet in each vignette Śiva’s three-eyed presence appears around him, indicating unbroken perception.
FAQs
Devotion becomes unbroken when every ordinary action is suffused with awareness of Śiva.
Kāśī’s spiritual atmosphere is implied as enabling constant Tryakṣa-darśana.
A practical vow of smaraṇa: maintaining remembrance of Śiva through all daily postures and actions.