Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 59
नारद उवाच । न त्वया दुष्कृतं किंचित्पूर्वदेहांतरे कृतम् । परं येन सुसंजातं तवेदं व्यसनं शृणु
nārada uvāca | na tvayā duṣkṛtaṃ kiṃcitpūrvadehāṃtare kṛtam | paraṃ yena susaṃjātaṃ tavedaṃ vyasanaṃ śṛṇu
നാരദൻ പറഞ്ഞു— “പൂർവ്വദേഹാന്തരത്തിൽ നീ യാതൊരു ദുഷ്കൃത്യവും ചെയ്തിട്ടില്ല. എന്നാൽ നിനക്കീ ദുരിതം വന്ന യഥാർത്ഥ കാരണമെന്തെന്ന് കേൾക്ക.”
Nārada
Type: kshetra
Scene: Nārada, serene and authoritative, reassures the distressed person: ‘No wrongdoing of yours; hear the true cause.’
FAQs
Not all suffering is presented as personal moral failure; dharma includes understanding deeper causes and receiving instruction from realized sages.
The verse is part of a tīrtha-māhātmya chapter, but this statement itself is narrative instruction and does not specify a site.
None explicitly; it introduces an explanation (nidāna) for the misfortune.