Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 26
मयेदृशो गृहस्थाय ह्यात्माऽयं न निवेदितः । निर्विकारो निर्विषयो निरीहो निरुपद्रवः
mayedṛśo gṛhasthāya hyātmā'yaṃ na niveditaḥ | nirvikāro nirviṣayo nirīho nirupadravaḥ
എന്നെപ്പോലെയുള്ള ഗൃഹസ്ഥനോട് ഈ ആത്മാവ് വെളിപ്പെട്ടില്ല—അത് നിർവികാരം, വിഷയാതീതം, നിരീഹം, നിരുപദ്രവം.
Brāhmaṇa/sage (first-person lament; collective voice continuing)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A householder devotee, with modest ornaments and sacred thread, sits among ascetics, expressing that the changeless Self was not revealed to him; the background suggests a tīrtha ghat and a quiet shrine.
FAQs
True knowledge points to the Self as unattached and undisturbed; worldly identity can veil this recognition unless purified by dharma and devotion.
Not named in this verse.
No direct prescription; it is doctrinal/philosophical description.