Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 11
इत्थं सत्यंधतमसि सूचीभेद्ये निरंतरे । तत्सद्ब्रह्मेति यच्छ्रुत्या सदैकं प्रतिपाद्यते
itthaṃ satyaṃdhatamasi sūcībhedye niraṃtare | tatsadbrahmeti yacchrutyā sadaikaṃ pratipādyate
अशा सत्यघन अंधकारात—जो निरंतर असून जणू सूईनेच भेदता येईल—श्रुती ‘तत् सत् ब्रह्म’ असे म्हणत सदैव एकमेव सत्य प्रतिपादित करते।
Skanda
Tirtha: Avimukta (Kāśī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience/sage
Scene: From needle-pierceable dense darkness emerges the certainty of one Reality: a single steady light (sat-brahman) shining without source; the darkness remains but is ‘known through’ by śruti—like a lamp of knowledge in a void.
FAQs
Beyond dissolution and darkness, the Veda affirms a single, enduring Reality—Sat/Brahman—grounding the Mahātmya in transcendent theology.
Not explicitly; it provides the metaphysical foundation upon which Kāśī’s liberating greatness will be explained.
None.