Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 83
शुद्धिमेति यदा सर्वं नाडीचक्र मनाकुलम् । तदैव जायते योगी क्षमः प्राणनिरोधने
śuddhimeti yadā sarvaṃ nāḍīcakra manākulam | tadaiva jāyate yogī kṣamaḥ prāṇanirodhane
जेव्हा सर्व नाडीचक्र शुद्ध होऊन निराकुळ होते, तेव्हाच योगी प्राणनिरोध करण्यास खरोखर समर्थ होतो.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A yogin with a luminous network of nāḍīs depicted as fine golden lines; chakras as calm, unruffled lotuses; the breath shown as a steady vertical current.
FAQs
Prāṇa-restraint becomes stable only after purification of the inner channels; groundwork precedes higher yogic control.
The instruction appears within Kāśī’s scriptural landscape, where inner purification is aligned with Kāśī’s liberating dharma.
It implies the preparatory discipline of nāḍī-śuddhi as a prerequisite for prāṇa-nirodha.