Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40
महेश्वरो वा मधुकैटभारिर्हृद्याश्रितो ध्यानमयोऽद्वितीयः । अभेदबुद्ध्या परमार्तिहंता रिपुः स एवातिप्रियो भवेत्ततः
maheśvaro vā madhukaiṭabhārirhṛdyāśrito dhyānamayo'dvitīyaḥ | abhedabuddhyā paramārtihaṃtā ripuḥ sa evātipriyo bhavettataḥ
महेश्वर असोत वा मधु-कैटभांचा संहारक—जो हृदयात वसलेला, ध्यानमय, अद्वितीय आहे—त्याचे अभेदबुद्धीने दर्शन घेतल्यास तो परम दुःखनाशक होतो; म्हणून शत्रूही अतिप्रिय ठरतो।
Narrative voice / doctrinal verse (speaker not explicit)
Listener: Brāhmaṇas (outer); Umā/participants in the inner narrative
Scene: A contemplative tableau: Śiva and Viṣṇu appear as two iconographic forms dissolving into a single luminous presence seated in the heart-lotus; an erstwhile enemy bows, transformed by non-dual insight.
FAQs
Seeing the Divine with abheda-buddhi (non-dual understanding) dissolves hostility and suffering; the One in the heart is beyond sectarian division.
No single tirtha is named in this verse; it serves as a doctrinal centerpiece within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya / Cāturmāsya teaching frame.
Meditative worship (dhyāna) on the indwelling advitīya reality is implied, rather than an external rite.