Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 70
योगध्यानरतो नित्यं विष्णुभक्तिपरायणः । स कदाचित्तीर्थयात्रां कुर्वन्वैष्णवसत्तमः । अयोध्यामागतो विष्णुर्विष्णुःसाक्षाद्वसेदिति
yogadhyānarato nityaṃ viṣṇubhaktiparāyaṇaḥ | sa kadācittīrthayātrāṃ kurvanvaiṣṇavasattamaḥ | ayodhyāmāgato viṣṇurviṣṇuḥsākṣādvasediti
तो नित्य योग-ध्यानात रत आणि विष्णुभक्तीत परायण होता. तो वैष्णवश्रेष्ठ कधीतरी तीर्थयात्रा करीत अयोध्येस आला, मनात निश्चय करून—“येथे साक्षात् विष्णु स्वयं वास करतात.”
Agastya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā (Sāketa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Vyāsa
Scene: Viṣṇuśarman, a meditative Vaiṣṇava pilgrim, arrives at Ayodhyā with staff and waterpot, eyes calm from yoga; in his thought-bubble/gesture is the resolve: ‘Here Viṣṇu dwells in person.’ The city’s temples and the river landscape welcome him.
FAQs
Bhakti matures into pilgrimage: the devotee seeks the Lord not only inwardly through meditation but outwardly by visiting the Lord’s cherished kṣetra.
Ayodhyā is glorified as a place where Viṣṇu is believed to dwell sākṣāt—personally and tangibly present.
Pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) is indicated, though no step-by-step rite is detailed in this verse.