Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 49
शुक उवाच । ब्रह्मचर्येण चेन्मोक्षस्तत्षण्ढानां सदा भवेत् । गृहस्थाश्रमिणां चेत्स्यात्तत्सर्वं मुच्यते जगत्
śuka uvāca | brahmacaryeṇa cenmokṣastatṣaṇḍhānāṃ sadā bhavet | gṛhasthāśramiṇāṃ cetsyāttatsarvaṃ mucyate jagat
शुक उवाच—यदि ब्रह्मचर्येणैव मोक्षः स्यात्, तर्हि षण्ढानां सदा सुलभो भवेत्। यदि च गृहस्थाश्रमेणैव स्यात्, तर्हि सर्वं जगदेव मुक्तं स्यात्।
Śuka
Type: kshetra
Scene: A teaching assembly: Śuka, serene and austere, speaks with incisive logic; listeners include householders and ascetics, each confronted with the limits of identity-based claims to liberation.
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No single external life-condition guarantees mokṣa; liberation requires deeper realization and righteous living.
None is named in this verse; it is part of a doctrinal dialogue embedded in the Mahātmya setting.
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