Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 26
प्रमाणं कर्मभूतानां सुखदुःखोपपादने । सावधानतया यच्च जाग्रतां स्वपतामपि
pramāṇaṃ karmabhūtānāṃ sukhaduḥkhopapādane | sāvadhānatayā yacca jāgratāṃ svapatāmapi
இன்பத் துன்பங்களை உண்டாக்குவதில் கர்மமே அளவுகோலும் தீர்மானகரமும் ஆகும். அது தவறாத நியமத்துடன்—மனிதன் விழித்திருந்தாலும் உறங்கினாலும்—செயல்படுகிறது.
Unspecified (deduced: Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa narrating within a Māhātmya discourse)
Scene: A cosmic balance scale labeled ‘karma’ weighs two bowls marked sukha and duḥkha; below, two scenes: a person awake in action and the same person asleep, with the scale still operating above both.
FAQs
Karma is the governing principle behind joy and grief, functioning precisely regardless of one’s conscious state.
The instruction appears within the Śrīhāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya (Nāgarakhaṇḍa, Tīrthamāhātmya).
No explicit ritual; it is a doctrinal clarification about karmic causation.
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