Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 17
किं पुनर्यो द्विषत्येनं लोकालोकप्रभुं हरिम् । स सुखी वर्तते कालं न निमेषं मतं मम
kiṃ punaryo dviṣatyenaṃ lokālokaprabhuṃ harim | sa sukhī vartate kālaṃ na nimeṣaṃ mataṃ mama
پھر جو اُس ہری سے—جو لوک اور اَلوک کا پروردگار ہے—دشمنی رکھے، اُس کا کیا حال؟ میرے نزدیک وہ ایک پل بھر بھی خوش نہیں رہ سکتا۔
Īśvara / Maheśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Kambu-tīrtha (context)
Type: ghat
Listener: Pārtha (implied across the passage)
Scene: A didactic moment: a divine figure admonishes against hatred of Hari; Hari appears as cosmic lord spanning manifest/unmanifest realms, while a hateful figure is shown restless and joyless.
FAQs
Hatred toward the divine sustainer destroys inner peace; well-being is inseparable from alignment with dharma.
No specific tīrtha is named; the verse functions as a universal ethical-theological maxim within the Revā Khaṇḍa.
None; it prescribes an inner discipline—freedom from hostility toward Hari—as essential to happiness.