Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 10
द्रष्टृत्वादि विहीनं च शब्दस्पर्शसमुज्झितम् । व्यपेतगंधरूपं च रसत्यक्तमदिङ्मुखम्
draṣṭṛtvādi vihīnaṃ ca śabdasparśasamujjhitam | vyapetagaṃdharūpaṃ ca rasatyaktamadiṅmukham
وہ ‘دیکھنے والے’ کی حالت اور اس جیسے اوصاف سے خالی تھا؛ آواز اور لمس سے محروم؛ بو اور صورت رخصت؛ ذائقہ بھی ترک—نہ کوئی سمت، نہ کوئی رخ۔
Skanda
Listener: Audience/sage
Scene: An abstract depiction of sense-withdrawal at cosmic scale: no ears, skin, nose, eyes, tongue—no directions; forms and fragrances evaporate into emptiness; the scene feels like a dissolving mandala of the senses.
FAQs
All sensory categories and even the sense of a perceiver dissolve—suggesting that ultimate reality (and the highest tīrtha teaching) lies beyond the senses.
None directly; it supports the cosmic preface to the Avimukta/Kāśī account.
None.