Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 88
कल्पे कल्पे सृजामीश त्वन्नियोगबलाद्विभो । त्यज मायामिमां देव दुस्तरामकृतात्मभिः
kalpe kalpe sṛjāmīśa tvanniyogabalādvibho | tyaja māyāmimāṃ deva dustarāmakṛtātmabhiḥ
“اے ایش! ہر کَلپ میں میں تیری ہی حکم کی قوت سے، اے وِبھُو، تخلیق کرتا ہوں۔ اے دیو! اس مایا کو چھوڑ دے، جو بے قابو نفس والوں کے لیے پار کرنا نہایت دشوار ہے۔”
Brahmā
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A cosmic creator acknowledges he creates each kalpa by the Lord’s command and begs the Lord to withdraw the veiling māyā that the unmastered cannot cross; mood is austere and liberation-oriented.
FAQs
Creation operates under the Supreme Lord’s will; māyā is overcome not by status but by inner discipline and divine grace.
The Kāśī Khaṇḍa context glorifies Kāśī, but this verse itself is a metaphysical statement rather than a site-description.
No explicit rite; the implied practice is self-mastery and devotion as the means to cross māyā.