Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 45
तस्माद्भौमेषु तीर्थेषु मानसेषु च नित्यशः । उभयेष्वपि यः स्नाति स याति परमां गतिम
tasmādbhaumeṣu tīrtheṣu mānaseṣu ca nityaśaḥ | ubhayeṣvapi yaḥ snāti sa yāti paramāṃ gatima
پس جو شخص ہمیشہ زمینی تیرتھوں میں بھی اور ذہنی تیرتھوں میں بھی غسل کرتا رہے، وہ اعلیٰ ترین منزلِ نجات کو پہنچتا ہے۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Mānasa-tīrtha (inner tīrtha) paired with Bhūma-tīrtha (outer tīrtha)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: A pilgrim at a ghāṭa performs snāna in the Gaṅgā while simultaneously visualizing a lotus-heart washed by a stream of light; outer water and inner radiance mirror each other.
FAQs
Outer pilgrimage and inner purification should be united; together they lead to the highest spiritual end.
Tīrthas in general—both earthly sites and the inner ‘Mānasa Tīrtha’—are praised.
Snāna (bathing) is prescribed in a dual sense: physical tīrtha-bath and continual inner ‘bathing’ through purity of mind.