Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 39
यद्वाचि नाम तव कामदमब्जनेत्र यच्छ्रोत्रयोस्तव कथा मधुराक्षराणि । यच्चित्तभित्तिलिखितं भवतोस्ति रूपं नीरूपभूपपदवी नहि तैर्दुरापा
yadvāci nāma tava kāmadamabjanetra yacchrotrayostava kathā madhurākṣarāṇi | yaccittabhittilikhitaṃ bhavatosti rūpaṃ nīrūpabhūpapadavī nahi tairdurāpā
اے کنول نین پروردگار! جن کی زبان پر تیرا مرادیں پوری کرنے والا نام ہے، جن کے کانوں میں تیری شیریں حروف والی کتھا ہے، اور جن کے دل کی دیوار پر تیرا روپ نقش ہے—ان کے لیے بے صورت بادشاہی مرتبہ پانا دشوار نہیں۔
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Threefold tableau: a devotee chanting the Name, another listening to a storyteller reciting Hari-kathā, and the same devotee meditating with Viṣṇu’s form vividly inscribed on the inner wall of the mind; a subtle doorway opens to a luminous formless realm.
FAQs
Devotion through speech (nāma), hearing (kathā), and inner remembrance (smaraṇa) becomes a direct path to liberation.
The verse is situated in Kāśī Khaṇḍa’s teaching environment; it does not directly name a particular Kāśī tirtha.
Practice of nāma-japa, śravaṇa (hearing sacred stories), and dhyāna/smaraṇa (mental inscription of the Lord’s form) is recommended.