Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 99
तत्र जागरणं कृत्वा चतुर्दश्यामुपोषिताः । प्राप्नुवंति परं ज्ञानं यत्रकुत्रापि वै मृताः
tatra jāgaraṇaṃ kṛtvā caturdaśyāmupoṣitāḥ | prāpnuvaṃti paraṃ jñānaṃ yatrakutrāpi vai mṛtāḥ
جو وہاں جاگَرَن کرتے اور چَتُردَشی کے دن اُپواس رکھتے ہیں، وہ اعلیٰ ترین گیان پاتے ہیں—خواہ اُن کی موت کہیں بھی ہو۔
Skanda
Type: kshetra
Scene: Devotees keep an all-night vigil near a Śiva shrine: lamps burning steadily, fasting ascetics and householders seated in meditation and chanting; dawn approaches as a symbol of dawning knowledge; death is depicted as a distant, powerless shadow.
FAQs
A single sincere observance in Kāśī can grant liberating knowledge whose power is not limited by where one later dies.
The Kāśī shrine-area referred to as ‘there’ in this chapter’s Oṃkāra-liṅga context.
Caturdaśī upavāsa (fasting) and jāgaraṇa (night vigil) performed at the sacred spot.