Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 24
सुकृतं मनसि ध्यात्वा यैर्नरैः पूजितो हरिः । आस्तां तेषां वरारोहे दर्शनं स्पर्शनं तथा । स्मरणादपि मुच्यंते नराः पापैः पुराकृतैः
sukṛtaṃ manasi dhyātvā yairnaraiḥ pūjito hariḥ | āstāṃ teṣāṃ varārohe darśanaṃ sparśanaṃ tathā | smaraṇādapi mucyaṃte narāḥ pāpaiḥ purākṛtaiḥ
جو لوگ دل میں نیکی کے پُنّیہ کا دھیان کر کے ہری کی پوجا کرتے ہیں، اے خوش اندام خاتون، اُنہیں دیدار یا لمس کا سہارا بھی نہیں چاہیے؛ صرف یاد کرنے سے ہی انسان پرانے کیے ہوئے گناہوں سے آزاد ہو جاتے ہیں۔
Śiva (deduced; speaking within a tīrtha-mahātmya discourse, yet referencing Hari)
Listener: A Devī addressed as ‘varārohe/sundarī’ (Pārvatī-like interlocutor)
Scene: A devotee seated in meditation, visualizing Hari in the heart-lotus; sins depicted as dark chains dissolving into light without any external temple scene.
FAQs
Devotional memory itself is purifying: sincere worship and remembrance can cleanse even ancient karmic stains.
No single site is named; the verse generalizes the tīrtha-bhakti principle that remembrance and devotion carry purificatory power.
Worship of Hari supported by inner meditation on sukṛta; additionally, smaraṇa (remembrance) is presented as an efficacious practice.