Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 62
संमार्जनं च तस्याग्रे यः करोति समाहितः । यावत्यो रेणवस्तत्र तावद्वर्षशतानि सः । मोदते विष्णुलोकस्थो नात्र कार्या विचारणा
saṃmārjanaṃ ca tasyāgre yaḥ karoti samāhitaḥ | yāvatyo reṇavastatra tāvadvarṣaśatāni saḥ | modate viṣṇulokastho nātra kāryā vicāraṇā
جو کوئی یکسوئی کے ساتھ اُس کے حضور جھاڑو دے، وہاں جتنے گرد کے ذرّات ہوں اتنے ہی سو سو برس تک وہ وشنو لوک میں رہ کر مسرور رہتا ہے؛ اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
Narrator/Ṛṣi addressing the King (contextual speaker within Arbuda Khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Hṛṣīkeśa
Type: kshetra
Listener: nṛpa (king)
Scene: A devotee sweeps the temple forecourt before Hṛṣīkeśa, dust motes rising in sunbeams; the deity’s presence is felt from the sanctum; the scene emphasizes humility and luminous particles.
FAQs
Humble service like cleaning a sacred space is highly meritorious and leads to exalted posthumous joy in Viṣṇu’s realm.
The immediate precinct ‘before Him’—the Hṛṣīkeśa shrine area—where even dust becomes a measure of merit.
Saṃmārjana: sweeping/cleaning in front of the deity with a concentrated mind.