Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 70
योगध्यानरतो नित्यं विष्णुभक्तिपरायणः । स कदाचित्तीर्थयात्रां कुर्वन्वैष्णवसत्तमः । अयोध्यामागतो विष्णुर्विष्णुःसाक्षाद्वसेदिति
yogadhyānarato nityaṃ viṣṇubhaktiparāyaṇaḥ | sa kadācittīrthayātrāṃ kurvanvaiṣṇavasattamaḥ | ayodhyāmāgato viṣṇurviṣṇuḥsākṣādvasediti
وہ ہمیشہ یوگ اور دھیان میں مشغول رہتا اور وشنو بھکتی میں سراسر منہمک تھا۔ وہ ویشنوؤں میں افضل ایک بار تیرتھ یاترا پر نکلا۔ وہ ایودھیا آیا اور دل میں سوچا: “یہاں تو ساکشات وشنو—خود پرمیشور وشنو—قیام پذیر ہیں۔”
Agastya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā (Sāketa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Vyāsa
Scene: Viṣṇuśarman, a meditative Vaiṣṇava pilgrim, arrives at Ayodhyā with staff and waterpot, eyes calm from yoga; in his thought-bubble/gesture is the resolve: ‘Here Viṣṇu dwells in person.’ The city’s temples and the river landscape welcome him.
FAQs
Bhakti matures into pilgrimage: the devotee seeks the Lord not only inwardly through meditation but outwardly by visiting the Lord’s cherished kṣetra.
Ayodhyā is glorified as a place where Viṣṇu is believed to dwell sākṣāt—personally and tangibly present.
Pilgrimage (tīrthayātrā) is indicated, though no step-by-step rite is detailed in this verse.