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Matsya Purana 183.30

Matsyapurāṇa 183.30

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183.30

avimukte guṇāye tu tathānyānapi tacchṛṇu.
śākaparṇāśino dāntāḥ saṃprakṣālyā marīcipāḥ .. 183.30 ..

Mahâdeva said:—‘Pârvatī! you are supremely dear to Me, I, therefore again continue the relation of the glories of Avimukta. Listen then with attention. It has endless glories. Those who reside here are superior to those who live on mere salads and have subdued their passions, live on raw grain sipping only as much water as remains on the tip of the kuśa blade and that too after a month, seated on the root of trees, sleeping on the slabs of stone, refulgent like the Sun, free from anger and thus virtuous in many ways. In other words, those practising austerities elsewhere, do not get so much perfection, and those living here are like those enshrined in heaven. O Pārvatī! as there is no one of the male being like Me, and no one of the female sex like you, similarly neither there is nor will there be, any place sacred like the Avimukta-tīrtha. Paramayoga, Paramagati and Paramamokṣa are obtained at Avimukta tīrtha, consequently there is no such place like this. Devī! now hear the most secret thing. One attains this Avimukta tīrtha, by virtue of the yoga practised during hundreds of lives. My devotee at this place attains yoga and emancipation, in course of one life. Devī! People coming here with unshaken devotion attain final beatitude. There is no such place, nor will there be any like it, on the earth. Dharma is always inherent there in its full form. People of all the four varṇas (castes) attain emancipation here."—28-41.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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