Skandapurana 4.25.74.5

4.25.74.5

māhātmyaṃ tacchṛṇu mune kathyamānaṃ mayā'nagha .. 56 ..
guhyānāṃ paramaṃ guhyamavimuktamiheritam ..
tatra saṃnihitā siddhistatra nityaṃ sthito vibhuḥ .. 57 ..
bhūrloke naiva saṃlagnaṃ tatkṣetraṃ tvaṃtarikṣagam ..
ayogino na vīkṣaṃte paśyaṃtyeva ca yoginaḥ .. .. 58 ..
yastatra nivasedvipra saṃyatātmā samāhitaḥ ..
trikālamapi bhuṃjāno vāyubhakṣasamo bhavet .. 59 ..
nimeṣamātramapi yo hyavimukte'tibhaktibhāk ..
brahmacaryasamāyuktaṃ tena taptaṃ mahattapaḥ .. 4.1.25.60 ..
yastu māsaṃ vaseddhīro laghvāhāro jiteṃdriyaḥ ..
sarvaṃ tena vrataṃ cīrṇaṃ divyaṃ pāśupataṃ bhavet .. 61 ..
saṃvatsaraṃ vasaṃstatra jitakrodho jiteṃdriyaḥ ..
aparasvavipuṣṭāṃgaḥ parānnaparivarjakaḥ .. 62 ..
parāpavādarahitaḥ kiṃciddānaparāyaṇaḥ ..
samāḥ sahasramanyatra tena taptaṃ mahattapaḥ .. 63 ..
yāvajjīvaṃ vasedyastu kṣetramāhātmyavinnaraḥ ..
janmamṛtyu bhayaṃ hitvā sa yāti paramāṃ gatim .. 64 ..
na yogairyā gatirlabhyā janmāṃtaraśatairapi ..
anyatrahelayā sā'tra labhyeśasya prasādataḥ ..65..
brahmahā yo'bhigacchedvai daivādvārāṇasīṃ purīm ..
tasya kṣetrasya māhātmyādbrahmahatyā nivartate .. 66 ..
ādehapatanaṃ yāvadyovimuktaṃ na muṃcati ..
na kevalaṃ brahmahatyā prakṛtiśca nivartate .. 67 ..
ananyamānaso bhūtvā tatkṣetraṃ yo na muṃcati ..
sa muṃcati jarāmṛtyuṃ garbhavāsaṃ suduḥsaham .. 68 ..
avimuktaṃ niṣeveta devarṣigaṇasevitam ..
yadīcchenmānavo dhīmānna punarjananaṃ bhuvi .. 69 ..
avimuktaṃ na muṃceta saṃsārabhayamocanam ..
prāpya viśveśvaraṃ devaṃ na sa bhūyo'bhijāyate .. 4.1.25.70 ..

Hear that māhātmya, O sinless sage, as it is told by me: / Avimukta is declared here to be the supreme secret of secrets; / perfection is present there, and the all-pervading Lord resides there perpetually. / That sacred field is not connected to the earthly plane, but moves in the atmosphere; / non-yogins do not behold it, while yogins indeed see it. / A person who dwells there, O brahmin, self-controlled and concentrated, / even though eating thrice a day, becomes equal to one who lives on air alone. / One who has great devotion in Avimukta even for the duration of a blink, / has performed great austerity accompanied by celibacy. / A steadfast man who dwells [there] for a month, taking light food and subduing his senses, / has performed the entirety of the divine Pāśupata observance. / Residing there for a year, having conquered anger and controlled the senses, / not nourishing his limbs with others' wealth, avoiding food from others, / free from slandering others, and devoted to giving even a little, / he has performed great austerity equal to a thousand years elsewhere. / A man knowing the māhātmya of the sacred field who dwells there all his life, / abandoning fear of birth and death, attains the supreme destination. / That state which cannot be obtained elsewhere even in hundreds of other births by yogas, / is easily attained here through the grace of the Lord. / Even a slayer of a brahmin who happens by destiny to reach the city of Vārāṇasī, / is freed from the sin of slaying a brahmin by the māhātmya of that sacred field. / As long as one does not abandon Avimukta until the fall of the body, / not only the slaying of a brahmin, but material nature itself ceases [for him]. / He who, single-minded, does not abandon that sacred field, / abandons old age, death, and the unbearable dwelling in a womb. / A wise man should dwell in Avimukta, which is frequented by hosts of gods and seers, / if he desires not to be born again on earth. / One should not abandon Avimukta, which frees from the fear of transmigration; / having reached the god Viśveśvara, he is not born again.