Skandapurana 4.25.74_1

4.25.74_1

vighrairāloḍyamānopi yo'vimuktaṃ na muṃcati ..
naiḥśreyasī śriyaṃ prāpya duḥkhāṃtaṃ sodhigacchati .. 75 ..
mahāpāpaughaśamanīṃ puṇyopacayakāriṇīm ..
bhuktimuktipradāmaṃte ko na kāśīṃ sudhīḥ śrayet .. 76 ..
evaṃ jñātvā tu medhāvī nāvimuktaṃ tyajennaraḥ ..
avimuktaprasādena vimukto jāyate yataḥ .. 77 ..
avimuktasya māhātmyaṃ ṣaḍbhirvaktraiḥ kathaṃ mayā ..
vaktuṃ śakyaṃ na śaknoti sahasrāsyopi yatparam .. 78 .. ..
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ caturthe kāśīkhaṃḍe pūrvārddhe skaṃdāgastyadarśanaṃ nāma paṃcaviśatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 25 .. ..

Even when agitated by obstacles, one who does not abandon Avimukta, / having obtained supreme splendor, reaches an end to suffering. / Who of sound intellect would not resort to Kāśī, which calms the flood of great sins, / produces an accumulation of merit, and in the end grants enjoyment and liberation? / Knowing this, an intelligent man should not leave Avimukta, / for by the grace of Avimukta one becomes liberated. / How can I declare with six mouths the māhātmya of Avimukta, / when even the thousand-mouthed one is unable to do so fully? // Thus ends the twenty-fifth chapter, named 'The Meeting of Skanda and Agastya', in the first half of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.