Skandapurana 7.18.89_135

7.18.89_135

kīdṛśaṃ tatparaṃ yogaṃ jñānaṃ pāśupataṃ śubham .
yajjñātvā2 brāhmaṇāḥ siddhāḥ prāpnuyurmokṣamuttamam .
iti3 pṛṣṭastu śiṣyeṇa provāca munisattamaḥ ..3 . .
sanatkumāra uvāca
sādhu vyāsa mahābuddhe mumukṣurasi putraka .
yanmāṃ pṛcchasi tajjñānaṃ yogaṃ māheśvaraṃ param ..4. .
sarvāsāṃ yogavidyānāṃ yattattvaṃ parikīrtyate .
sāṃkhyayogāgamopetāḥ sarvādhyātmaviśāradāḥ .. 5. .
yogaiśvaryamapi prāpya tattvaṃ naivopalebhire .
yadabuddhvā mahābhāga jñānaṃ śaṅkarabhāṣitam .. 6. .
tadyathā kathitaṃ teṣāṃ tryambakeṇa4 divaukasām .
tattehaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi saṃkṣepāttattvaniścayam . .7. .
vistareṇa na tacchakyaṃ vaktuṃ varṣaśatairapi .
tasyāhaṃ sthi?tapakṣantu saṃsārotpattināśanam . .8..

Of what kind is that supreme yoga, the auspicious Pāśupata knowledge,
knowing which the accomplished brahmins may attain the highest liberation?
Having been thus asked by his disciple, the best of sages spoke:
Sanatkumāra said:
Well done, O Vyāsa of great intellect! You desire liberation, my son,
since you ask me about that knowledge, the supreme Māheśvara yoga.
That reality which is proclaimed the essence of all yoga traditions,
endowed with the teachings of Sāṃkhya and Yoga, skilled in all internal knowledge,
even having attained the lordly powers of yoga, they did not reach that reality,
not having understood, O fortunate one, the knowledge taught by Śaṅkara.
As it was told by Tryambaka to those dwellers of heaven,
I shall tell you that ascertainment of reality in brief.
It is impossible to describe it in detail even in hundreds of years;
its steady side, destroying the origin of saṃsāra,